Getting the game the day it goes gold, legitimately, would be the only reason I'd put steam on my PC. All the other features (I'll download and test updates on my own schedule, thank you very much) have little value to me. So, let me be the first to say STEAMing pile in this thread. I'll bet their servers will be just that on steam release day.
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