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Well, looks like I definitely won't be buying this on PC, then.
That's too bad considering this game controls like complete ass on the 360 pad.
I should have bought it on PSN.
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.
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 :(
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.
Do want to try this and @ $10...done
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.
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.
Time for anyone who doesn't have a 360 to get one.
Put this game on nintendo wii disc.
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.
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.
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.
What the fuck I wanted this.f
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.
I would never ever ever ever EVER buy anything from D2D. Dunno what the other thing is, might look at that.
...What's wrong with D2D? I haven't had any problems with it.
Steam's awesome. I won't be buying this unless it's released on Steam. It's Capcom's loss, really.
d2d have drm. nuff said.
-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
@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.
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.
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.
...for now at least
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