Comments on: Crysis Release Moves Forward

By: Mario Granger

Mario Granger — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:49:48 +0000

Oh, and the biggest issue with Steam naysayers isnt an issue of its functionality, but of the control Valve has over the content you purchase.

There was an issue just a few weeks ago where people were buying copies of the Orange Box from Asian retailers for much lower price points than if they were to purchase the game on the American dollar. Once Valve realized this, they invalidated the copies of those who bought the game from Asian retailers while on U.S. IP addresses.

It strtkes many people as envasive, ang a ptetty big issue.

By: Mario Granger

Mario Granger — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:30:53 +0000

As much as I love Steam, the price of games over time drops much slower than their retail boxed equivalents. Beyond that though, Steam is great.

By: po

po — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:42:55 +0000

I’m really feeling the steamy love right now. I dug out my old HL1 cd and put the code in. Seems the bog standard £14.99 copy I got all those years ago is now counted as platinum pack, so I’m doing SFA while steam does all the work installing CS, DoD, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Ricochet and TF classic, along with the HL and HL:DM I had.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:38:26 +0000

Steam has improved a lot since it started. By the sounds of it EA link just got worse. No real surprise there though.

By: Chis

Chis — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:23:31 +0000

I can’t imagine the EA Store being up to Steam’s current standards. Which were troublesome (I’m being polite) in 2004, but having caved in and gave it another go this year to buy the Orange Box… it ran with no problems. I had OB within a couple of days.

I will be buying Crysis though, but it’ll be a boxed copy.

By: po

po — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:40:05 +0000

I got a boxed copy of HL2 back in 2004, but got sick of having to wait at least 5 minutes for steam to do it’s business just to play, so I cracked it and gave up on ever playing it online.

I got the OB on steam recently though, as I moved house and couldn’t wait for my bank details to update for a delivery based order. Now I’m really impressed with steam, especially how fast their downloads are. I got the whole OB overnight and my connection was at full speed all the way. My steam account was still there from 2004, with my old copy of HL2 still available for download.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:08:00 +0000

For all the naysayers who hate Steam I must say that I haven’t had a single issue with it. When HL2 came out I was playing 30mins after release time, and I have bought several games on Steam at a cheap price and have master copies backed up on DVD.

Can’t see me touching the EA store with a poohey pole to be honest. I’ll get a boxed copy of Crysis (if I bother)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:40:38 +0000

Well according to the Wikipedia article it says that EA Link customers prior to EA Store will keep their downloads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Link

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:27:26 +0000

Does it effect new purchases only or prior to the change as well? Not that I’m ever buying or re-downloading anything with it again, piece of crap that it is.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:08:27 +0000

Nick, in the beginning (EA Link) there was no limit, when they a couple of week ago changed to EA Store using the EA Downloader they changed this policy.

So now you have 6 months, extendable to 2 years, and apparently, but not confirmed, no other recourse but repurchasing the game after the 2 year period in case you lose the download.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:56:20 +0000

The EA store was a joke from it’s inception, it barely worked (for all I know it’s still broken) and was rather ugly and clearly a pathetic attempt at a Steam clone. The 6 month thing, is that a recent developement? I don’t recall reading about it when I bought one of the (waste of money, utterly useless and never played online) booster packs for BF2.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:00:07 +0000

As far as i’ve been told as well, when you purchase a title through the EA Store for download, and you then extend the 6 months to 24 months(costs 6$), then after those 24 months, you’ll be unable to extend it again.

Meaning after 6 months you have to pay 6$, and after 24 months you have to buy the game again.

Granted i did only hear that from people and not EA themselves, but it doesn’t matter much as the download limit itself is stupid to begin with.

I must say though, if it really is an answer to the leak it’s the first time i’ve seen a company actively respond against piracy in this way, i just hope it benefits retail users as well.