About This GameEnjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.FeaturesThe ultimate medieval RTS package contains:. Stronghold: The original castle sim that started it all. Stronghold 2: The King, having fled after the defeat of his own armies, now attempts to rule his country from a secret location.

Establish your settlement, build your castle, and engage in siege warfare to defend your people in Stronghold, a unique 'Castle Sim' combining the best aspects.

Powerful barons now jostle for what is fast becoming a disintegrating kingdom – it is up to you to stem the tides of their ambition and unite the land under the king again!. Stronghold Crusader: Journey to distant Arabian lands renowned for brave warriors and fearsome weaponry as you lead a determined group of Crusaders. Now you have the chance to relive the historic Crusades in four campaigns as Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, the Sultan of Syria.

Stronghold Crusader Extreme: Extreme adds on 20 new missions, new buildings, and larger armies of 10,000 troops. Stronghold Legends: Lead as fantasy characters throughout history: King Arthur and the forces of Camelot, Siegfried and Dietrich in the German Ice Campaign, and unleash the fury of the forces of evil in Vlad Dracul’s Transylvania. Updated for Windows 7 and Vista compatibility. ©2009 Firefly Studios, Ltd.

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Spoiler tags are !X kills Y! I get what you're saying, but Game Ranger isn't the same as DirectX.

Game Ranger isn't required to run games. That's like comparing the car engine to the seat covers. And the fact that this is being used instead of an actual update on the game is kind of lazy on the devs part.I've played Baldur's Gate. You can't play Multiplayer without something like Game Ranger. However, Steam didn't force me to install it. I installed it on my own.

That's how it should be. It's about the principle of the matter. It's required to run this game because the devs decided to package it into their distro of this game. It's not Steam's fault. You're blaming the delivery service for what the person who shipped the game put in the box.Stronghold originally would install Gamespy Arcade to do it's multiplayer matchmaking (which I suppose you would blame Steam for installing as well).

Since Gamespy is now defunct, the devs switched over to GameRanger.Also, according to a mod on the official community forums:So there likely was a prompt that you may have missed. You're blaming the delivery service for what the person who shipped the game put in the box.True, but I wasn't blaming anyone. I was warning people about installation without permission. Just like how Steam asks to install a game, it should ask to install other items. It can be required, just not shoved in without notice.which I suppose you would blame Steam for installing as wellYep, I sure would.

The devs can 'package' all they want, I still expect Steam to request permission for third party programs outside my game library. Steam is great, but it should not be put above asking before installing.So there likely was a prompt that you may have missedUsually prompts require a response to proceed. So I couldn't have missed something and have the game installed at the same time.And I guarantee that if this was Origin or some other program that wasn't worshiped on this sub, it wouldn't be defended so blindly.