I played Left 4 Dead 2 on Steam over the free weekend. That was enough to convince me that the game is not for me, so no need to buy it (L4D1+2 bundle for less than 8€ didn't sound that bad at first). Maybe it was because I was mostly looking for the single-player experience, and apparently the game is mostly targeted to multiplayer? At least I seemed to get bored by the single-player part quite fast.
Yesterday I also reinstalled Rise of Nations Gold in order to play it properly. I've only played the tutorial missions before, now it is time to dive into it more deeply.
I was quite surprised to notice that the update servers for the game seem to be still up and running (there is no offline patch available for it as far as I can tell, just like with the sequel)? The game got updated fine online. This was surprising because with the sequel, Rise of Legends, that is not the case:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/rise_of_legends_auto_update_issues_drove_me_mad_today Maybe a different publisher/rights owner nowadays, then. Now, if I just knew how to make an up-to-date offline backup of the game, just if this game's update servers will also suddenly go offline. Maybe making backup of the fresh, updated installation is the solution (which can later be copy&pasted over a new installation), but I think I tried that approach earlier, and got a "Please reinstall the game" error. Or then there was something wrong with it...