The Steam specials thread

[ViperGTI]

Is Alice: Madness Returns a good game?

I see its 80% off on the daily deal.

I did a quick search in the "Rate the last game you've played" thread and two users rated it: 8/10 and 9.5/10
Gamespot and IGN rated it 7/10.
I think for that price though, I'm willing to give it a go. (as if I don't have enough games that I bought on special and haven't played yet )

[Grimspoon]

Is Alice: Madness Returns a good game?

I see its 80% off on the daily deal.

Awesome game, I really enjoyed it!

[Wyvern]

Crusader, grab it! Loved the game, was loads of fun to play.

[Pr⊕phet]

Is Alice: Madness Returns a good game?

I see its 80% off on the daily deal.

grabbed 2

[czc]

I forgot about this.

But how's this piece of news. Crysis 2 - maximum edition available on steam again. Whats up with EA?

http://store.steampowered.com/news/8093/

[Strifehart]

I forgot about this.

But how's this piece of news. Crysis 2 - maximum edition available on steam again. Whats up with EA?

http://store.steampowered.com/news/8093/

Crysis 2 was removed from Steam by Valve from what I recall. Due to a contractual issue relating to the distribution of DLC on Steam and other content providers.

“Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service – many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis 2 from Steam."

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/16/cr...n-ea-decision/

and now a follow up to that :

Last June Crysis 2 was suddenly removed from the Steam store. The game was “expelled,” in EA’s words, because a separate agreement with another download service violated new rules from Steam, EA said.

This contract conundrum between Crytek and digital distributors seems to’ve been resolved: Crysis 2 is back on Steam as a $40 re-release. The Maximum Edition bundles existing multiplayer map pack content for the game. This version of the game is also available on Origin today, duh.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/29/cr...ximum-edition/

So the culprit in this drama isn't EA, as everyone would so eagerly like to believe.

[Graal]

No, the culprit is EA. Those rules from Steam have always been there. EA chose to violate them to get their game removed from Steam, so that Valve could be painted the bad guys, not EA. It's not new rules at all.

Steam has always made it a requirement that games bought through the Steam service should also have their content sold through the Steam service. EA violated this by selling the content in-game, thereby bypassing Steam and taking the whole profit for themselves.

[Strifehart]

No, the culprit is EA. Those rules from Steam have always been there. EA chose to violate them to get their game removed from Steam, so that Valve could be painted the bad guys, not EA. It's not new rules at all.

Steam has always made it a requirement that games bought through the Steam service should also have their content sold through the Steam service. EA violated this by selling the content in-game, thereby bypassing Steam and taking the whole profit for themselves.

My point was the removal was a reaction by Valve to an action by EA.

[Graal]

And that's something we've known for almost a year already.

EA is still the culprit.

[Strifehart]

And that's something we've known for almost a year already.

EA is still the culprit.

Alrighty then.