Darwinia now preloading over Steam

[fastrecords]

Hello,

(I posted this in a steam thread before but I'll ask again in here)

What I would like to know is the fact if I can register my already bought version of Darwinia in steam. So I can play (download) the game where ever I am. Same as the other games in steam with a CD-KEY.
And so I don't have to buy it again.

Thanks for any reply on this.

[John]

fastrecords, unfortunately it's not possible to register your existing copy of Darwinia in Steam - Darwinia does not use a CD key scheme.

[Tortanick]

Any reason why you can't regester a copy of darwinia despite the lack of cd-keys? technical reasons, an anti-piracy clause written by valve?

[Dave2]

I imagine that Valve wouldn't really like it (they'd essentially be paying to support people who haven't paid them, I imagine, though I obviously don't know the details), and the lack of unique identifier probably doesn't help either.

[elDiablo]

In reply to the topic, it seems that Gabe Newell is a bit in love with Darwinia. He posted a Steam update about how much he is hooked on it. Nice one guys, nice one!

[OrR]

Never use WMV and 2 minutes really shouldn't take 50 MB... 5 MB per minute should be enough, if you need to make it high quality, 10 MB should still be plenty. Hell, I usually encode my videos at around 2.5 MB per minute and they still look good.
Why you can't register existing copies at Steam: It's hard to distinguish between a legal and a pirated copy.
Aw, man, that brutal scene where the DGs are totally defenceless against the spiders and ants was cruel!