I'm not particularly fond of Steam. I play the Total War series as well and they require Steam even for the disk installs so I have it. I never would have gotten any Silent Hunter game had they not advertised them though so I can't gripe too loud. (When you start Steam to play a game they pop up ads for the stuff they have on special. I read them just to see what I'm missing because I don't buy PC Gamer or anything like that.) I ended up getting SH3 for like $4.99 and SH4 and U-boats for $7.99 or so purely because they were running ads for them.
The other thing that Steam does that I appreciate is make it so that I don't have to carry disks around. I travel a lot and actually left my cds at home when I went over-seas for six weeks. Because a good portion of my games are on Steam I didn't have to do anything illegal to play. Reinstalls aren't required, moving computers is just copying the steamapps directory across and remembering what that password that you saved three years ago and haven't typed since is.
Again, not too fond of Steam; playing games with no internet connection is often trying. But they've been a net positive as far as I'm concerned and you can most definitely have version 1.5 of SH4 as a Steam game.
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