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.
18/12/2008 at 09:04 MisterBritish says:
How many Peggles is it?
18/12/2008 at 09:13 Gap Gen says:
Just tell him you know anyway, to look smart.
18/12/2008 at 09:13 Kieron Gillen says:
Aw, man. That was the best of our retired gags.
KG
18/12/2008 at 09:18 Mr Pink says:
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!
18/12/2008 at 09:22 Heliocentric says:
How long before the_b joins the hivemind? He gets name checked more often than the cradle.
18/12/2008 at 09:33 Seniath says:
This reminds me, I’ve still barely touched Peggle Nights. Does this make me a Bad Man?
18/12/2008 at 09:34 James G says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 09:34 Flubb says:
In other bad news, Steam has swapped me over to GB Sterling without me wanting to :(
18/12/2008 at 09:53 Gap Gen says:
The_B is scarier than Cradle.
18/12/2008 at 10:10 SKACE says:
How long it takes to create this “bonus”? 1 Hour?… Relase editor please!!!
18/12/2008 at 10:13 Tony says:
Lucky you didn’t post this yesterday it may have exploded into the Top 10 AIM Angerers.
18/12/2008 at 10:21 klo8 says:
Is this the same version like the one that went with the Orange Box?
18/12/2008 at 10:25 SKACE says:
No its better… On my laptop the resolution of screen is horrible and only 4:3 …
18/12/2008 at 10:28 SKACE says:
I mean only in this game
18/12/2008 at 10:33 Psychopomp says:
Um…Obviously?
18/12/2008 at 11:47 Eamo says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 11:57 ChaosSmurf says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 12:04 Eamo says:
@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.
18/12/2008 at 12:09 Eamo says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 12:28 ChaosSmurf says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 12:28 Gap Gen says:
I heard Peggle had a piracy rate of 134%.
18/12/2008 at 12:33 Zuffox says:
Remember to get the Holiday pack for Peggle Nights – you know, for those of you true Peggle fans who bought the sequel recklessly.
18/12/2008 at 12:50 Calabi says:
I cannot see the fun in bouncing balls about.
18/12/2008 at 12:53 Down Rodeo says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 12:54 itsallcrap says:
If you heard it and it can be used to argue for stricter DRM, then it’s definitely true.
18/12/2008 at 12:58 itsallcrap says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 13:14 Duke Nasty VI says:
Peggle is a portal to the future.
18/12/2008 at 13:27 Duke Nasty VI says:
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.
18/12/2008 at 15:54 cliffski says:
I’m sure 2DBoy will appreciate it more too.
18/12/2008 at 16:01 The_B says:
Thahe_B
Damn my name, it doesn’t make the joke work as well. :(
18/12/2008 at 16:33 TonicBH says:
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!
19/12/2008 at 00:39 Nick says:
@The_B: Or, indeed, at all.
20/12/2008 at 01:14 The_B says:
THAT NEVER STOPPED ME & JOKES BEFORE!