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Bionic Commando: Rearmed won't be heading to Steam photo

Despite beliefs to the contrary, it has been announced that Capcom's Bionic Commando: Rearmed will not be distributed to PC gamers via Steam. It was pretty much a given that Valve's service would carry the action game remake, but some late complications have seen the deal go sour.

"At the last minute, we've been unable to reach mutually agreeable terms with Valve on BCR, so they won't be carrying it," explained Capcom's corporate officer Christian Svensson. "I won't get into the details but we do continue to have a good relationship with Valve and future Capcom titles we expect to be carried on Steam."

No details on whatever disagreements were had, but PC users can still pick Rearmed up from Direct2Drive or GamersGate for $14.99. Now everybody sit back and think what life would be like if we'd written "Bionic Commando runs out of Steam" for a headline.


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Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 17:43
Sharpless
Well, looks like I definitely won't be buying this on PC, then.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 17:47
vexed alex
That's too bad considering this game controls like complete ass on the 360 pad.

I should have bought it on PSN.
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 17:50
pendelton21
Sad Face.

First, no RFGO (AND no Chad Sings The Hits Of Motown) and now this! It's been a bad day, please don't take a picture.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 17:51
-PL-
Just bought it on PSN... Definitely worth the $10 with the challenge rooms and the multiplayer (not online unfortunately). I didn't even like the original that much, but this is incredibly polished and feels like a full retail release game to me. I have to go to work though so I can't play it until after midnight :(
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 18:02
Gameboi
I haven't played it much, but it certainly looks and feels to be worth my $10 thus far. Not that I ever had any doubts to begin with.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 18:06
mix
Do want to try this and @ $10...done
Jack8274's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 18:28
Jack8274
Wow, they really fucked themselves. Steam is one of the only reputable and easy to use system that implements security and a wicked simple paying system. You just need a credit card. Takes less than 1 minute to buy a game while direct to drive sucks so much balls. Look at Audiosurf as a example of making games more buy-able by having a simple way to obtain it without piracy.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 18:35
-PL-
People are going to pirate the game whether or not it's on Steam. They'll get some money out of it, but I guarantee the XBLA and PSN releases are what's going to bring in the real cash.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 19:28
Holyetheline
Time for anyone who doesn't have a 360 to get one.
mr spooky's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 19:31
mr spooky
Put this game on nintendo wii disc.
ZagZagovich's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 20:05
ZagZagovich
What's up with people saying that they won't buy it on PC if it's not on steam? Is it that hard to get it through Direct2Drive or Gamesgate? I've never used them so I have no idea.
Jack8274's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 20:28
Jack8274
Steam is actully the best thing to ever happen to PC gaming. I haven't bought a game in a store in since No More Heroes.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 20:32
Kyousuke Nanbu
Its cause Steam is the end all to be all of download services, every PC gamer bows at the altar of steam.

I could care less, PC gaming is shit anyway, I got my 360 version and it controls just fine.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 20:36
-PL-
I've used Direct2Drive and it's fairly simple to use. Everything's pretty much done through a web-based interface and you have to get a little downloader program to download the games. I think people are just concerned about having to keep track of multiple digital distro services, but it's really not a huge deal.
angusm's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 20:45
angusm
What the fuck I wanted this.f
realyst's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 20:50
realyst
I got it from D2D and it was fine. Hell, when my FF3 refused to install whatever funky lil' activeX thing they wanted to install, they just gave me a direct link to the exe file and the site gave me the reg key. Pretty harmless.

And anyone deciding not to get it: you fail at life. The game is SOOO worth it.
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 21:23
Wedge
I would never ever ever ever EVER buy anything from D2D. Dunno what the other thing is, might look at that.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 21:30
-PL-
...What's wrong with D2D? I haven't had any problems with it.
kevinski's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 23:50
kevinski
Steam's awesome. I won't be buying this unless it's released on Steam. It's Capcom's loss, really.
Mabec's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/15/2008 01:45
Mabec
d2d have drm. nuff said.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/15/2008 03:39
Timmeh
-PL- I think as you mentioned people don't like unnecessarily complicating things with multiple DD solutions, I used EA's horrible thing once and that put me off using anything other than Steam for a long time. I don't think I'm alone there, or in being able to say that had Steam not been installed I would have gone to the Pirate Bay instead for something that was an impulse buy so they are definitely going to lose sales.

I never really looked at Direct2Drive, is their support and patching of games as good as with Steam? I thought I'd read in places that patching for some games was sometimes behind retail, stuff like that.

Even more interestingly games like Bioshock and CoD4 are significantly cheaper on there! Didn't realise that EA distributed through them either. Think I'll be bookmarking D2D for future reference :P
realyst's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/15/2008 04:44
realyst
@Mabec:

SOME games use invasive DRM(like Starforce) but the same an be said of Steam(BioShock anyone?)

I can attest that this game did NOT install Starforce on my computer. The game didn't require much more activation then your typical, "insert RegKey here, get activation code by calling or connecting online, insert activation code here".

It was a harmless install.
musicforus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/15/2008 08:35
musicforus
Boo. I was waiting for this to hit Steam. Forget it now, I won't touch the other download stores. Steam is the greatest.

I'm sure it had to do with price. Valve doesn't like taking a lot of BS from publishers, and the $10 price on XBOX Live vs. the $15 price on PC probably was the catch. If it was, then good for Steam for not giving in. That price difference is nonsense.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 08/15/2008 14:38
-PL-
Timmeh:

D2D doesn't automatically patch games like Steam does, but Steam also only patches Valve games. I made the mistake of assuming Steam DID patch all of the games included in the service, and realized when I got to Quakecon that all of my non-valve games acquired through Steam were way behind in version.

D2D isn't an application that runs in the background like Steam either, it's just a website where you go to buy/download games, and then you install a little downloader that manages the download. Downloader closes when download is finished.

DRM is in a bunch of Steam games too. I haven't had any problems with it, I bought FFXI and the latest expansion over D2D a few months ago, and downloaded/installed it on both my laptop and my desktop computers. Didn't have any problems with download or licensing issues. I think the whole DRM scare is blown way out of proportion anyway.
Knives's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/16/2008 23:53
Knives
...for now at least
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