Does anyone own the Steam version of this game? I bought the retail version years ago and it wouldn't work unless you allowed your PC to connect to Wild Tangent servers (which was known to be spyware related). I assumed buying the hard copy would avoid this, but it did not.

So, again, with the Steam version, are you sending data to both Valve and Wildtangent? or just Valve?

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/fate_series

Would love to see this come to GOG. Great looking game... old.... tied up in DRM.... But I suspect we won't be seeing this one here.

Thanks. Still not sure. One guy claims the disk version was DRM-free... I know that is false, so its hard to believe his statement of the Steam version also being DRM-free (well, at least from WT).

As one of the users suggested (who appears to have not tried his own suggestion) I tried using anti-spyware with the disc version of game... it broke it. That was when I knew it wasn't worth playing.

So still looking for confirmation. Not sure from that discussion what the actual take away is ;) Sounds like they didn't need an account, but I'm curious what is happening behind the scenes.

Yeah, sorry...
another one said that it's a different version on Steam (something like .32b and WT .28) and it didn't override his WT installation, nor has recognized his chars.
It's a good sign, I guess? :)

I bought the Steam version. I confirm that I didn't need a WildTangent account, but I do remember that my firewall reported a (non-Steam) connection at that point. However, I'm not sure whether that happened when I accessed the WildTangent website from within the game (there's a menu item which opens the WildTangent website in Internet Explorer, regardless of your default browser ...), or whether the game did that on its own. I'll try to check that, but I'm afraid it may take a while (still fighting with version 7 of Comodo firewall, not sure where exactly to find the respective data).

Okay, I ran a quick test and could not find any evidence that the game connected to anywhere. I'm not certain that I really checked all the options though, I may have overlooked something. Do you want me to test for something specific?

No, thank you for what you tried. From what I remember the game would not function with anti-spyware or firewall active. So it does indeed sound like the Steam version is unique (or perhaps they backed off on newer installs?)

Thanks for the responses.