can someone please explain to me what steam is? How am i suppose to use it? I am planning to buy the game. So want to know how to use it and whether its helpful. Plss help guys
Steam is an online games retailer, management and multiplayer portal. Steam is now the only way to play FM, to help battle piracy.
If you buy the game online you may only be given a steam code, or you will find your steam code included with your disc if you buy a conventional copy.
Either way you need to download steam here:
Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform
And then enter your code to install FM.
The advantages of steam are:
Steam will automatically update the game with patches for you.
The game is attached to your steam account, not your computer. So if you get a new computer (or indeed if you have more than one computer) you can install steam and the game on as many computers as you want, at no extra cost. You may only play the game on one system at a time though.
Steam has built in tools to fix errors, such as verifying the game files and de fragmenting game files for you.
The disadvantages of steam are:
None. Well aside from needing to be connected to the internet to play. But you can open steam whilst connected, and then disconnect from the internet, and as long as you dont restart steam or your computer, you wont need to reconnect to the net to play.