I would hate to have everything combined I definitely don't want sony having anything to do with it or Microsoft or EA... Steam is fine the way it is but EA are not helping the issue.
EA Removes Recently Released Games from Steam
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I would hate to have everything combined I definitely don't want sony having anything to do with it or Microsoft or EA... Steam is fine the way it is but EA are not helping the issue.
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It would work with a totally independant third party...but that doesn't exist, and Valve are the least dickish of the current publishers.
so basically a monopoly where they could charge £60 a game and have zero competition?
Passwords, process's, accounts, emails, patches, advertising, stores, spam, offers, and betas.
NO, I JUST WANT TO PLAY A GAME! STRESS FREE YOU *********.
So im going to need a Blizzard launcher an NCsoft launcher, STEAM, and origins, oh and GFWL .
Lets hope Microsoft messes it up even more with windows 8
NO, I JUST WANT TO PLAY A GAME! STRESS FREE YOU *********.
So im going to need a Blizzard launcher an NCsoft launcher, STEAM, and origins, oh and GFWL .
Lets hope Microsoft messes it up even more with windows 8
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Brinks removal is no big loss same goes for crysis 2. I love steam, always them for any downloads and if I can't get it off steam then I buy the retail copy, origin will never get a penny off me.
Unless they got some cracking deals on.
Unless they got some cracking deals on.
Well it could be called something like pc gamer, and you just need that to play the games and buy it digitally an the retail would make the competition. There should also be an option to have the game streamed to you with every game you buy like on onlive so people dont have to worry much about specs. This means more purchases for pc game and therefore more time spent on them.
Its never going to happen retail can't compete with digital which means they would be over priced and there would never be sales and onlive is terrible imo.
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Well **** Origin.
I installed it, thought I'd give it a shot. Nope, can't link half the EA games I already own and the half the ones that do link want me to reinstall even though they are already installed.
I just spent about 30 mins on the EA customer support chat to have them eventually tell me that I will never be able to link half my games to Origin and that they have no solution to the linked games wanting to reininstall.
Well thanks for nothing. Uninstalled.
I installed it, thought I'd give it a shot. Nope, can't link half the EA games I already own and the half the ones that do link want me to reinstall even though they are already installed.
I just spent about 30 mins on the EA customer support chat to have them eventually tell me that I will never be able to link half my games to Origin and that they have no solution to the linked games wanting to reininstall.
Well thanks for nothing. Uninstalled.
LOL - Well said.
Brinks removal is no big loss same goes for crysis 2. I love steam, always them for any downloads and if I can't get it off steam then I buy the retail copy, origin will never get a penny off me.
Unless they got some cracking deals on.
BRINK wasn't for sale on steam anyway, not in the last few months if it ever has been. You have to buy it via retail or another online distributor and then install it via steam as it uses steam cloud. Its ironic that D2D's marketing is saying "not on steam!" when you have to use the program if you actually intend to play it anyway lol
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I'd have thought any games done recently are possible, but getting their entire back catalogue that pre-dates EADM on there is another matter. Especially when they were only publishers of those games, and the keys are all using different methods to validate.
As for the linked games, I'm not sure what you'd expect? If you installed a (non-steamworks) game from retail (e.g. prey) then activated it's code on Steam, it wouldn't count it as installed in your games list, you'd be made to reinstall it in exactly the same way...
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i guess the next thing to happen if this is a ar between valve/ea is vavle getting a different publisher for console games like portal.
Steam today removed 2 bethesda games (Brink & Hunted
It's starting to become more and more obvious steam are not the good guys that everyone seems to believe they are.
Why does them removing a couple games from the store make them 'not the good guys'? You have no idea why they were removed or what their contract terms are, so can't make that assumption.
(Not that I see them as good guys in the first place - rather a more customer friendly company than their competition)
This also seems pretty fair to me. Obviously steam don't want to offer a game where their customers will feel like they have been shortchanged due to exclusive content being offered elsewhere. I think that firmly nudges them towards this 'good guys' area.
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I don't need to rely on a list in Steam to remember mates who play the same game, I didn't need it during BF1942, BF2 or 2142. Steam is fantastic, I agree it's the best there is but again Impulse and EA Origin all work fine for me also.
Regarding pricing, I have managed to pre-order BF3 from EA for under £20 same with Shift 2 and many other games, considerably cheaper than most new releases via Steam. I buy my software wherever I find it the cheapest or I wait for sales/reductions and I simply don't care who is selling it or what client I need.
i prefer origin (ea download manager) to steam so i dont really care to be honest but the only game i see removed is crysis 2. what's all the fuss about? valve had it coming for a long time blind fanboys might believe otherwise but steam is far from perfect.
Who do you use as your preferred Digital distributor then or do you mainly buy retail?