[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Skybird

^That bad...?

Actually I would keep using it but they made the decision easier for me. I recently had a reformat and when I went to reload FSX it was gone! I'm still in the process of talking to Steam about it but it seems the outcome is going to be that I can't restore it to my PC. To make matters worse my Activation Key is also somehow missing. They said I need to talk to the the manufacturer about that, but in this case they are the manufacturer. If I get everything back, great. If not, I won't fight them. I'll just say goodbye and good riddance.

And I came to this math:

I completely agree. The money spent is well worth it. I just want to own the game, not rent it with their kind permission.

If you are worried about your privacy, as far as I know SAteam is not as penetrant as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and the likes. And you could set up a dual boot on your rig: one for gaming only, and one for anything else. That way, you can leave steam bypassed and "off" as long as you do not need it.

It's not the privacy so much as the feeling I get knowing the game producer is monitoring exactly how much I play the game. On my personal Steam Profile page they even tell me the number of hours I've played it.

I've been thinking of a dual-boot, more because I prefer Windows 8.1 for all my work, but Win 10 works better for gaming. In fact I was trying exactly that when Win 10, rather than accept the partition I assigned to it, took over the primary partition and installed itself there anyway. Before I can put Win 8.1 in the second partition I have to get a new DVD drive, as mine chose this week to die on me.

But I learned that there are reasons why I could tolerate this one actor.

Same here. As I said, if they cooperate and restore it I'll continue to use them. It all hinges on that, at least for me.

Certain others I will never tolerate. Microsoft for example gives new reasons every week to hate. Almost every day.

Again I agree, but I'm too old and too stupid/stubborn/lazy to go through all that trouble.

BTW, I still see FSX DVD boxes with both patches or addons or what it was in the shops. It seems they still get produced. But it seems there are issues under Windows 10. Dual boot may be the answer.

It's true. With Steam I've had no Win 10 problems. On the other hand Prepar3d is a rewrite of the FSX engine and runs all the old aircraft models under a much-improved environment. The bad news there is that the latest version, v4, is 64-bit. It's even better, but won't run the older FSX planes. So I have to decide between v3, which keeps the old stuff at 32-bit, or v4, which is newer and better but loses the old stuff. I also have X-Plane 11, so my options aren't exactly limited.

But I've gone a bit far from a discussion about Steam's new interface. Sorry about that.