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HirmuinenCT Certified Sales Rep. Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:54 am Post subject: digital distribution services |
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I know a lot of here uses Steam and all, but what other services are you using?
I have been using Gamersgate lately and they have improved the thing quite a lot. Theres now 50% discounts everyday and currently theres two 50% offs(Stalker clear sky and World if Conflict complete) and one 60%(Men of war). Yesterday there was Mount and Blade 50% off, too. I bought Civ4 from there this other day and Hearts of Iron complete both 50% off.
You can download them as many times as possible and the best part is that you don't need to use any proqram to play the games. _________________
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RK-MaraUber Dick Wad Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 4:27 am Post subject: |
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I've used GOG on a few occasions but other than that, I stick to Steam. I prefer it when I have everything neatly in one client. _________________
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theboomboomElite Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Location: Denver
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:58 am Post subject: |
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I've used both the EA and the IGN client, and what I've found is in a matter of months the games that were available exclusively with those two services showed up on steam, so I'm stickin with steam from here on out. Makes everything simpler. _________________ You do not say that the wheel is fatigued, yet the body is as material as the wheel
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HirmuinenCT Certified Sales Rep. Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:18 am Post subject: |
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There are some nice deals at Direct 2 Drive:
http://www.direct2drive.com/d2dturns5
Games like CoH gold(both CoH's package), Bioshock, World in conflict complete and Hearts of Iron2 complete. All for 5$ each
Mirrors Edge and Red Alert 3 5£/5€ for Europeans.
Direct 2 Drive is slow though. Downloading Mirrors Edge and it won't just download faster than 300-350kb/s, which is not even half what I could do. _________________
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anonymousityStealth's Wench Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Location: Scurvy Cove
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:06 am Post subject: |
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I had some bad experience with the EA downloads manager, twice has it disallowed me to play a title I purchased due to some registration error in their system. Since I've used Steam for basically everything, and D2D for some games that Steam doesn't have.
Check out this article on what some Gearbox developers have been saying about Steam/Valve.
http://kotaku.com/5376708/gearbox-prez-lets-off-some-steam-about-valve _________________
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HirmuinenCT Certified Sales Rep. Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:08 am Post subject: |
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Yeah kinda screwed situation there. Valve being the competitor and starting to get big games rights to distribute(Fear2, DoW2, Empire TW...). Monopoly status, which is never really a good option if you are looking for best products. You can see this with Steam and how Valve runs it, they don't have dedicated people running the program and no Europe/other office where they would have people working on it. So if theres a problem with Steam it will only be worked really late other than NA area or during weekend you would have to wait till late monday.
Partly why I have started to look and try other services and so far Gamersgate is the only one I would use besides Steam(and my games woudn't be tied to single platform that could be stolen/closed). Steam is bad, but still miles better than any competitor when it comes to download speed and usability.
Right now the D2D downloader goes on 100kb/s. _________________
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Messy RecipeEl Gran CapitánJoined: 13 Mar 2005 Location: Inter Veritates
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Vlad PiranhaDictator-Elect Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Sector C Test Labs.
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've heard that Blizzard has some sort of system where you can register your games and download the full versions of them at any time, sort of like Steam.
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RK-MaraUber Dick Wad Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Vlad Piranha wrote: | I've heard that Blizzard has some sort of system where you can register your games and download the full versions of them at any time, sort of like Steam. |
Yeah, you just have to register your games on Battle.net and after that they are free for you to download. _________________
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HirmuinenCT Certified Sales Rep. Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:09 am Post subject: |
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East India Company for 5$. Lasts for this week.
I'm tempted to get this one, but there are very mixed reviews of it. Then again this is a pc game that is being patched and updated, so the small problems might not be there anymore...
Review after patches.
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Mikrobitti, magazine: 5/5
"Empire: Total War rewrote naval strategy gaming, but East India Company leaves ETW way behind. If you liked ETW, you're going to love EIC, which is first strategy game since Civilization IV to have more or less all the pieces come together."
"Functional economy, spectacular naval battles and excellent AI make East India Company a game that future naval-RTS games are going to be compared to. Must buy for a friend of quality games." |
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Erwin RommelElite Joined: 02 Aug 2005
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Dude, it's 5 bucks. I've wasted 5 on far worse things. _________________ -=|CT|=-Descartes
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RK-MaraUber Dick Wad Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure how trustworthy Mikrobitti is when it comes to game reviews. Tapio Berschewsky is a good editor but the new editor-in-chief doesn't give a damn about games. Kind of makes sense with Pelit (Games) magazine belonging to the same company. And according to Pelit, Nitro Games is working hard on patching up the game and the best of all, they are listening to the customers.
Anyhow, like Erwin said, it's just $5. I spend as much on a single beer in downtown clubs. _________________
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Erwin RommelElite Joined: 02 Aug 2005
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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I bought it and tried it out in-between being busy with everything else imaginable.
It seems drier than the TW games. It has a much larger focus on the economic end of things.
The beginning, at least, is a bit boring. You have a single fleet of ships and sail back and forth with goods, (hopefully) making a profit. Eventually you get to unlock bigger ships and so on. I didn't get too far past the first part, so I can't really comment on it. I don't know if I'd pay retail for it, but it's worth $5 for sure.
The naval combat doesn't seem quite as intuitive as ETW, but it's not bad. _________________ -=|CT|=-Descartes
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HirmuinenCT Certified Sales Rep. Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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HirmuinenCT Certified Sales Rep. Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Finland
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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Team Fortress 2 for 2,49$ at Steam it will end in couple of hours.
Aaaaand it's over :> _________________
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