Very cool maps in here--must be checked out by everyone--you will like them.

This patch is awesome! Finally the Coronata has some serious teeth!  

right click on game icon in steam library

go to updates tab

change automatic update off

the option is there.

No, what you need to be displeased with is Steamworks. It gives the devs some extra libraries and online feature support in exchange for their games being Steam exclusives. Unfortunately, Rebellion was a steamworks game, so it is almost impossible for it to be brought to another distributor.

That said, Rebellion is the only Stardock game this way. And as much as I dislike how much of an anticompetitive policy steamworks is, I'll admit steam really has worked well for me. What exactly isn't working for you?

Query: how exactly do you know steam is causing the problem?  How can you be sure it's not some problem between your bopx and Rebellion rather then your box and steam?

Well I understand your frustration, and for this specific case the above question is largely semantics as regardless of the cause the simple fact is you are unable to play this game.

That said, swearing off all steam only games sounds  a tad extreme if you don't have conclusive evidence that steam is causing the problem.  I've just seen quite a few people who blame every problem they have with a  game on steam only on steam, even if the bugs/problems are caused by the game it's self-usually these are the sort who already hate steam and are quick to jump on any new vindication.

Fair enough.  I'm just by nature often skeptical on this particular subject- perhaps a bit too much so.

 Between me and a few friend I live with we've bought and played hundreds of games on steam spanning 9-10 computers over the years between the three of us, and none of us have ever had a single problem caused by steam.  by contrast the people who hate steam seem to miraculously hit problems caused by steam 50% or more of the time as it's often told.  That seems a pretty tough set of statistics to swallow- Hard to attribute to mere chance.

of course problems with steam exist- this is true of any program- But they seem to occur uncharacteristically often with those who already have a grip with Steam.

So either something is different(which is likely to say either the user or computer in question), resulting in a different probability of problems, or people are misattributing their problems.

That is not to say this is necessarily the case for the OP- I'm only speaking in generalities.  Of course to be fair, I'm likely too quick to judge because of all the steam hate around these parts.

Anyway to OP: I don't really mean to be a jerk on the matter- sorry if I vented any spillover annoyance on you built up by the general anti-steam sentiment that seems so prevalent on these forums.  Your posts were very reasonable and polite, and I shouldn't be snapping at you over generalizations.

Well on the bright side, you can probably get a refund if you don't intend to play at this points.  Valve will generally give you one if you explain the situation.

That's sort of a misrepresentation of that phrase.  It's meant to be used to describe that not every set of statistics that follow the same pattern are necessarily related.

It is not meant to say that when comparing two sets of trials on the same essentialy format (in this case whether games work on Steam as a platform) have no underlying meaning.

And frankly all the examples you gave for alternative possibilities are themselves correlations.  All I really surmised was that the gap was too large to be attributed to mere chance- so either something has to have been different in the setup of the set of trials pertinant to myself and the other parties respectively or data is being misinterpreted somewhere.

Yes, I have a generally positive view of steam.  But frankly if problems occurred 1/10 as often as these other players say they encounter them there's no way I wouldn't remember- Heck if I had even a 10-15% rate of having steam related problems I wouldn't have a positive disposition towards steam.  Not to mention in general it's more often the opposite- people remember the bad experiences more consistently then the good.

And that said I don't doubt a player's first experience with software shapes their perception of it.  I was never trying to explain "why the people hate steam," but merely that people who hate steam already are prone to blaming any and every problem they have related to a game on steam on steam specifically, resulting ina vicious cycle in which their hatred of the program will be further fueled by problems it didn't even cause. 

Again though, I do acknowledge that there may in some cases be an entirely different probability- It's just as likely to be some key difference in the user/computer involved as it is to be a misinterpretation of problems.

Fair enough- As I said in my second post I was probably venting some olf irritation superimposing generalizations on your specific case.

That said again, if you don't plan to keep playing Rebellion you should pursue a Refund- Steam is usually pretty good about those when someone is dissatisfied with what they got for their money.