1st off I have legal non-stream, fully licensed Duke Nukem 3D on disk.
2nd we are talking about Duke 4. Not Dukem Nukem 3D.
3rd I tried the "platform steam" once. I downloaded the steam platform and the next day when I turned on my laptop. Everything was fine (OS Win7 Home 32bit) until I started steam ( was lucky I hadn't plugged in my D: hard drive in the USB case yet). When I started the stream prog. My laptop went nuts, like R2D2 on crack. It pop, made all kinds of weird beeping sounds and then died, deader then a door nail. I had to change out the "C" hard drive and the memory sticks to make the laptop work again. And then partition the new hard drive and format it before reinstalling everything from the backup disks starting with the OS. That's why I don't like stream and I will
never use it again.
A PS: I still have the original MS DOS Duke Nukem and a lot of other MS DOS games that I play on Win7 via the DosBox emulator.
Paul B, on 25 October 2017 - 10:51 PM, said:
You digital guys are sure giving the analog guy a hard time. The reason you will be hard pressed to find a non steam licensed version of Duke Nukem 3D is because it doesn't exist. All software companies have moved to digital licenses using online services. The main reason for this is to ensure people are purchasing the software legally and not pirating it. With digital licenses they can control who can use the software and can ban a license if for any reason it has been activated too many times. It's an attempt to stop piracy, maximize profits & improve deployments. Steam had a terrible launch when it first came out and it took many years to get it right. Now the platform has proven to be a lot more reliable. It is also nice that you never have to worry about misplacing a product license as all your licenses become transparent and tied to your steam e-mail account. And i'm sure you probably already knew that.