By Kieron Gillen on December 18th, 2008 at 9:03 am.
While we’re all deep in the “Man, remember that 2008!” demi-ironic naval-gazing, let’s take it further. Remember 2007? Ah, those were amazing days. Remember Peggle Extreme, the Orange-Box-included bonus mini-Peggle game? That headcrab on the unicorns head was funny and similar and… oh, no, can’t stretch this out. Peggle Extreme is now free to anyone with a Steam account. If you haven’t played it yet for some reason, get it from here.
When the_B told me about this, I told him that I knew about it already. But I didn’t! What I was thinking about was the free new level pack for Peggle Nights. So thanks, The_B.
How many Peggles is it?
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Just tell him you know anyway, to look smart.
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Aw, man. That was the best of our retired gags.
KG
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This is essentially a glorified demo. It was good enough to make me buy the original afterwards though, so job done on Popcap’s part!
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How long before the_b joins the hivemind? He gets name checked more often than the cradle.
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This reminds me, I’ve still barely touched Peggle Nights. Does this make me a Bad Man?
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He’s trying to join the Hivemind by stealth, gradually feeding it tips and pointers until it finds it unable to find stories on its own. Then the_B can reveal its (for the_B is a robot really) trump card, and threaten to withdrawal its support unless it becomes a true part of the Hivemind. Or Not.
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In other bad news, Steam has swapped me over to GB Sterling without me wanting to :(
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The_B is scarier than Cradle.
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How long it takes to create this “bonus”? 1 Hour?… Relase editor please!!!
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Lucky you didn’t post this yesterday it may have exploded into the Top 10 AIM Angerers.
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Is this the same version like the one that went with the Orange Box?
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No its better… On my laptop the resolution of screen is horrible and only 4:3 …
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I mean only in this game
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Um…Obviously?
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Ah well, free items is the only ones I will be buying on steam for now. I log in today and see they have changed me over to euro prices.
The exchange rate you get €1 = $1. This is basically a 30-40% price hike on every single steam game, now you dont have to pay vat anymore but its still a 15% price hike after that. Now, I love steam and used it a lot. The account worth calculator at http://www.alabasterslim.com/worth.php tells me I have $1068.18 worth of games in my steam account but that change means I won’t be purchasing there anymore.
I will still use steam for the very convenient installer / uninstaller / patcher but it will be back to buying boxes in stores and just registering the cd-key on steam.
It was good while it lasted.
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EDIT: Yeah I’m a dumbass, nevermind.
@Eamo:
You sure it did a 1 -> 1 conversion? When it changed to pounds for me some things were a lot cheaper.
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@ChaosSmurf
1 Euro = 1.46 USD
Since the price conversion they used is just changing the currency sign in front so that a game that used to cost $19.99 now costs €19.99 that is a 46% price hike to be exact (subtract the 22% vat you pay in ireland and it leaves a 24% price hike).
I am guessing you don’t know the difference between a £ (Brittish Pound) sign and the € (Euro) sign. Maybe if I lived in the UK it would be less difference.
I wonder if the powers that be in valve realise that the programmer tasked with Euro support just stuck the line “replace(‘$’, ‘€’)” at the end of the store script and called the job done.
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What happened to the exclamation point before the = on my last post. ChaosSmurf I didn’t look at every single price and there may be some exceptions but the front page prices are all just swapped with that lazy 1 to 1 conversion.
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Yeah, I confused $ with £, thought you were saying they’d converted from dollars to pounds and then just changed the sign.
Interesting that they’ve been retarded with the euro pricing and not the £ pricing. Hope its a mistake or they’re likely to lose some sales – there really isn’t much excuse for a Steam title to cost _much_ more than a store bought box. Minimum charge for the install anywhere ability and ease of purchase shouldn’t even go above the amount saved for not paying for a box, manual, CD and machine time for all of those.
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I heard Peggle had a piracy rate of 134%.
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Remember to get the Holiday pack for Peggle Nights – you know, for those of you true Peggle fans who bought the sequel recklessly.
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I cannot see the fun in bouncing balls about.
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I remember Peggle Extreme – it made me buy the full game too. Never did get Nights though. Perhaps in a weaker moment I will, sometime.
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If you heard it and it can be used to argue for stricter DRM, then it’s definitely true.
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On a more relevant note, this package is the first place I played peggle, and I love it.
It’s exactly the right amount of peggle – playing through the full version I found myself getting bored towards the end even though I was too addicted to stop anyway.
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Peggle is a portal to the future.
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I just noticed World of Goo is sold for €20 on Steam, and for $20 directly from 2D Boys’ website. That means I’ll save £6 / $9 / €6 if I omit Steam. Should be an easy choice to make.
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I’m sure 2DBoy will appreciate it more too.
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Thahe_B
Damn my name, it doesn’t make the joke work as well. :(
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This game wasted some of my time when I didn’t wanna play Portal or TF2. And now everybody will experience Peggle’s addicting nature.
Now… how about a two-for-the-price-of-one deal on original Peggle and Peggle Nights? Come on Popcap, don’t be that stingy!
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@The_B: Or, indeed, at all.
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THAT NEVER STOPPED ME & JOKES BEFORE!
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