Ubisoft on Steam! woot!

So yea, it isn't an April's fool, they really are on steam now.

They have Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Far Cry up, and....**drum roll**\


Assassin's Creed is up too, it makes that purchase so much easier


http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?publisher=ubisoft&cc=US

 

Farcry 2 + Steam = /goodyear

 

Indeed good sir

 

I need to put steam back on my comp then

 

Oh dude Steam is so good.

No, I didn't really mean to rhyme. But hay .

 

Yep, that is good to see.... I've been very pleased with Steam here lately, and love the fact that the games follow me where i go.... SWEET!

 

FINALLY!

Now Ubisoft, listen here:

PUT BEYOND GOOD & EVIL ON STEAM YOU EVIL BAST****!!

Once that is done, world conquest!

 

The only thing that steam is a stickler with is accounts. My wife bought me a game and set it up on my machine. But she didn't know I already have a steam account. So now I have two accounts with different games on each and steam refuses to merge them. But I was still proud of her---shhh don't tell her this she still doesnt know.

 

I expect sometime in the future they will provide some sort of ability to combine accounts. They already have it so that if you have more than one license for a game you can "gift" it to another user, it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to transfer the original license to another user.

I think it might have to do with legal issues and possible explotation, but who knows.

What games do you have on the account you want to get rid of/merge?

 

"dude" and "good" do not rhyme...

 

Half Life 2 game of the year edition, then orange box both on different accounts. Soon left 4 dead.
I have been told it is easier to go buy the game again and put it on the right account.

 

I don't see a price for Far Cry, doesn't matter though I already own 2 copies, both purchased for < $10. And WTF... Splinter Cell for $18! Didn't that game release in like 2003. Ya it was good and all but $18 for a 5 year old game, pffft. And Assasin's Creed pre-order is full retail, no? So why pre-order a download? Don't get me wrong I like Steam but this is all rather lack luster to me :\

 

You sound like stewie from family guy.

 

What the DEUCE are you talking about? And stop looking at ME!

 

LOL, man I never get tired of that show.

I found far cry on steam.

 

Oh snap!

:-o

 

wow i now quite firmly believe that steam is the future of purchasing games

 

Yeah, speaking from experience it is actually easier to just buy the overlapping game and forget about the old account. I had to do it with Half-Life 1: Platinum and such.

If it were more than 1 game I'd suggest waiting for some sort of merge service, but otherwise it might be just as effective to repurchase someday on the account you want and then inform everyone that the old one is closed.

 

Steam is finally getting better!

 

Because of 2 old Ubisoft games and a zero deal pre-order? I think it's pretty much the same as it was yesterday.

 

I'd say better because it has finally gained enough clout to be looked at by bigger publishers for distribution. Ubisoft is a HUGE publisher and even this small entry is a good sign for Valve. Ubisoft is the one who decided which games to release, I expect if they do very well in Steam sales then they will continue adding games from their library.

Next in line is EA and after that, Microsoft. I have a hard time believing those guys will swallow their pride and put their games on Steam.

 

True enough it's a step in the right direction but it'd be nice if it actually offered some value now. Maybe there's a bundle around the corner or a pre-order deal in the works but the launch is just ho-hum.

 

well obviously theres so bundles or deals just yet. i mean they were just added on to steam today

 

I doubt EA is going to join in, they are trying to market their own such system aren't they? (with just EA games of course).

 

One question about steam.. If I want to play a game like GTA, that isnt Multiplayer, do I still have to log in? What if I dont have access to the internet? (via location/laptop)

 

i think that you can set it up in your steam account to be offline, STEAM will still run but you wont have to be connected to the internet to play the games, which is good my internet sucks, stupid sky i get 14.Kbps downlaod speed and im NOT joking

 

I've played Lost Coast offline here at work on my m1530. I think you need to setup steam online first, but then you're good to go.

 

Did anyone have the displeasure of using steam when it first came out? Oh man, it used to be awful. I rather like it now-a-days though. When I finally got back on Steam I had lost the games I previously had which sucked. I never bothered to rebuy them because theres source versions of DoD and CS now. Lame that I cant play a game I already bought though. Especially since I still have the discs and serial numbers.

I hate EA. Any content distribution system they release is going to be awful. I hope that thier CEO gets Diabetes.
Long live Westwood.

 

No but from when I remember the first day cs 1.5 went to cs 1.6 steam had a lot of glitches including making free accounts for the games.

It also was a lot different game play from 1.5 to 1.6 cs but still, you are right, steam had a lot of problems.

 

I remember the day HL2 came out and we were all forced to install the abomination that was Steam. It took literally DAYS to decode the game files. Plus, it wasn't anywhere near as fully featured as it is now. Ohh boy did we come a long way.

I had an issue that I already owned the HL1 plat pack, but I actually lost the disks. I tried to register the codes, but it didn't work on Steam so I gave up. Months later I saw the platinum pack again going for like 10 bucks so I bought it. A few months later (after playing the games) when Steam didn't suck so much I wondered if maybe the newer plat pack would register on Steam and luckily it DID! Yay!

But yeah, Steam started out with quite a few of us gamers resisting it. It took awhile, but its time to shine is now.

Now if we could just work our way there with certain OTHER pieces of software...*cough* Vista *cough*.

 

Yea, I remember lol, back in the day when Counter Strike was free

 

Steam is going to become silly outdated if Games will start getting bigger and bigger.
Imagine downloading a 25GB game on a modem connection or on the first days of the release. Sometimes the real copy is the best choice.Steam is better only after the game is released and the hype is down.

 

I don't think games will be filling blue-ray disks very soon. Right now art assets (what takes up the majority of the GB for a game) make up 80% of a game budget. At this rate, it will cost over 100 million dollars to keep making AAA titles. At some point things MUST slow down because companies cannot continue to survive staking that much money into a game that isn't WOW.

Procedural generation or stylized art design is the future. TF2 and Darwinia and Blizzard.

The 25GB titles will stick with PS3 for awhile. Some day they will appear on PC, but by then hopefully internet bandwidth will have opened up a little bit and we will get 5MB down a second.

 

Bandwidth may get worse before it gets better... but it will definitely get better. You'll be downloading HD movies in <2 minutes. I don't see a need to buy a brand new game from Steam unless there is a crazy discount or no store near you. I do like it for older titles, indie games, bundles and the odd "sale". But usually I can find what I want in store for same or less and I can sell it or even give it away later if I want to. As opposed to keeping my Steam games forever because I cannot sell them or give them away despite the fact that they are MY property to do with as I please (not)