it has a steam cloud REQUIREMENT?! The FUCK were they THINKING?!

huh I haven't finished downloading yet but it's turned OFF in MY settings. even though the text is red.

yes the game wont launch if its turned off.

Also it wont launch if steam is offline. Either via steam settings or down internet connection.

Since I hate cloud saving systems, what I have done is turn cloud on, launched the game, then turned it off again.

hmmm yeah I hate cloud as well. Had some trouble a while back with Origin not allowing me to turn cloud off and when I asked Origin for help all they could say is cloud is awesome why would I want to turn it off. Sigh because I am on a slow internet connection and cloud screws with things maybe?

Still that's a weird feature to have it not start without cloud but still be able to turn it off for the game in it's settings. Like it's passively dependant on cloud or it's not by design or something.

You cannot disable it in the game settings, I meant I turned it off in steam. To stop it been enabled in other games.

By settings I meant in steam. In the game's properties.

As I said I haven't finished downloading it yet but in properties in steam it's turned off for me.

To be clear krisan probably will have to leave the DRM bit in place, as SE would probably not like DRM circumvention, so I am just asking for the steam cloud check to be disabled.

I definitely don't like it either, believe me. It might not be easy to fix this one, though.. LR uses some interesting security protocols, and I don't want to step on SE's toes, as chrcoluk said earlier.

True. I just wish game companies went back to the old days where they listen to and trust their customers(Piracy aside I mean) I mean look at Bioware. Not exactly the greatest game company but so many of their games are mod friendly it makes them that much more fun and they keep reasonable prices so piracy and hacking are relatively low on many of their titles. If I didn't want to be able to mod or cheat in my OFFLINE games I'd play them on PS3 or something. sigh where did the trust go?

Moved thread to FFXIII-LR Subforum, for easier coolaboration.