Comments on: World Of Goo Vs European Steam

By: nhattruong

nhattruong — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:10:23 +0000

thank you for sharing
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By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:09:45 +0000

I spotted that Justin, so I just got it directly from 2D Boy’s site. :)

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:56:04 +0000

It appears to be unavailable on the European WiiWare site, too :(

By: compuguy1088

compuguy1088 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:24:56 +0000

http://2dboy.com/2008/10/18/pre-orders-steam/

As of this post, the “Magic Key” is now working with steam.

By: Poet

Poet — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:10:39 +0000

Well at least you Europeans qualify for the compos here.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:52:16 +0000

Excuse my stupidity about the time. Clearly I should buy a badge that says fail.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:51:01 +0000

Argh, I thought it was something like that; I tried to buy last night. This is disappointing, so 2DBoy here I come.

As regards to Steam, I am now with internet the vast majority of the time. Also I play TF2 mostly now. So really internet is not a problem.

And my final shot, about EA and Crysis and nonsense: what tits. Steam, as far as I can tell, is very secure. I want to buy and play Crysis (admittedly not immediately) and probably will get it on Steam for simplicity. Thing is, if I were to build my own computer, something I plan to do and would need to do for Crysis, I’d install Ubuntu first before forking out for Vista (God knows I’ll be very upset when that day comes). If I decide to try to play it via Wine first does that count as an install, even though it is the same computer? I have a feeling it would do. This makes me want to mash my keyboard in annoyance, frustration and sheer anger but I am more sensible than that and realise that mindless keyboard spam does not endear oneself to the RPS Blogmasters.

Also, it isn’t half one, assuming you’re not in a different timezone as you bring us disappointing news.

And to keep on track, I will purchase World of Goo this evening I think. See if I can’t get it Steamed.

By: Weylund

Weylund — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:01:07 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for all your responses. I’m glad I asked.

I do tend to lose game CDs as well… and I have two kids, a toddler and a pre-adolescent, both of whom (intentionally and unintentionally, respectively) destroy my game media with terrible regularity, which is why I’ve switched to direct downloads in the past couple years.

I don’t really lose installers, though — and if I do, the services I get them from don’t usually have problems with re-grabbing them.

Also, I often install on machines on which I won’t have an internet connection — I have a number of laptops, some of them older and hard to get connected, and I occasionally find myself on the road wanting to game with one of them. I’ll give Steam a try, but it sounds like my needs might be better met with traditional installers.

We’ll see!

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:44:13 +0000

So if you try to install Crysis through Steam on more than 3 machines (or whatever the machine limit is) it fails?

By: Saflo

Saflo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:32:42 +0000

Crysis and Crysis Jr. both have the install limit on Steam.

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:23:04 +0000

@roryok

I’ve read EA is still putting SecureRom on games even if they’re on Steam. If someone can confirm this either way, I’d like to hear it.

By: roryok

roryok — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:53:25 +0000

hmmm… you’re right of course.

I don’t think it diminishes my point though. Halflife was the sugar coating people required to swallow steam. (ouch)

And I’m glad we got it, because it was that or more securerom / starforce. I’m also very glad Far Cry 2 is on steam, because that only gives people more reason to use steam, and it also allows me to deftly side-step the SecureRom bullshit parade.