Thoughts? Opinions? Experiences? Hard answers? (what I really want lol). So if I start it without the disc am I committing an offence under Australian law (which prohibits circumventing Digital Rights Manegement)? If the game obviously wants you to have a disc inserted while playing it would be for copyright infringement prevention reasons (most likely as that's what almost everything annoying about digital copyright protected stuff seems to revolve around, not sure though). Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings You have one thousand years to lead a civilization into greatness. Now I bet many people here already know that so I'll get to my point! Age of Empires is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10,000 years, in which players are the guiding spirit in t. The results were the same (makes sense I guess). This is when I tried starting the game directly through the Age3y.exe in the age of empires 3 folder on my hard-drive (without steam). This allowed me to even play online rated games without a disc inserted! Is there ANY way i can play online (msn gaming zone) without the original cd Ive even burnt the iso onto a cd but it doesnt really recognize the. I then realised that if I started the game through steam I didn't need to insert the disc (if you try through the icon on your desktop you will get a 'please insert disc'). Operating System: xp Burning Software: clone cd Anti-virus Software: norton DAEMON Tools Version: newest one Ummm I just recently got the age of empires 2 iso version (da games a classic :D ) but i used to have the actual cd and always played online. Hi! I recently got steam, and added the age3y.exe file as a non-steam game so I could have the steam overlay web-browser while in-game.

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