I think it comes down to the individual dev. I want to rewrite the agreements to all include mandatory preloads and midnight (EST, damn it) unlocks.randomwab said:What's up with BioShock 2? No preload, and it's unlocking way late into the 9th. I dunno about American timezones, but it's not unlocking until 10pm tomorrow night for GMT people. Kinda regret buying it through Steam now. The only reason I preorder games on there is for the chance to preload them.
That, and STALKER Call of Pripyat is nowhere to be seen.
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i think the timing of their unlocks is kind of crazy
they have huge potential to tap into people wanting to be able to immediately start playing at midnight in their timezone, I don't see any reason why that would be hard to do, as its technically not breaking the contract.
the fact that in some timezones they dont unlock till late in the evening makes me think they just didnt bother taking that into account, which kind of sucks.
they have huge potential to tap into people wanting to be able to immediately start playing at midnight in their timezone, I don't see any reason why that would be hard to do, as its technically not breaking the contract.
the fact that in some timezones they dont unlock till late in the evening makes me think they just didnt bother taking that into account, which kind of sucks.
I'm guessing the agreements leave it to the publisher's discretion whether to allow preloading and what time to do the unlock. In the highly unlikely event that they specified only a date and made no reference to time, I really doubt Valve would want to gotcha! the publisher like that anyway. I mean Valve doesn't even unlock their own games at midnight.
In an ideal world though all games would be preloadable and playable at midnight, and I agree with you about that being quite valuable to the consumer and from a marketing perspective. But keep in mind we still have one foot in Ye Olden Tymes where brick and mortar prices somehow control digital distribution prices and many publishers are probably afraid of midnight unlocks for various reasons (same for preloading).
In an ideal world though all games would be preloadable and playable at midnight, and I agree with you about that being quite valuable to the consumer and from a marketing perspective. But keep in mind we still have one foot in Ye Olden Tymes where brick and mortar prices somehow control digital distribution prices and many publishers are probably afraid of midnight unlocks for various reasons (same for preloading).
Schmattakopf
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Wish they had Shogun.
If you like the others, chances are you'll like Apocalypse, too.Danne-Danger said:
Fragamemnon
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The Empire:TW AI-both campaign and battle- is really, really bad. CA's opponent artificial intelligence had been teetering for years now and all the extra mechanics they added into the game toppled it right over.
There is a AI mod for Empire (Darthmod) that was done by I think the same dude/team that did a decent job with the M2 modded AI. Not sure if it is much better, someone should give it a spin and find out. I
There is a AI mod for Empire (Darthmod) that was done by I think the same dude/team that did a decent job with the M2 modded AI. Not sure if it is much better, someone should give it a spin and find out. I
Medieval 2 Total War Kingdoms is still $17 in the Australian Steam store even with the sale. The price of Kingdoms has always been high here for no apparent reason. For that kind of money I'd rather buy the total war mega pack but seeing as how I already own every other game in the series this isn't possible for me since Steam doesn't allow gifting from packs. So Kingdoms remains unpurchased until they lower their price even more.
Surely it must be a mistake for Kingdoms to be the same price as Empire Total War? Seems like they set the price at release and forgot to lower it over time.
Surely it must be a mistake for Kingdoms to be the same price as Empire Total War? Seems like they set the price at release and forgot to lower it over time.
ElJuice said:
They're really very similar.
Terror from the Deep is longer and very hard. In UFO defense if you level up your guys/tech they become god-like. Eventually you can just send out one badass who casually fires a couple of nukes out the window of the ship to lay waste to the entire map.
I liked the HP lovecraft vibe in Terror From the Deep though.
Tired of how they handle their PC releases.TheExodu5 said:
Borderlands
- 1 week late
- came out with horrid tacked on controls
- matchmaking didn't even work
- DLC was always late and horribly overpriced
- mandatory Steam patch ADDED SecuROM hooks
- DLC activated SecuROM
Now BioShock 2 has the same shitty "release day" SecuROM even though the game was cracked before release. We have to install it even though we're getting it on Steam which has its own protection. Not only that, they're so afraid of the piracy that has already happened that they won't let us preload so we have to fight for bandwidth at a time we should just be able to decrypt at.
Chiaroscuro
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Bioshock is available right now as we speak.
brain_stew
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Have you seen any word/mention about a SEGA Superstar's racing preorder, LovingSteam?
Chiaroscuro
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And why Vancouver isn´t on Steam yet? Sega put it on GonD weeks ago.
Diablohead
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Sucks that the pc support was shit but you can disable auto updates for each game on steam, right click and go to properties then change the update status to something else then !always keep up to date!.Firestorm said:
lakesideflight
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wow, total war mega pack at $20.39. I already have rome-gold and medieval 2, but buying the remaining games alone would cost more than the entire pack, damn you steam :lol
Danne-Danger
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You mean if you should get the expansion, right? You really only need Kingdoms if you have an interest to use mods (since a lot of mods build on Kingdoms), if you just want see what kind of game TW is you won't need Kingdoms for that.luiztfc said:
Though you may want to take a look at this before you decide.
ElAlcesDiablo
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I've never played a Total War game, always fancied trying one never found the time.
Reviews of Empire seem very positive. Perhaps they didn't play it sufficiently to expose the AI's weaknesses. I wonder if I will either though. Is it really that bad?
Is there any suggestion they'll improve the AI for Napoleon? Should I just wait for that?
I'll probably struggle to find the time to play one of these games, let alone 5 or 6. Tempted to just get Empire atm.
Reviews of Empire seem very positive. Perhaps they didn't play it sufficiently to expose the AI's weaknesses. I wonder if I will either though. Is it really that bad?
Is there any suggestion they'll improve the AI for Napoleon? Should I just wait for that?
I'll probably struggle to find the time to play one of these games, let alone 5 or 6. Tempted to just get Empire atm.
brain_stew
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ElAlcesDiablo said:
Just get Rome, the cheapest and generally considered the best.
frontieruk
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Ledsen said:Anyone? I'd pay you by PayPal beforehand of course
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lakesideflight
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midweek deal: Trine $5
edit: also they apparently lowered the initial sale price on Empire:Total War, last night I remember it being $13, today it is $10.20
edit: also they apparently lowered the initial sale price on Empire:Total War, last night I remember it being $13, today it is $10.20
Diablohead
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I am backing up my steam games using the build in backup utility and its taking ages to pack up big games like GTA IV, if I just copy/paste the installed game to an external hdd and delete the game from steam, will pasting back the files at a later date add it back to my steam installed list automaticly? One time I reinstalled steam years ago on an old computer and it didn't seem to work right.
If these back-up packages I am making know where steam is and reinstalls games quickly I would prefer to do that.
I have a baby small HDD because my pc was made on a super tight budget and processor, ram and graphics card came first before anything else as I was once a poor student
If these back-up packages I am making know where steam is and reinstalls games quickly I would prefer to do that.
I have a baby small HDD because my pc was made on a super tight budget and processor, ram and graphics card came first before anything else as I was once a poor student
Metalic Sand
who is Emo-Beas?
lakesideflight said:
Damn this is really tempting. Is the XBLA version ever coming out? :lol
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Damn Steam is really pumping these deals up, it's like 3 sales a week minimum now :lol
Chiaroscuro
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lakesideflight said:
Because someone at Valve is very bad at Math. Usual price US$ 29.99, at 66% discount no way it should have been $ 13.
Diablohead
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Trine is $5 for you Americans? it's £4.25 here what a rip!
xe.com says $5 = £3.18 so I guess some paypal may be in order for some people, heh.
xe.com says $5 = £3.18 so I guess some paypal may be in order for some people, heh.
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