Not specifically buy stuff off it -- but simply accounts, well we know its more than the number of people, at least, who own HalfLife2.
That's already over a few million.
Epic Gone Steam! Confirmed!
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That's already over a few million.
I'm actually hoping that this will strengthen Epic in the direction of PC gaming, and give them things to think about while developing Unreal Engine 4. Maybe some more popularity and a cool download service is all they need to change their direction.
You might as well complain that all the games you bought 5 years ago are cheaper and how come you had to pay 50$ when they came out.
So, basically, it's only millions of accounts. Not millions of users? I have an account I rarely use. Not since Roboblitz.
15 million accounts
More than 1.2 million users logged in right this second
People who only bought one game and haven't used it since, you say? "year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season."
Are a lot of those people those who stay logged in 24/7? Sure. But of the 50+ active Steam users on my friends list, most of which who are hardcore PC gamers, a good 50% of them are *NOT* logged in all the time.
Actually they have 15 million active accounts. They don't count accounts that have no activity.
Easy promise to make, potentially hard to deliver.
If Steam shuts down as the result of (say) Valve entering bankruptcy (I can't see any other even remotely likely reasons) then the promise is worthless. The Steam user base is an asset of the company and at best, Steam users would join other creditors in attempting to get their money back or hope that the service could be sold as a going concern (and that is assuming that the "promise" is actually part of the Ts&Cs and not some PR vapourware).
For the record, "Valve entering bankruptcy" is an example and not a prediction.
I have no reason to suppose that there is any imminent danger of such an event.![[GU]elmur_fud](/data/avatars/s/47/47919.jpg?1425583194){kind=avatar}
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I doubt it. Steam is only supposedly more secure... The people stealing games off steam can't play them online but they can still steal em.
I just hope that UT3 going on steam will generate more people to play online because at the moment is a very lonely place. UT2004 has more populated servers than UT3
It seems like many are against Epic Games putting UT3 and what not on steam. If you people out their don't like steam, oh well don't use it. Epic can do what they want with their game, so why not just let them, and deal with it. No need to argue between people who trust Steam or why you should hate it.
I hear about all these privacy issues. Its annoying to me to listen to people innocently claiming privacy issues with windows and programs when it really does not need to be said at all since this community has nothing to do with that.. If your that worried about privacy, don't do things on the computer that could reveal any information about you to people over the internet. Not using the computer for storing personal information that people could use sounds like the perfect fix to this problem.
I hear about all these privacy issues. Its annoying to me to listen to people innocently claiming privacy issues with windows and programs when it really does not need to be said at all since this community has nothing to do with that.. If your that worried about privacy, don't do things on the computer that could reveal any information about you to people over the internet. Not using the computer for storing personal information that people could use sounds like the perfect fix to this problem.
It's automatic...
It could be me, but my cynical brain keeps rearranging that headline as:
Epic Gone! Steam Confirmed!
It could be me, but my cynical brain keeps rearranging that headline as:
Epic Gone! Steam Confirmed!
IAWTP, as they say (err, is that common on the BU forums? Man, I've been around since UT but I only seem to interact on the forums here in tiny spikes; I Agree With This Post is what I mean).
As an alternate via-download install method, I know when I installed ET:QW I only used my DVD because it would be faster; if at some point I lose my DVD but I still have my CD key written down somewhere, I can just use the -nomedia torrent and then the files online as torrents or on iD's FTP to install from. Yeah, that's right, to distribute the media for the games they use torrents, and Steam is considered the future of gaming? Also worth noting that my login is tied to my key in the sense that I can log into my account using anyone's copy of ET:QW, I can just add my account to their account list as simply as typing in my username and password. And hey, then the stats are all recorded (link). See, I think THAT is far more what the future of online gaming and distribution should be like. And that's why I hate Steam, it offers instead a needlessly restrictive model (and bonus anti-points from my perspective for not officially running on Linux, although one can use Wine pretty easily; hell, Portal even works without any fiddling, and really, what other Valve game is worth playing
).That being said it's worth reiterating that I'm part of the faction here that strongly dislikes Steam, is nonetheless fairly positive about this development, but would run far away if Steam became the only distribution method for future games from Epic (personally I love the "hard copy, but you don't need the hard copy" system of games like ET:QW).
I think it's a great deal and I do hope it brings in a few extra players.
I've had no problems with Steam so being able to buy the game through Steam is great news. I've been missing UT99 also, and its cheap so I'll definitely get that.
I've had no problems with Steam so being able to buy the game through Steam is great news. I've been missing UT99 also, and its cheap so I'll definitely get that.
Lemme guess... cause i insulted your beloved piece of crap you got from epic in november? Sorry if the truth hurt you that badly... Oh wait, no i'm not.
Well, I uninstalled UT3 weeks (months?) ago, because I absolutely do not like it (except parts of the infantry-gametypes gameplay).
EDIT: I think I installed late 2007, very early 2008.
Now, guess again.
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