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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5:41 PM on 08.14.2008
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I should have bought it on PSN.
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.
I could care less, PC gaming is shit anyway, I got my 360 version and it controls just fine.
And anyone deciding not to get it: you fail at life. The game is SOOO worth it.
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
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.
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.
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.