Dawn Of War 2 won’t run without Internet connection

Rohnur

and @ Ceser Phantom RR

The sytem requirements are there so you dont waste your money on a game you cant play? or did you not read the back . . .

Rohnur

I for one congratulate Steam. Sure, so you have to wait a little longer to play your game, but, it clearly says in big as red writing “Internet Required” on the box. Piracy funds terrorism. Our troops are fighting terrorists and bleeding to protect us. And you all complain about waiting a few hours/days just to play a game. Piracy is also a fairly large factor in destroying economies, do your damn part. GJ Steam.

Ceser Phantom RR

I know how you feel, im probly the only person in my high school that has the internet but cant play Call Of Duty: MW2, I recenly got intersted in the game, but beacuse i dont have the goddam system reqiurments i cant even play the *******, i cant even get my money back, personlly I want to kill the ****** who said “you should need system requirments”, WHY, I ASK, WHY?, consles (E.G PSP, PS3, PS2, Ect.) Dont even need system requirments, it sould only be for the net that you need the requirments, not the whole game, waste of money for me, i wouldnt cae if i could get my money back, but i cant, i wont kill anyone im just expressing how im feeling

Down with Steam

Look this is bullshit Steam support does not have any contact number I emailed them with a problem took 1 and a half weeks for them to fix it. (lost Password) Then it says my cd key is a duplicate waiting again for prob another week watch there gonna ask for proof of purchase the game was bought like a year ago I don’t have it. This is crap instead or spending money on shit like steam spend it on punishing people for pirating not the legitimate buyers you dumb f’s. I have owned 8 f’n wireless routers none of them provide 24/7 stable connection so what the f am I to do when I cant connect. Also I go through phases I play one game for months then stop for several months only to come back to it. I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to play a game I bought for 50$ now your gonna have to jump through hoops to get me to buy another steam game so far supreme commander 2, left for dead 2, and dow 2 exp, you have sold atleast one less copy. Prob hundreds

desperate to play DoW2 !!!

hi all , just a small query , i have done everything the game has asked of me , downloaded all the “steam” nonsence , created a windows live log-in , connected to the internet and downloaded the patch etc . but when i go into steam it says dawn of war 2 is “100% ready to play” , i click launch ….. i hear the hard drive making noise like its trying to access something , but nothing happens . literally nothing . no error messages , and no game
any one else ever got this or is it just me ?

F-Minus

In this industry you can’t make anything right as it seems. If the game is patched it’s wrong – if it isn’t patched it’s wrong too.

As said by the Relic rep, you can get into offline mode with Steam where the internet connection is not required. Next, you can right click on your game go to “Properties” -> “Updates” and select, “Do not automatically update this game” and be done with updates if you want to play unpatched games.
Now I don’t know if you need to update before the first launch right after install, but I would assume you can avoid the patching.

Now if you think that is a hassle, then by all means get a console and stay away from a PC, as this is not a toy with 5 buttons – it requires some basic understanding and once you have that you can fix a lot of problems mentioned above within few seconds.

Next, I’m wondering what game boxes you have, on my it clearly says “requires online activation” albeit in my own language. That said, the game does not require you to have an internet connection only for the first activation, for everything else there is Steams offline mode.

Windows Live is a pain occasionally, but if I buy a Need For Speed game, I have to go through EA’s bullshit registrations on Gamespy and patcher. All major games have more or less some kind of registration process, and if this 10 seconds is too much to ask from users then the world is better of dead.

And frankly it’s 2010, everything will slowly but surely require an internet connection, not only games. If you can’t afford a reliable connection, you can’t afford computer games, if you can’t find a good provider in your vicinity well you’re out of luck.

I too live in a house where there is no room for a pool, but I won’t cry to pool fabricators why their pools require so much space that I can’t have one on this location.

Antennababa

To all those shlepps advocating internet connections -go take a flying FUG!!
I’m in India and for the past 3 days been trying to play this stupid game —but for the download shite thats happening evryday!!!(ive got my DSL d/l ing at 112Kbps for 3 nights in a row..but hey -o no cigar!
All balls!

Casey

@Zmobchomper

You know what’s a *better* distribution service? Going to a fucking store and buying the damn thing.

The fucking box I *just* bought does not say I need internet access in order to play this damn game. However, here I am, trying to play the Campaign mode and I get swamped with retarded Windows LIVE setup processes.

Zmobchomper

You guys are all a bunch of fucking whiners. Dial-up internet isn’t even that much cheaper than DSL, nowadays. You can get a quality DSL line for around $10 a month. Unless you’re paying for your dial-up in cents, you’re probably going to get better product for your money if you make the switch to a *MODERN* internet connection.

Steam is an excellent content distribution service. Their servers are almost never down, and when they are, it’s only for a few minutes. Their servers are fast(2mb/s downloads!) and the client is reliable. It’s not a resource hog or intrusive in any way. iTunes will rape your computer more than Steam will.

As a few other people have stated, if you have the money to buy these games, and if you have the money to buy a computer that can handle it, you have the money to pay for decent, not even blazing fast, internet.

Get off your high horse and realize that with dial-up and a mindset stuck in the 1990s means you’re the lowest common denominator and no one’s pandering specifically to you. Get with the times.

Max

Yeah, I totally agree. I just bought DoW2 Chaos Rising and something is wrong with the Windows Live server. This has NOTHING to do with my internet connection. Windows Live has an error at the moment and I have to wait for them to get off their @$$ to play. The more I think about it, the more pissed off I get. To require internet connection to play campaign or skirmish (which is really all I do) is ridiculous but I put up with it. But even then, if there’s an error or something is wrong with the servers during your initial installation then you are shit out of luck. I wish I had known that gameplay depends on a company to keep its servers up and running…Now, I cant log in to authenticate it but since its installed, I cant even play the original Dow2…I just paid 40 bucks to be screwed out of playing not one but two games. Relic/THQ, you just lost a loyal customer and I will definitely spread my experience to the rest of my friends. I for one am not putting up with this BS anymore.

tangosix

Maybe there is some consumer law that would allow us to file a class action lawsuit and get our money back for this crappy product that we can’t enjoy unless there is an Internet connection.

tangosix

I am not buying anymore PC games until they stop this abusive stupid policies against legitimate consumers. If I buy a games I want to able to play it regardless weather there is Internet connection or not. I am returning this game back to the store for not specifying that an internet connection is required.

PWC

Haha what. It says right on the box Internet connection required. Steam is a client that pretty much only works while online, with the ability to go into offline mode.

So for those who didn’t read that it requires an internet connection and thought “oh hey my dial up should work” or “why does it need an internet connection” needs to reconnect a few dots.

Rich enough to buy a game, rich enough to buy an internet. A decent non-dial up non-cable connection isn’t even that expensive.

Also steam isn’t hard to work. You download the client, install. You download/install the game, run. Patch. Done. Its not a fault of the game but the gamer.

Sty

I just can’t get the whole steam/dow 2/live thing to work. I actually wanted a nice stand alone game to wean me off WOW. The reason I buy games is as one poster says because I am working I am relatively cash rich and time poor. This is now causing me to be time poor, trying to sort this mess (still with no joy and rubbish support) I am now going to invest time getting cracked versions, cracked updates and be sure not to give any of my wages to the whole steam bandwagon ever again. once bitten, twice shy. (bet they didn’t include that in their sales pitch to all the devs)

Anthony Lee

If the keep putting Steam on the Dawn of War series, they might as well stop producing them all together.

Jonathan

I think that this is a great idea. Whoever has a computer capable of playing Dawn of war II obviously has an Internet connection. And can quite easily connect to steam in order to run the game. The only people that should be bothered by this are the people that are trying to steal it.

Games for Windows live was a failed attempt at stopping piracy. I have a very simple way of playing all games for windows live Games online for free. Except for this one because it requires steam.

I can understand someone that always buys their games being a little annoyed that they have to be “treated like a criminal”. But to be perfectly honest. Almost every PC gamer downloads at least some of their video games if they’re not too sure they actually want to buy it.

Who doesn’t like a full version demo:)

Dosu

Well found that out on the first day , the game isnt bad , the graphic is great and all of that but oldies are goldies im playing Dawn of War with all addons ^^.

diablo SUCKS

diablo u **** !!! no one is as fecking “rich” as you!!! feelng rich? suck my ass

diablo

are u srs? its 2010 and ur still on dialup..

steams fine with a half decent internet connection so stop complaining and realise that perhaps its your problem.

Maiykl

This is horrible ! I want play DoW2 at my cottage (without internet connection) and I CAN’T !!! Because of “Steam” and “Windows Live” …. I Hate them and now I hate the game …. It’s annoying to connect the internet cable and login every time I want play !!!

Panicy Button

Hate this, I feel like a tool.

Just bought Dawn of War 2, saw the nice shiny box with decent requirements only to bring it home to discover it uses steam. Its one of those games you never knew existed, now I wish I could get a refund on this piece of garbage but the sad truth is you can’t.

To make matters worse there is no offline mode its constantly connected to the net, the packaging was deceiving no where stating steam comes with it.

Anyone considering buying this that hates steam as I do, stay away from this product.

mcspanky

Well today was the last day I wrote exams and the summer vacation beginning and all, I went and bought me a copy of DOW2 and and and and yeah I TOTALLY BLEW IT, the game wasn’t working and found that it was not just me who suffered. I was so mad I pounded my keyboard to shit and had to use my brother’s. And steams loser stupid weak ass support was making me so MAD I screamt all day like a chimp with hemariods. I got a cracked one from a buddy just a few minutes ago and im telling you NEVER will I buy a game agian down of war 2 brought up grief and dispaer. and all Thanks To Steam you worthless sons of bitches

greedybastards

All you guys said it…
1) taking forever to download and install. wat? what did i buy the dvd for then???
2) couldn’t even return it to retailer.
3) log in and face pop up ads on steam (too much of this crap from explorer)

some one said, “You can put Steam in offline mode, and use an offline profile with GFWL.”
so, i have to buy the disk to get online to set up a profile with Steam to download & install the game then setup a profile with Windows Live and to play the game keep a steam client running…

4) waaaaaaay tooooooooooo much trouble to play a game! A GAME PPL, A GAME!
…waste of 40 bucks…

SCREW STEAM! WILL NEVER, EVER BUY STEAM/WINDOWS LIVE GAMES!

HitPat

First I downloaded the game from TPB and after getting about half way through, it being such a good game and all, I felt bad and I want and bought a copy, this steam™ crap SUCKS! I wish I had never bought the game, the don’t deserve the money.

Its an awesome game, but nothing, NOTHING, is worth ThaT much trouble!!!

kleverbear

I wish i would have read this before making my first pc-game purchase. I bough this game to play on my laptop on an 8hr trip only to be stuck with nothing because there is no internet on the freeway. This was supposed to show me how great Pc games are, is what i was told. BS I am not ever going to buy another pc game there’s to much crap to play the damn campaign mode. This blows I asked for my money back from THQ.

dawn of war fan

i got a man to come and do it.pc world are really good at doing stuff to the computer see ya bye.

dawn of war fan

don’t be mad about steam its not that bad (:. it just a game.

dawn of war fan

i now how to get dawn of war working . when you got your computer upgraded the internet connection will not be conected.so get some one to come from pc word to do it.

SOHAIL

I really hate STEAM> next time I will not buy any game that requires STEAM.

Perfectshot1994

Steam is absolutely retarded. There is no other way to put it. I have the SLOWEST dial-up I have ever seen (500 bytes/sec) and I don’t want to have to download a damn patch just to play the game. Sure, I can go over to my friend’s house and get it, but that takes time and gas money I don’t have (spent it all on the f-ing game). I had no idea that you even needed internet to install it, so call me a moron and shoot me.

Ardias13

I have no respect for steam whatsoever because they’re really trying to kill legitimate gamers and they especially screwed Dawn of War.

steam_can_kis_my_a$$

some ppl want to go on without fucking logging in to two things when u go online it causes lag (not 4 me but for my friends witch causes me to lag) why cant we play on the disc like regular games dawn of war 1 had a simple (installation) dawn of war fans will be pissed off cause of the fucking 6 steps.
1.install 3496 mb
2.kis steams as by updating sht that will keeping on restarting after 100%
3.u will not problly make pas step 2 but if u do u hav to be online
4.kis windoes lives as
5.create accounts 4 sht
6.(u sold tha game back already)

ps. dont waste your $50 bucks
ps pt 2 tell yo firends who will buy dawn of war 2 we must boycott the game so our problem can be resovled
fck u steam this is a problem with all steam games
took me 1 week 8 hours a day to finnaly get to fckin play the game
steam yo engine sucks ass 4 real change yo gay update ways!

Jeff

As I type this I’m sat staring waiting for DoW2 to get going, it’s been almost an hour now of messing about. Last time I tried Steam was with the Half Life 2 release day fiasco but back then I was on 56k modem. Now I’m on a fast internet connection and I’m still sat about waiting.

I don’t have anything against Relic or the game, I have issue with Steam. I’ve never downloaded a game before, but next time a game I’m really interested in comes out on Steam, I WILL be visiting isohunt.com. Cheers.

bankit

What happened?!! Dow has had the luxury of being one of the least pirated games on the planet, and now people have to pirate the game just to play without steam!!!
So far almost everyone I know except for my brother sent back there copy and instead pirated the cracked version.

ET

ITS FUCKIN ANNOYING I JUST WANNA PLAY THE GAME AND I HAVE TO UPDATE!!!!

AND I HAVE FUCKING DIAL UP.!!!!
THESE FUCKERS!!! IM NEVER BUYING A GAME THAT HAS “Steamworks” ON THE BACK AGAIN!!!!

TAKE THAT THQ!!!

CavitySearch

It annoys me to no end that when I buy a game like DoW II or Half Life 2 or any other game with steam attached, I’m essentially buying an empty box. I 26k have dial-up… that makes patching an application such as Steam nearly impossible and when I do manage to get it updated I have to carefully guard it from ever seeing the internet again… else it decide it needs to download 3 years of updates.

While I agree that Steam has many cool features for those of us that DO have high speed internet, we cannot forget the large percentage of people in the US and abroad that don’t. Steam should be optional.

Queue

Yogurt Prime makes an excellent point. Pirates tend to be people who can’t afford the game.

My brother bought a legitimate copy and has a Loader in his DOW2 to bypass the steam crap.

Yogurt Prime

One other point:

You guys complain about piracy but the truth is that heavily pirated games are also heavily purchased games. See Doom and Quake for a prime example. I never met anyone in my teen years who had a purchased copy of Doom or Quake, yet all the guys who wrote it are wealthy beyond all dreams of avarice. Every person who paid for a copy would go online and find a vibrant community, a significant portion of which never paid for the game. It’s a classic network effect, sort of like how Microsoft benefits from people pirating Word and becoming fluent in their products instead of competing word processors like wordperfect or open office.

The vast majority of people who pirate wouldn’t buy anyway. Simply put, 15 year olds don’t have huge amounts of disposable income to spend on games but they have lots of free time to crack them. You’ve been trying to fight this for decades and it hasn’t worked. I remember playing Xwing as a kid with a photocopied version of the copy protection booklet. Software publishing has gotten more sophisticated, but the pirates have always been a step or two ahead of every advancement.

For every kid that spends 8 hours a day participating in the warez scene to score 0-day games, there are at least a few adults who have jobs and would rather just spend 5 minutes and 30 bucks to buy the game off a shelf. Usually after asking their warez-savvy teenage kid “what game is good?”

You’re not losing sales, you’re generating good word of mouth.

Yogurt Prime

I learned this the hard way with DOW1. Horribly broken multiplayer and the patches made it worse without fixing the original bugs.

In the end I said to hell with it and swore to stop sending them money. Sure enough, I warezed the sequels to DOW and all reports are that the multiplayer continued to suck and be imbalanced. I got to experience the game (and then delete it) without experiencing the hassle that comes with buying it.

Unless you are going to be playing a game online that is actually known to not suck (like TF2), there is zero reason to pay money. All they do is punish you with onerous DRM and shitty, machine-breaking patches. To hell with that.

JasonBarnes

I JUST BOUGHT DOW2 …AND WTF I HAVE A HORRIBLE INTERNET CONNECTION AND HALF OF THE TIME I DONT HAVE INTERNET… I BOUGHT THIS GAME BECAUSE I REALLY WANTED TO PLAY IT WITHOUT THE HASSLE OF CRACKING IT…MY FRIEND ENDED UP DOWNLOADING THE CRACK VERSION….AND IT TOOK LESS TIME THAN DOWNLOADING 20% from the STEAM CLIENT UPDATES… HONESTLY ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS PLAY SINGLE PLAYER WHILE IM IN AIRPORTS OR AWAY WITH MY LAPTOP..I DONT EVEN LIKE MULTI PLAYER….WTF RELIC IM NEVER BUYING ANYTHING FROM YOU GUYS AGAIN….EVER!!!!! what ever happend to buying a game. installing only the game and playing it without any fuckin UPDATES

Edmond

Actually the pirated version of this game is so much easier to run. Just copy the whole damn folder and copy the crack file and play. I just got the original copy today and am regretting it. It took over 2 hours just to get the game running from all the download bullcrap. Then this site tells me I can’t run it without internet? I didn’t buy an online game! What happens if my internet crashes so which means I can’t play what I paid for? This game just tortures people for doing the right thing and paying for it. I shoul’ve stuck with my pirated copy at least I’m playing it right now rather than waiting for all these Steam crap……

Fizz

What about LAN games?

Ive played sooo many hrs of DOW1 and i was really sad when i faced all the stupid Steam/GFW-problems, just to install the game ..

To bad Relic, im not buying any more games if this is the way its gone be …

suidnuts

who gives a shit about achievements and gamerscore? what this comes down to is i just spent £30 on a game that i installed and steam wouldnt let me play without patching. i could have just downloaded the pirate one in less time than this patch is taking and i wouldnt have to worry about the steam bs. i HATE steam. i dont even want it on my pc. and now by association i HATE all compaines associated with DoW2. no more money for you EVER!

John Capozzi -Relic Entertainment

You can put Steam in offline mode, and use an offline profile with GFWL.

The only time you NEED to connect to Steam is the first time, to activate the game and download the initial patch. After that you never need to connect again, if you just want to play alone. Keep in mind that you still need the Steam client running, it just doesn’t have to be connected.

We do warn you in-game that Achievements and Gamerscores are not tracked in GFWL offline mode.

Chi-Loong

@Billy

It’s a gamer thing. We can be incredibly hardcore about things we’re passionate about. ^^

http://billyteo.livejournal.com/ Billy Teo

Hello Mr Chan,

not like you to get so steamed up.

Or to rant unstoppably on a roll, like …well…a steamroller.

But better to blow a valve and let out some steam instead of keeping it all cooped up inside.

The key issue is that software companies that don’t try to combat piracy will soon be Left4Dead.

However, I agree that having a steam fortress strategy is not the way to go.

Chi-Loong

Oh man. This is a TOTAL pet peeve of mine.

I have refused to buy any of Valve’s product (because those morons conceived and run the Steam authentication) ever since one glaring incident a long time ago over Half-Life 2.

Problem 1: the original Half-Life 2 required internet connection to connect to play. When it was first launched, it was so congested you had to wait hours to log in to play the single player story mode. You had a shiny new game you couldn’t play, whilst all the pirates were *already* up and running playing the game with a cracked version.

Problem 2: I passed the original set to my friend to play because it didn’t play well on my PC as I hadn’t upgraded it yet. And guess what? The stupid Steam authentication did it in again because the transfer of password and comp settings didn’t match. Calling tech support in US would have been far too much of a hassle.

And all the while, happily cracked pirated versions of the game worked. When you SCREW over loyal customers on some DRM infested rubbish or authentication that makes it more difficult to enjoy something I BOUGHT, you lose me as a customer. Forever, and I will tell all my friends about it. I have another true story to relate how I had to CRACK my own ORIGINAL SirTech (now dead) Wizardry 8 game to play it, but that is another long story.

Death to stupid game distribution companies who make boneheaded decisions. When will they learn that these stupid measures alienate the fans? You really think we couldn’t get your stupid game any other way or there are no better alternatives (all the indie games) out there?

What install my original Spore 5 times only on my PC? Screw you EA! Never buying something from you again till you correct this idiotic policy. Bundle your malware Starforce DRM with your game? Screw you! After I patch to remove your buggy DRM, I’m never buying a game from you again until you correct the error. (which to Ubisoft’s credit, they did)

GRRRR!

Albert

Its a new working “requirements” on the side of the box says minimum CPU speed, RAM, HDD space, etc etc. I guess “Internet connection” just got added to the list.

Oo Gin Lee

type dawn of war 2 into google news under sci/tech, techgoondu is ranked no 1!!!!! right now

Alfred Siew

It’s a pain in the arse, all these so-called measures to fight piracy. Some argue they fight “zero-day” piracy, and are thus necessary for a game’s sales. I think it’s nonsense to treat your customers like thieves.

I can deal with all this activation/deactivation, but if the game is no longer fun as a result of such cumbersome steps, then don’t you think real gamers are getting a raw deal for buying the original instead of the ‘unlimited usage’ pirated copy?