Steam Launches Hit PC Games from EA

snowdog said:
This is a surprise, hopefully EA will realize that steam is far better than the **** they have and that putting excessive DRM is rubbish... Sure they make a lot of rubbish games these days but some are still acceptable. I mean, Mirrors edge looks okay and some others too. But I really hope they add classics, like a battlefield pack: BF1942, Road to Rome, secret weapons of ww2, BF: Vietnam and BF2 + exp's.

OR other EA classics: Sim city 1-4, theme park, etc...
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Mirror's Edge is a whole tonne better than people give it credit for. Anyone who says "Oh, the first person perspective ruins it" hasn't even bothered trying to appreciate the beauty of it.

I think EA get a bad rep and their games are getting a whole lot better and more progressive. Ok, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space aren't World Beaters, but at least they're something new and experimental, and most importantly don't have the number 2, 3, 4 or 5 after their title.
 
Swi1ch said:
Mirror's Edge is a whole tonne better than people give it credit for. Anyone who says "Oh, the first person perspective ruins it" hasn't even bothered trying to appreciate the beauty of it.

I think EA get a bad rep and their games are getting a whole lot better and more progressive. Ok, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space aren't World Beaters, but at least they're something new and experimental, and most importantly don't have the number 2, 3, 4 or 5 after their title.
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Mirrors Edge is a really fun game to play, and Dead Space was one of the best games of 2008 easily.

EA get's a lot of flack, and to be honest A lot of it they desearve. However they are improving and we can only reward such improvement by buying the games.

I just hope this is a new trend for EA and not a temporary phase.

Oh and first post ¬¬ :p
 
It's usually a bad sign when it's North American only. We still haven't got any games from Atari and Ubisoft, almost a year after they joined Steam. Europe/PAL = third world of videogaming.
 
Tefal said:
sheer numbers of countries and legal hassle getting rights etc.
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Indeed, people seem to overlook this. For US/Japanese releases it literally is translation into one language, acquiring of approval from one government agency of the content, then release. For Europe they need to deal with loads of countries and with them the hassle that each governing body may bring.
 
But that should not apply to Steam! These games have already been translated and certified for their optical media release. If a game is available on a disc in a country, it should be on Steam, too.
 
ic1male said:
But that should not apply to Steam! These games have already been translated and certified for their optical media release. If a game is available on a disc in a country, it should be on Steam, too.
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Unfortunately it isn't that simple. Steam/the company releasing material on steam still has to seek approval of release as it is treated as a different product to the disk release.
 
Talrinys said:
Not really their fault now is it?
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Partly yes. There is a list of questions to what the answer would be.

Rather than asking "what was the name of your first pet?" or "what school did you goto" etc - they just ask "what did you change your answer to".

Its poorly implemented and you cant contact them to fix it.
 
Killerkebab said:
You don't need to give the password out for it to be hijacked, the same thing happened to me.
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Well they don;t actually hack into steam, so they either guess your pw, you put it in one of those retarded "we need to check you details " messages/emails, you got a key logger or some other crap, or your question is easy.


So yeah in generralit's always your fault, if they hacked into steam and somehow got the pw's they've have them for a huge number of people. (if they could even recover a pw from the hashs)
 
The EA games are now available to "most of Europe" which sadly does not include the UK. Search for Mass Effect and you won't find it, add ?cc=de (for Germany for example) and it appears in the list of new releases. What's that all about?
 
ic1male said:
The EA games are now available to "most of Europe" which sadly does not include the UK. Search for Mass Effect and you won't find it, add ?cc=de (for Germany for example) and it appears in the list of new releases. What's that all about?
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Looks like there's a lot of people annoyed at the Steam pricing with the Euro now on the Steam forums. It seems that Valve don't want to annoy too many publishers in individual countries.
 
Yep, looks like a UK only thing, I can purchase EA games over here in Ireland fine now, not that I'm gonna :p

I guess why you can't get em in the UK yet is to do with current regional pricing steam is enforcing.

I'm outraged at the new steam Euro prices, currently it's the equivalent of £48 for me to buy a game on steam now, so eh, yeah, no thanks.
 
I would never touch Steam with a bargepole for digital downloads as they have always overcharged and now its so OTT because of the exchange rate.

However, little tip for anyone who does still use it. If you get someone based in another region to buy the game then gift it to you apparently the region lock does not apply. Several Silent Hill 5 fans have got people in the US to pay for it then gift to them to get around the region lock as its not due in the EU until Feb 09.

Whether or not Valve will close this loophole remains to be seen.
 
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