Steam or Retail for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 ??

Vlad Drac · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:42

Hi all,

What will be the best way to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the PC?
Will it be better on Steam or is the the retail version still the way to go? I've got 2 or 3 games on Steam before but I've never played multi-player on Steam. I don't know if there will be any noticeable difference.
What do you think, Steam or retail?

Kenai · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:45

Whichever is cheaper

Sinny · 10 Oct 2009 at 18:56

Kenai said:
Whichever is cheaper

Since MW2 is being price hiked, this is the option I shall be taking.

cant find it anywhere for £25 yet which is my limit :\.

Deific · 10 Oct 2009 at 19:00

regulus said:
It's a competitor to OCUK thus frowned upon posting here. remove remove

It's not a competitor, it sells games and thats all it sells

regulus · 10 Oct 2009 at 19:00

Vlad Drac said:
Hi all,

What will be the best way to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on the PC?
Will it be better on Steam or is the the retail version still the way to go? I've got 2 or 3 games on Steam before but I've never played multi-player on Steam. I don't know if there will be any noticeable difference.
What do you think, Steam or retail?

I'll get it from Steam eventhough it's almost guarenteed to be more expensive. No noticable difference apart from greater convenience getting it from Steam.

regulus · 10 Oct 2009 at 19:01

Deific said:
It's not a competitor, it sells games and thats all it sells

Sell the hardware aswell. Noticed the 360 black there. Nice site btw.

M-Hammond · 10 Oct 2009 at 20:07

I'm going for steam, means one less disk to worry about

ic1male · 10 Oct 2009 at 20:12

It could be that Steam do a special pre-order offer, too, such as buy this for 10% off or get Modern Warfare 1 for free.

m0r94n · 10 Oct 2009 at 20:13

ic1male said:
It could be that Steam do a special pre-order offer, too, such as buy this for 10% off or get Modern Warfare 1 for free.

I'd say the former is more likely as MW1 sold bundles. Neither however will happen imo, Activision wouldn't let them.

njj1046 · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:41

I buy from Steam usually, but I always tend to buy a retail version of a game if I know it's gonna be using Punkbuster. I like the idea of my CD key being printed inside the sealed copy of the game. Strange, but that's me

Frapple · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:42

Retail obviously, can't sell Steam games.

Deific · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:44

Am I the only person who buys retail purely for the satisfaction of owning the box?

TheVoice · 10 Oct 2009 at 22:25

Retail will be cheaper, guaranteed.

meghatronic · 10 Oct 2009 at 22:45

I have bought all the CODs retail. And don't intend to break the trend. Same with Battlefields.

Seems wrong otherwise.

Hamoodii · 10 Oct 2009 at 23:58

meghatronic said:
I have bought all the CODs retail. And don't intend to break the trend. Same with Battlefields.

Seems wrong otherwise.

Me too, except that WaW is still 25-30 quid most places

And second hand versions on forums always get snapped up

Totality · 11 Oct 2009 at 02:25

Hamoodii said:
Me too, except that WaW is still 25-30 quid most places

And second hand versions on forums always get snapped up

Didn't realise it was still worth money! I'll have to dig my old copy out and flog it on!

C64 · 11 Oct 2009 at 03:24

reatil obviously because steam has stupid activation ? activate it once its permanently linked to that ac**** retail will be cheaper + you can sell it on when bored with it

NeoVo · 11 Oct 2009 at 03:48

Id personally say STEAM, because it downloads the updates for you itself.

However its also nice to have the retail discs and the ability to sell on, so go for the cheaper option.

TheVoice · 11 Oct 2009 at 07:03

NeoVo said:
Id personally say STEAM, because it downloads the updates for you itself.

However its also nice to have the retail discs and the ability to sell on, so go for the cheaper option.

If you pay me £10 I'll download and install the patches for you.

daz.rathbone · 11 Oct 2009 at 09:36

Personally I'll be avoiding buying non-Valve games off Steam. I made the mistake of buying CoD:WaW from Steam, and every time the game gets patched Steam users get shafted for a week or more (we have to wait until Steam/devs work together and release the patch over Steam).

Such a shame, Steam could be great. It should be far cheaper than other retail routes for buying a game, yet it's often far more expensive. Publishers should LOVE you buying games over Steam, with minimal distribution costs and ZERO manufacturing costs, so why still shaft the majority of customers - I really don't understand.