[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by uchiha_madara

@rockthegod:Just curious about your first post,isn't steam supposed to be an online distributor of games so why did you need to make an account their after a retail purchase at Gamestop.

That's because Steam is used as a protection even in the retail copy. If I'm not mistaken it uses the steam installer to unpack itself, as the files are encrypted by steam. Similar to a back up copy one makes after downloading from the game from steam. So either way you would need a valid steam a/c to run the legit copy, downloaded or otherwise.