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[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="14" id="2690338"] Actually Steamworks is now on the ps3 too. [/quote] And if you actually knew anything about Steamworks, you'd know you can pick and choose what parts you want to use or not. PS3 version is just syncing Steam achievements, cloud save files, and downloading of updates. People would take you a lot more seriously if you actually read links, did some research, and didn't think D2D became an affiliate of Steam. @<a id="ctl00__Co

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="5" id="2690253"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 4Getting mine from Amazon. Mafia II Does it make a difference? Retail Mafia II will install and play with steam, won't it?[/quote] If you bothered to actually click the link, you'd see it's the PS3 version. But yes, 2kgames is going full Steamworks. They're doing it for Civ 5, so why not Mafia II. You can complain all you want, but until Steam does s

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="131" id="2689737"] Think would work, but Steam doesn't sell just Valve games like how Sprint stores sell Sprint phones. Steam sells games for everyone. It would be like that independent company (D2D) advertising for a different independent phone shop, except that phone shop (Steam) is a couple blocks closer to your house than the other one.[/quote] Sprint store does cell non-Sprint exclusive phones. They just rebrand them with Sprint.&n

[quote who="Nesrie"] Best Buy doesn't really compete with ATT and Verizon directly. [/quote] Their cellphone section obviously does. @ZehDon: Except D2D doesn't make or publish their own games. You guys keep bringing up first party vs first party examples, which have no relevance. D2D is not a Ford lot selling Volvos. It's a used car lot selling Ford, Volvos, and anything it can get its hands on. Just FYI, Ford lots will sell Volvo, Honda, Toyota, and other brands of c

[quote who="Tridus" reply="1" id="2689310"]Sigh. Why oh why can't they just do Simcity 5 instead? The world doesn't deserve this kind of shabby treatment.[/quote] This. They just need to release a modern Simcity, with a decent engine. Spore was one of the biggest game disappointments of all time for me.

[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="12" id="2689183"]Anyway, I played through the game on easy. It was alot of fun and took only about 2 and 1/2 hours. I could see myself paying $5 to $10 for additional content and will probably play through the game a few more times on more increased difficulty. There were some networking issues here and there - took a bit to find a game I could connect to (and there's no info out there on what ports to forward, if needed), but once I connected,

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="126" id="2689098"] Best Buy shouldn't sell products with Wal-mart slapped on them. You're not getting the point, still. The problem isn't the product, it's the product branding. [/quote] YOU are not getting the point. Best Buy sells products with Verizon and ATT slapped on them. They even sell contracts for those companies. This is happening right now. In reality. By your logic, should Best Buy only sell unlocked phone? What's the point of Be

[quote who="SpardaSon21" reply="124" id="2689063"]There's a big difference between mentioning the official store in a printed manual (who reads those anyways?), and selling a product that installs the official store on your computer. If a game is on D2D and Steam, and someone has already bought a game that way, what is making them boot up their browser and go to D2D, buy the game, then load up Steam and input the code instead of just opening up Steam and buying the game straight from th

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="120" id="2688526"] Your still stuck on size. Size doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter if it's BK, Wendy's or Al's Burger Shop, none of them should be selling McDonald's burgers for them. Happy, I big a larger one for you since you're so stuck on the issue. None of them should be selling Big Mac EVEN IF they could turn a profit doing it. [/quote] Once again, that's an invalid analogy, since there is no AAA, must have burger. S

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="118" id="2688391"] That's not a proper comparison at all. You're talking about types when I am talking about brands, specifics. D2D sells games, or shirts. They've sold shirts for awhile now. What they didn't do before is sell shirts with Steam written on the front of them. Now they do. edit: and the fact you felt the need to switch the brands around, tells me you are not getting the real concept. The concept here has nothing to do with size at

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="116" id="2688174"] Quoting Aractain, reply 115Do you think that is was significant enough not to make money from steam games? You don't see Wal-mart selling Target, K-mart, and Best Buy brands simply because they could make money do you? It's pimping the competition, and that's a stupid move.[/quote] Let's be a bit more realistic and say Steam is Walmart and D2D is Target. In this case, Walmart essentially has exclusive access to the

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="111" id="2687802"]Neither one of you gets the point so here it is. The point is people who are introduced to D2D first will also be introduced to Steam for the first time. This is not a good thing for D2D. Their move is short-sighted and counter productive to their own service. You cannot forget that the majority of gamers do not use digital services of any kind, still. There are still many, many gamers being introduced to these services for the first time eac

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="108" id="2687782"] The point is not about people being aware or not about steam, it's about lost future revenue to sheer convenience and plain idleness on the average consumer.[/quote] Considering you're the same guy who thought D2D was now an affiliate of Steam, I'm not sure how much longer I should try explaining this simple concept to you: "Oh, D2D doesn't have any good titles, but Steam does. I'll simply shop with Steam exclusively from

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="105" id="2687773"] Quoting DeCypher00, reply 103 Quoting coreimpulse, reply 102 Isn't that precisely taking a very short term profit for big long term losses like having the newly installed Steam client offering the D2D customer 15 sales a day, most of them being better than those from D2D? This isn't some fantasy world where there are people who use D2D and have never heard of Steam. If D2D doe

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="104" id="2687757"] Quoting DeCypher00, reply 103 This isn't some fantasy world where there are people who use D2D and have never heard of Steam. If D2D doesn't offer Steam games, all the more reason not to ever check D2D. There is no "win" situation for them in the long term. They either take short term profits, or no profits at all. You have some stats to back up your claim there buddy? You think that every person who uses D2D, Gamersgate

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="102" id="2687435"] Isn't that precisely taking a very short term profit for big long term losses like having the newly installed Steam client offering the D2D customer 15 sales a day, most of them being better than those from D2D?[/quote] This isn't some fantasy world where there are people who use D2D and have never heard of Steam. If D2D doesn't offer Steam games, all the more reason not to ever check D2D. There is no "win" situation f

[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="71" id="2679561"]That means now D2D is an affiliate of the Steam network. They probably made a google adsense-like affiliate deal, by which D2D sends their visitors to the Steam Store, since I doubt any money they charge for MW2 stays with them MW2 being a Steamworks game, and Valve sends them a little paycheck for their efforts. [/quote] *facepalm* You can't be serious, right?

http://kotaku.com/5583378/civilization-v-develops-snazzy-100-edition Retail collector's edition detailed. Was hoping for a nice collector's edition, but I'm not a fan of miniatures, so I'll probably just preorder online. The book is nice, but not $50 more nice.

I played in the KTTC beta and I keep pulse on the general consensus of reddit. There was a reason it was limited to 5 hours and they tried to prevent reviews for a week. One of my TF2 clanmates bought the game for some reason. He couldn't disagree with anything I said. This game is also the polar opposite of Unreal Tournament in every way. I played UT2k4 a lot. For one, it's a third person shooter. Secondly, there is no twitch gameplay at all. There is no body type dam

Uh, isn't Stardock allowing you to log into Reactor with facebook? The key difference is that Stardock's implementation is optional, but is not different in terms of privacy concerns if you do choose to use facebook. Also, no one is forcing you to post on the Blizzard forums. That's they key point everyone seems to be missing. If you don't want your name out there, don't post on the official forums. No one blinks an eye when you see the "Real Name" badge on Amazon.com reviews; it adds

Don't buy it now. It'll be in the bargain bin in 3 months time. The customization is great, but the gameplay is non-existent. It's a mediocre third person shooter that wants to charge you a monthly/hourly fee to play. You walk around in an 80 person instance doing nothing and then get ushered into tiny 2v2 or 5v5 "missions." And let's put it this way: there's less content in this game than there is in STO.

It's a good game. I just hate the pricing system. You NEED certain cards in order to progress to advance and expert PvE (some of the first few missions can be done with the starter deck on expert, but none beyond those). It goes without saying you need certain cards to be competitive in PvP, too. My biggest regret was spending so much money on this game, just like I did with Magic: The Gathering. Good games, but simply not worth the price you pay when you can play games that are just

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="11" id="2673933"]Valve hired those guys, and they helped make 'Portal', didn't they? As far as I am aware, and I could be quite wrong here, Valve have not hired the people responsible for the creation of that game. I'm not saying they've stolen it out-right, however the concepts are quire similiar. I can't quite recall what it was called... it was available at the same time as 'Dyson' was and featured entirely cell-shaded levels, played from the fi

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="86" id="2672596"] Quoting DeCypher00, reply 85I think this page about sums up the Steam sale for me: http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/jalapenobusiness Its even "worse" for me http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/rebel44/eu[/quote] I acquiesce to your greatness. A lot of the pack deals were really good, but hard to justify when I already owned half of the pack. Was thinking of picking up the CoD pack, too, but I

I think this page about sums up the Steam sale for me: http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/jalapenobusiness