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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:13 pm
Post subject: Eidos Gets Steamy With Valve
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"Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and
developers of entertainment software, and ValveŽ today announce an
agreement to deliver dozens of new and best-selling PC titles via
Steam.
This first agreement includes complete franchise sets of classics such
as Tomb Raider, Commandos, and many of the Hitman titles. In addition,
Eidos is bringing some of this year's most highly anticipated releases
to Steam, including Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Championship Manager
2007, and more."
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:38 pm
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:13:06 +0000, Andrew <spamtrap RemoveThis @127.0.0.1> wrote:
>http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/773/773042p1.html
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>"Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and
>developers of entertainment software, and ValveŽ today announce an
>agreement to deliver dozens of new and best-selling PC titles via
>Steam.
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>This first agreement includes complete franchise sets of classics such
>as Tomb Raider, Commandos, and many of the Hitman titles. In addition,
>Eidos is bringing some of this year's most highly anticipated releases
>to Steam, including Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Championship Manager
>2007, and more."
Hmm - 24 mins since posting and no PC Gamer rant ?
He's slacking off... |
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:22 pm
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:13:06 +0000, Andrew <spamtrap DeleteThis @127.0.0.1> wrote:
>http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/773/773042p1.html
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>"Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and
>developers of entertainment software, and ValveŽ today announce an
>agreement to deliver dozens of new and best-selling PC titles via
>Steam.
>
>This first agreement includes complete franchise sets of classics such
>as Tomb Raider, Commandos, and many of the Hitman titles. In addition,
>Eidos is bringing some of this year's most highly anticipated releases
>to Steam, including Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Championship Manager
>2007, and more."
That's good news. I might be tempted to buy some games that I've
passed up over the years. Particularly the 3rd person type.
That's got to be good for the industry if it causes people to buy
games.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:32 am
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Rob wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:13:06 +0000, Andrew <spamtrap.DeleteThis@127.0.0.1> wrote:
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>> http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/773/773042p1.html
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>> "Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and
>> developers of entertainment software, and ValveŽ today announce an
>> agreement to deliver dozens of new and best-selling PC titles via
>> Steam.
>>
>> This first agreement includes complete franchise sets of classics such
>> as Tomb Raider, Commandos, and many of the Hitman titles. In addition,
>> Eidos is bringing some of this year's most highly anticipated releases
>> to Steam, including Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Championship Manager
>> 2007, and more."
>
>
> That's good news. I might be tempted to buy some games that I've
> passed up over the years. Particularly the 3rd person type.
Not me - not at those prices Rob. The Commandos games are less than a
fiver each at play.com.
> That's got to be good for the industry if it causes people to buy
> games.
Agree with the sentiment but while Valve and Steam get many things just
right the one they do not seem to be able to get their heads around is
competitive pricing. |
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:32 am
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:32:19 +0000, Shawk <shawk RemoveThis @clara.co.uk.3guesses>
wrote:
>Agree with the sentiment but while Valve and Steam get many things just
>right the one they do not seem to be able to get their heads around is
>competitive pricing.
Buy the boxed version and do the STEAM install... You have a hard copy
if STEAM ever shits the bed, and you have an install with CD check
removed if it doesn't.
I'm not a fanatic like PCGames, but this is how I've been using STEAM,
and most likely the only way I'll use it. |
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:24 am
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:32:19 +0000, Shawk <shawk.DeleteThis@clara.co.uk.3guesses>
wrote:
>Agree with the sentiment but while Valve and Steam get many things just
>right the one they do not seem to be able to get their heads around is
>competitive pricing.
It's often quoted in Valve's defence that they do not set the price on
Steam, the publisher/developer does, but you've got to wonder what
pubs/devs are thinking putting a product on Steam at rates sometimes 3
times the current retail, particularly for older titles.
If they honour retail keys on Steam then it's not much of an issue, but
when they don't and the price is kept high for longer on Steam you do
have to wonder how this will bode for the future when retail is
eventually not offered as an option.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:22 am
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:22:13 GMT, Rob
<noemailformethx.DeleteThis@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
>That's good news. I might be tempted to buy some games that I've
>passed up over the years. Particularly the 3rd person type.
Tomb Raider Legend is excellent if you missed out on that one,
although I played that one on the 360 as my aging PC couldn't run it
in "nextgen" graphics mode.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:04 am
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FoolsGold <fg.RemoveThis@gmail.com> writes:
> Andrew wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:22:13 GMT, Rob
>> <noemailformethx.RemoveThis@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
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>>> That's good news. I might be tempted to buy some games that I've
>>> passed up over the years. Particularly the 3rd person type.
>>
>> Tomb Raider Legend is excellent if you missed out on that one,
>> although I played that one on the 360 as my aging PC couldn't run it
>> in "nextgen" graphics mode.
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> Next-gen mode was a curious beast. Apart from requiring, well.. a
> beast of a machine, the actual result was debatable as to whether the
> game looked better or not. The lighting and textures were better, but
> Lara looked kinda weird in many situations with nextgen enabled. Even
> if the frame rates were playable (which they normally weren't), I'd
> say the regular mode was overall nicer-looking than nextgen.
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> I hear TR: Anniversary won't even have a next-gen, but we'll see. If
> they did there would've been screenies by now showing this.
It was good. Played it on the PS2 until the first big boss guy running
around the balcony. I hate boss guys and just gave up  Lack of moral
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:07 am
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Andrew <spamtrap.TakeThisOut@127.0.0.1> writes:
> http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/773/773042p1.html
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> "Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and
> developers of entertainment software, and ValveŽ today announce an
> agreement to deliver dozens of new and best-selling PC titles via
> Steam.
>
> This first agreement includes complete franchise sets of classics such
> as Tomb Raider, Commandos, and many of the Hitman titles. In addition,
> Eidos is bringing some of this year's most highly anticipated releases
> to Steam, including Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Championship Manager
> 2007, and more."
As I said a while back, if Valve make Steam relatively high quality and
developers see a way of getting games out with approx zero cost in terms
of duplication, etc then they will come.
Valve can sit back and rake it in now. They are going to be seriously
well off.
Like it or not, digital delivery IS the way of the future. |
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:01 am
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On Mar 15, 10:56 pm, i own a yacht <m....TakeThisOut@privacy.net> wrote:
> but but.. what happens to steam when valve goes out of business?
I remember reading an article some time back where Gabe said that they
can flick a switch and disable Steam in that situation: so if they
went out of business with no-one wanting to buy them out, they would
presumably just do that.
But I think the odds of them going out of business and not finding a
buyer for at least that part of the company would be slim. Steam is
pretty well established and has to have a decent value for some game
distributor.
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:22 am
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:13 am
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Walter Mitty wrote:
> Valve can sit back and rake it in now. They are going to be seriously
> well off.
And their games are getting shorter and delayed more and more. Maybe EP2
will be different...
> Like it or not, digital delivery IS the way of the future.
But it need not be in the oppressive auto-update way of Steam. The recent
problems with EP1 show that this is not the best solution.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:20 am
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Alfie [UK] wrote:
> It's often quoted in Valve's defence that they do not set the price on
> Steam, the publisher/developer does, but you've got to wonder what
> pubs/devs are thinking putting a product on Steam at rates sometimes 3
> times the current retail, particularly for older titles.
Maybe the developers set the price at the current retail level and Valve
adds the rumoured 50%(?) for Steam  ?
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:48 pm
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Werner Spahl <spahl.DeleteThis@cup.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Walter Mitty wrote:
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>> Valve can sit back and rake it in now. They are going to be seriously
>> well off.
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> And their games are getting shorter and delayed more and more. Maybe
> EP2 will be different...
Their "games"? I like them delaying. They produce good quality games.
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>> Like it or not, digital delivery IS the way of the future.
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> But it need not be in the oppressive auto-update way of Steam. The
> recent problems with EP1 show that this is not the best solution.
Then turn auto update off. You have been told this 100000000 times. If
you play ONLINE then you have to update anyway. Why does such an
obviously intelligent person like yourself feel the need to tell so many
lies about Steam? No, Steam is not perfect. But its pretty damn
good. The convenience alone is worth *my* money. You pays your money and
you takes your choie? Dont like it? Dont buy the games. Vote with your
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:50 pm
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Walter Mitty wrote:
> Their "games"? I like them delaying. They produce good quality games.
The quality or at least the length of HL:EP1 left a lot to desired...
> Then turn auto update off. You have been told this 100000000 times.
And you have been told 10000000 times that novices don't know about this
until it's to late and I'm still not clear if you can authenticate a newly
bought game without it updating on the first try to connect to Steam...
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