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Originally Posted by Questdog
What exactly is the benefit of installing through Steam?
Only games I have in Steam are because I have to.
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I have both a desktop PC and a Macbook. I use steam for all of my games because many of the games can be played on both PC and Mac through steam. Once the game is activated with the Steam key, I can play it on any computer of my choosing. So let's say I activate a game and two weeks later, my hard drive crashes. Without steam, if I was out of activations, I would SoL. But with steam, I would just get a new hard drive, log in to the Steam client and all my games would be right there ready for download.
The one thing I don't know is if you still need your OOTP serial number in addition to your Steam key to activate. If the Steam key counts as 1 of your 2 activations, that would drastically diminish the value of the Steam key in my opinion.