graywolf323
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JADS said:
I'd be willing to pay anyone in Europe back if they got me a copy
edit: for those of us in America it shows as $29.95
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STEAM - Announcements & Updates 2010
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I'd be willing to pay anyone in Europe back if they got me a copy
edit: for those of us in America it shows as $29.95
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Proxies work for Green Man Gaming. If you have any titles to trade in from when they did the 1 penny deals then use it. I'm actually glad now that I got Necrovision during that sale because it is trading in for 6 euro.
TouchMyBox
Member
Fuck, I bought Shank too.
Thinking on the positive side of things, the fine print for ea games on steam is always a copy-paste from the retail box (or i guess in this case from EA's own store?) EA hasn't included DRM in steam releases for a long time now, but the fine print for EA's games on steam always claims that there is a form of DRM, despite it not being there.
Hope that's the case with this.
This is why I kinda hope steam becomes a huge unstoppable force that they would be able to say "no" to publishers, and the publisher would have no chance but to comply. Of course this sounds like a terrible thing, but it would allow then to say no to extra DRM, killing the cancer once and for all.
Thinking on the positive side of things, the fine print for ea games on steam is always a copy-paste from the retail box (or i guess in this case from EA's own store?) EA hasn't included DRM in steam releases for a long time now, but the fine print for EA's games on steam always claims that there is a form of DRM, despite it not being there.
Hope that's the case with this.
Archie said:
This is why I kinda hope steam becomes a huge unstoppable force that they would be able to say "no" to publishers, and the publisher would have no chance but to comply. Of course this sounds like a terrible thing, but it would allow then to say no to extra DRM, killing the cancer once and for all.
graywolf323
Member
crimsonheadGCN said:
well I ended up finding a Euro proxy but the price now shows as 24.99 Euros
TouchMyBox
Member
Struct09 said:
I just try my best not to financially support such tomfoolery.
RaySpencer
Member
speculawyer said:
Yeah, but Im pretty sure the account that buys a 4 pack has to keep one of the games, so you would basicaly end up wasting one copy of the game. Might as well just buy 3 seperate copies, and gift them individualy.
Visualante
Member
Valve is offering a distribution service. It is not their place to tell publishers on what terms they sell their games.
I don't think Valve will ever be saying "don't put DRM on our store". I believe it is Valve who bowed to publisher pressure regarding localised pricing. And allowing publishers like Ubisoft charge more in certain regions and to not sell games in particular regions.
Valve can only publish statistics that might or might not show games with extra intrusive DRM performi poorly. But I don't think people give a fuck enough to make these statistics even remotely true. I know there's half a dozen games I'd buy if the Securom/equivalent DRM were removed but I really don't think many people care when there is a game they really want to check out. Just look at how many people go into threads and go "STEAMWORKS? Steam version please omg let me play this on Steam I won't buy it otherwise" if there's a little bit of DRM on top of that they'd still buy it because they have all their eggs in one basket and have given up on boxed games and patching.
One thing I would like to see Valve mandate is day and date patches for retail and Steam versions. Instead of making part of the userbase wait.
I don't think Valve will ever be saying "don't put DRM on our store". I believe it is Valve who bowed to publisher pressure regarding localised pricing. And allowing publishers like Ubisoft charge more in certain regions and to not sell games in particular regions.
Valve can only publish statistics that might or might not show games with extra intrusive DRM performi poorly. But I don't think people give a fuck enough to make these statistics even remotely true. I know there's half a dozen games I'd buy if the Securom/equivalent DRM were removed but I really don't think many people care when there is a game they really want to check out. Just look at how many people go into threads and go "STEAMWORKS? Steam version please omg let me play this on Steam I won't buy it otherwise" if there's a little bit of DRM on top of that they'd still buy it because they have all their eggs in one basket and have given up on boxed games and patching.
One thing I would like to see Valve mandate is day and date patches for retail and Steam versions. Instead of making part of the userbase wait.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
Bunny said:
Yep Killing Floor is pure awesome, bought it at full price after they did one of their free weekends and i'm glad i did, if i had a decent PC and a stable internet connection i would be playing it right now.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Modern Warfare 2 is $40.00 for the weekend.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
Valve has once again rescheduled the four hour downtime. Now it is happening between 4AM to 8AM on October 11, 2010:
I'm guessing the change has to do with Civ V. Unlike the other titles on Steam, it seems peak concurrent userbase is the evening hours of North America.
MikeBlaszczak said:
I'm guessing the change has to do with Civ V. Unlike the other titles on Steam, it seems peak concurrent userbase is the evening hours of North America.
Schmattakopf
Member
:lol I choked on my drink.crimsonheadGCN said:
Agreed, although it's not exactly in the same vein as L4D.randomwab said:
speculawyer
Member
Are they gonna have another TF2 event?Stop It said:
I want to get those damn achievements but you can't seem to get them now.
Visualante
Member
Laugh all you want, it's back in the charts and will rise above Left4Dead and Civ V I bet.
Stallion Free
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Certainly. The DLC topped charts too when they released IIRC.Visualante said:
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Killing Floor's good for the price, but it's dated and feels shallow once you figure it out.
Schmattakopf
Member
Shallow, but fun.Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Joe Molotov
Member
Played a little bit of Axel & Pixel, it was easy but cute and the background art is great. Well worth $5. More good XBLA games need to make their way onto Steam, the sooner the better (still waiting on Limbo).
toastyToast
Member
Omi said:
It was always $89.99. It still holds the title of most outrageous price hike although I can see them getting even higher with the currency almost reaching parity.
$120 here we come.
The Crimson Kid
what are you waiting for
crimsonheadGCN said:
I was like, "Oh, that's a decent deal with all the DLC included."
Then I saw that it wasn't!:lol Now the DLC is TEN maps for $15. Gosh, what a steal...
ohhthegore
Member
well looks like I'll be forced to buy Killing Floor
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Killing Floor gets boring pretty quickly.
You realize that what they're doing is trying to deflect attention from Medal of Honor, right?crimsonheadGCN said:
As soon as the Beta came out, they dropped the price of the DLC. Now they've dropped the price of the game JUUUUUST enough that buying MW2 + the DLC packs is less than buying Medal of Honor.
I don't know WHY they care that Medal of Honor is coming out - MW2 has been out for months and Black Ops is coming soon, but the timing of these dumb sales is fairly obvious.
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They care because they can still steal sales from it? How is that not obvious to you? They are trying to make money.Htown said:
charlequin
Banned
Visualante said:
Sure it is. They dictate pricing, after all.
I think it's more accurate to say that many of the publishers Valve works with would be unwilling to budge on DRM and Valve believes they get more money and less complaints selling double-DRMed software than they would by not having the 2K, Ubi, etc. games at all.
ohhthegore
Member
Stallion Free said:
You tell me this after I buy it!!!
Schmattakopf
Member
Don't listen to him; it's good.ohhthegore said:
Stallion Free
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I never said it wasn't good. It's just that it got tiresome after about two nights of playing the game with my L4D group. Our flavors of the week usually last the whole week.
ohhthegore
Member
I guess its all going to depend on how the community is, and from what I hear they aint very nice to newcomersStallion Free said:
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