Steam, Game.co.uk & Supreme Commander 2

Glaucus

Glaucus

Glaucus

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WTF

SC2 on steam is £29.99
SC2 on game download is £9.95

So I go and buy it on Game, click the file download, which just opens up a pdf, going type the serial code into steam and download through steam.

So WTF are steam doing, losing bandwidth and money. Am I missing something?
Also brilliant I like all download games being on steam, so win win.
 
:D hey top plan.... Buy a game online and download via steam..!! Game.co.uk aren't being silly here. Saves them bandwidth, and you get your game listed in Steam and can download via steam whenever to as many machines as you need...

Top idea.. All games should be like this.
 
Guest2 said:
Is it worth a tenner? Some people have said its not at good as Supreme 1

Think i'll just just stick at Starcraft 2 beta
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I'd say it is yea. It's not as good as supcom, but it's still fun to play. All Aion units can now 'blink' stalkerstyle which is fun to play with :D
 
hmmm. Think i'll save myself a tenner and put it towards Starcraft 2 as I havent bought it yet. 4 vs 4 games that take 30minutes to get to highest supply and ends up in a huge battle is where its at (instead of taking an hour just to get a few units)
 
Steam are told what prices the games have to be by the distributor.

Thanks for the heads up though, probably worth trying this for a tenner me thinks.

Edit: Bah, beaten.
 
For the comment on pricing:

Valve, and thereby Steam, do NOT set the prices on Steam. The developers do. They know, that via Steam they can get a bigger slice of the income. In the shops, the retails (to some extent) and the developers take a bigger hit in the pricing department. If the developers sells the game on Steam for £30, they probably see around £20-25 come back to them. If they sell it in a shop, I would imagine they get less return, maybe around £10-15 (don't quote me on numbers, I'm purely guessing here).

So, there you have it. The basic idea being, they can make more money on Steam, so feel justified to sell it at a higher price (they also know people hate having discs for games).
 
I wouldn't be all that surprised if steam got a cut of the profit no matter who sold the copy. Its unlikely steam would offer up unlimited downloads of the game for eternity for copies not even purchased through them if they weren't getting anything.

Tempting to maybe get it at £10, definatly wasn't worth the full price imo.
 
Guest2 said:
hmmm. Think i'll save myself a tenner and put it towards Starcraft 2 as I havent bought it yet. 4 vs 4 games that take 30minutes to get to highest supply and ends up in a huge battle is where its at (instead of taking an hour just to get a few units)
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I suggest you learn how to play the game :p you can get the big hitters like Monkeylord experimental in under 15 minutes if you know how to gather resources properly...

Still, I wouldn't recommend Supreme Commander 2 versus the first one.
 
I bought it a week or so ago from game for £9 boxed copy, it installs no probs from the dvd but be prepared to download a 4 gig patch via steam :(

game is really really good, you dont need a turbo nutter PC to run at full detail.. worth the money.
 
chaparral said:
You must have downloaded the whole game through steam as the steam SC2 game folder is only 4.3GB
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Not with the way SC2 stores its files. The textures are all in a huge 1Gb file, if they make a change, even to a single texture, because of the way Steam patches, or rather doesn't, you have to redownload the whole 1Gb file.

300Mb for units, 400 for maps, it all adds up.
 
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