UA is $15 on Amazon, so you can save about $11 by purchasing the whole package on Steam. And why would you worry about backups when you can directly download the files from Steam?
Epic Gone Steam! Confirmed!
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UA is $15 on Amazon, so you can save about $11 by purchasing the whole package on Steam. And why would you worry about backups when you can directly download the files from Steam?
I wouldn't like that at all. I hate online activation for my games.
How can you even make a claim like that? There is no way to measure piracy. Also, if memory serves me right HL2 was pirated within a week after its release.
Thank you for the flame.
Your thoughts are completely wrong. Stop copy pasting the false statements made by the press.
[GU]elmur_fud;2101180 said:Words can't express how much I loathe steam.Why Epic why. First MS and now steam.
What was it that has changed for you after others maybe bought it on Steam?
I wish they would hurry up and do this already, I mean I was alittle iffy about doing it with halflife 1 but I bit the bullet and did it anyways and didnt regret it.
Now though Im wishing I could active dow, civ3, etc etc on steam so I can use its server browser or just have the "playing such and such" or the right meta ratings in my game browser instead of a shortcut. I mean cmon I can run shortcuts without the memory overhead of steam, its gotta be worth something.
Thats my biggest problem with steam currently is it just adds to the pay once, pay twice, pay three times mentality. BTW anyone want HL2? I so wish I could get rebates on other games for gifts I cant use!
Armagon, I believe you are right on Half Life 2 being less pirated than other games. However, after my read through of Tim Sweeney's interview I would say that both your's and the press' statements are a little misleading. I think they are targeting the hardware capabilities of the next generation of consoles for UE4. That seems like a good idea to me and I'm foremost a PC gamer. You should target what will be mainstream. By targeting the consoles of 2011/2012 they will be hitting what will be the upper-mid to high-end PC's.
QFT Steam is fine people. I love this too. Hopefully more people will get in too all of the UT games now.
Okay, if you don't understand why Half Life 2 was likely not pirated as much as say DOOM 3 then you aren't very intuitive. How did I come to that most likely accurate assumption? I have friends who pirate games and heard them bitching about not being able to crack it.
Next, I have a right to flame EPIC I think. 100.00 bought me that right. 100.00 of IMO wasted money. Notice IMO there. That doesn't mean I said you wasted your money. Dont be so critical.
Online activation, I started out saying most of you likely hate this. Then you type. "I wouldn't like that at all. I hate online activation for my games." Wow good to know. Had no idea. But try thinking, granted the assumption that Half LIfe 2 was pirated less because of online activation, that on the flip side it would eliminate most of EPIC's piracy woes/complaints. This might make them more receptive to concentrating on PC more.
Lots of things still not being fixed in UT3 pretty much confirms what game they're focused on and what platform. Whats the motivator? Hence my entire argument, and point. Its called intuition and its served me well in the past. This is all my opinion so don't be so offended, or whatever that was. I never say hey its like this. I say this is the way I think it likely is. So its my opinion, please calm down.
your are wrong, the new techs are not GOW2 only, Tim Sweeney stated that the improvements go to all Unreal Engine 3 versions.
it's their engine and they want to sell it, then why should they do not give all features to all plattforms?
You are correct, they are focusing on future hardware specs for consoles. Yes Tim Sweeney did mention PC and that they will be targeting that. But he mentioned every single console, even a possible nintendo console with stout hardware before PC.
This comes after all the criticism of PC by them so I'm pretty sure they're going to focus on console like Tim Sweeney said and we will likely get a port of something which in that case and IMO would not be good. I was giving my take on the article real quick in my statements about Steam. My intuition/opinion of where better sales could lead. I wasn't saying they aren't going to make any games for PC at all. If I came off that way MY BAD. I just feel we aren't likely to see a project where EPIC sits down and says. Lets make this the best PC game we can and get it working great on console as well. I think they will focus on console and PC will be an after thought.
Thanks for being polite, I would like to get back to topic though. I'll try to be more specific and not flame EPIC as much. =D
"your are wrong, the new techs are not GOW2 only, Tim Sweeney stated that the improvements go to all Unreal Engine 3 versions.
it's their engine and they want to sell it, then why should they do not give all features to all plattforms?" - Yeah you're right he did say that. See I'm thinking as a mapper and am always concerned about getting those features in MY hands. I overlooked that.
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Sorry but your friends must be pretty amateur pirates; I remember pirating----*cough* I mean I remember friends of mine pirating HL2 at in fact several steps of the development, including the final release before it was officially released (having seen earlier builds is actually why I took time before eventually buying it; I knew from personal experience that Valve's E3 demo was PR nonsense and that the AI stuff at the time was terribly prescripted...but everyone seems to have given them a pass with time over that, and yeah, I did eventually buy the game myself).
On topic, I actually hate steam both for practical and ideological (ie. privacy, restricted-model, etc) reasons, but in this instance I'm nothing but positive. Indeed, maybe it'll infuse the playerbase enough that by the time I can finally buy it and actually play it (c'mon Linux port! Insert DNF joke!) there'll actually be plenty of people online. Perhaps more importantly, hopefully this will be lucrative enough that Epic will see the virtue in continuing to develop with eyes on the PC.
If you've got a printer you're OK.
With Steam you can backup your games to DVD so as not to have to re-download them when you re-install your operating system for example.
Just print off a CD label
Though I can't imagine what a "CD wallpaper" is...
I don't care if they sold out to Steam as long as I don't have to be involved. I got a demo that came with a lot of Steam and Valve stuff. Made you jump through hoops to play. When I uninstalled the demo , all the Steam and Valve junk stayed and was a pain to get rid of. Having to deal with Gamespy is bad enough.
elmur, it's not like you have to buy it off Steam all of a sudden
Myself I kinda loathed Steam for a long time as well, with the online activation and all. Still I think it's a bad idea to lock a game to one computer, and I also think it's a bad idea to require online activation for single player games (I had a friend come over to my place once to activate his copy of Bioshock, because he has no internet connection himself...).
However, games that are actually sold via Steam are another matter, and while I'm still not a fan or anything, I think they have found a happy medium between lockdown and freedom; I even bought Portal on Steam. They were really ahead of the times when it was released, maybe too much so, but probably not because that's exactly what makes it so successful today.
Either way, the game being available on Steam can't hurt those of us that bought the boxed version. Prices would've come down anyway, and more players on the servers are a thing the game really, really needed, and needs.
Myself I kinda loathed Steam for a long time as well, with the online activation and all. Still I think it's a bad idea to lock a game to one computer, and I also think it's a bad idea to require online activation for single player games (I had a friend come over to my place once to activate his copy of Bioshock, because he has no internet connection himself...).
However, games that are actually sold via Steam are another matter, and while I'm still not a fan or anything, I think they have found a happy medium between lockdown and freedom; I even bought Portal on Steam. They were really ahead of the times when it was released, maybe too much so, but probably not because that's exactly what makes it so successful today.
Either way, the game being available on Steam can't hurt those of us that bought the boxed version. Prices would've come down anyway, and more players on the servers are a thing the game really, really needed, and needs.
Here's proof for you; Steam's top sellers list:
Both the "Unreal Deal Pack" and "Unreal Tournament 3" are in. BTW, the price of 53.95 Dollars is only when you buy before March 24. After that it's 59,95 Dollars.
Also, Anuban, I know I am going to repeat myself here, and that you say you also take the positive side of UT3 in account and stuff, but I really think your into this to much. Maybe you should let things in the UT community go for a few days, play some other games or something like that. Your focusing to much on the downsides of all the Unreal stuff.
I am not the hardcore gamer I used to be these days, and certainly not in the UT series (which I used to play 90% of the time). I play games mixed now, mainly CS:C, TF2, ETQW and UT3. I noticed myself that as soon as I took UT3 for a few runs, that I was again and again amazed by it because it has so many things done right. For example; in the first few weeks I heard Hourences, and some people complaining about the fact that it wasn't colourful (and thought he was right). After playing ETQW (or CS:C), and going back to UT3, you'll notice that is actually pretty colourful, and that it is actually a nice trade-off between the easy on the eyes cartoony, unrealistic TF2(/UT2K4) and the realistic grey/brown/black of ETQW/CS:C.
You can make a shortcut in your Steamgames tab if that is what you want. Just click on "ad non steam game" left under in your games tab (or something like that, I don't have the English version). It will show up allot of programs and one of them wil be "UT3 Editor". That is the one you need (I don't know why it shows up wrong). You can rename it, once you added it, by rightclicking on the UT3 icon and selecting properties.
Yep. Deleting a folder and it's content is really hard. And don't tell me it is that simple registry entry you are concerned about.
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Epic had never said that these features will be exclusive to Gears. They will be available for every licensee, thus, on any supported platform.
The bit twiddling geeks always assume everyone else is. I'm a truck mechanic. I got it all out of my machine . Of course you have to find all the things they hid. There must be a reason the uninstall doesn't remove everything. It's not like you can go to add/remove and find what they put in. Now we have the possibility that the next patch will carry some extra baggage too.
Awesome news.
Check.
Anyway, are the Unreal 1-UT-Unreal 2-UT2k4 versions the ones from the Anthology or the standalone releases?
Check.
Anyway, are the Unreal 1-UT-Unreal 2-UT2k4 versions the ones from the Anthology or the standalone releases?