Daily Deal: Kerbal Space Program Steam Keys

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Wed, Jan 4th 2017 10:43am — Daily Deal

One of the most decorated simulation games of the past five years is looking to land gently on your computer. Kerbal Space Program, the fully-fledged, physics-based space flight simulation game is here to help you venture deep into the final frontier. Create and manage your own space program from the ground up, building and flying spacecraft, exploring distant worlds, and finding parts of the game nobody has gone before. The Steam Keys are for sale for only $13.59 in the Deals Store.

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hrmmmm, 4 Jan 2017 @ 10:48am

no mans sky
.....slow news day

id rather play stellaris with the tons a mods like trek , star wars , or call a chtullu

if i want reality why do i want to pay for it lol
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- Anonymous Coward, 4 Jan 2017 @ 11:29am
  
  Re: no mans sky
  Reality is you'll never get to do that in real life.
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Anonymous Coward, 4 Jan 2017 @ 11:34am

This game is strange. The child-toy like assembly of a craft is in stark contrast to the unforgiving realistic physical simulations in the game and the odd mexican humour. The graphics is not amazing and the game is a strange guided open world.

All in all it is extremely quirky and strange. It is probabbly worth owning if you are to the nerdy side of games and the engine is suited for some creative modding.
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- Leigh Beadon (profile), 4 Jan 2017 @ 1:04pm
  
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  Agreed. This is not a game for everyone - but to a certain type of player, it's a must-have in the collection.
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Rekrul, 4 Jan 2017 @ 7:03pm

I think it's kind of ironic that Techdirt has run many articles on the folly of "buying" content that is locked to online DRM servers, but yet you're promoting the sale of keys for a game that is locked to an online DRM service.
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- Jajo (profile), 5 Jan 2017 @ 12:09am
  
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  Not necesserily. Many games on steam have no DRM. For them Steam is used only as a distribution platform and, once they are installed, one can run these games without running Steam.
  
  That being said, I don't know whether that's the case for KSP as well.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 5 Jan 2017 @ 2:49am
    
    Re: Re:
    It is. Once you've downloaded the game from Steam you can run it without Steam being involved, create multiple installations (to run savegames with specific sets of mods)and so on. One of the reasons most gamers like Steam is that it's notionally just a storefront. It's a storefront that provides optional DRM services to developers, but that's a developer decision. If a particular developer ties their game tightly into the DRM side of Steam's platform and Steam falls over for a week, leaving players without their games, that's mostly the developer's choice to leave themselves open to that vulnerability. Less DRM-heavy games wouldn't be so heavily affected.
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