Torchlight on sale
CoinSpin
today (Dec 26), I think just for the day. Just locked in a copy for
myself, to be played later when the holidays madness is over and I have
12 or more consecutive seconds to think! :)
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Ross Ridge
This the Steam Christmas sale is really tempting me to actually give
Steam a try. It's easier to overlook the fact that you really don't
own a copy of the game you paid for when it only costs $2.
The DRM-free download site GOG.com is also having a Christmas sale
with good prices, but I already own a copy of most of the games I'd be
interested in.
btw. waiting to play Torchlight is a probably a good idea. I heard the
Steam download servers are massively overloaded because of the sale.
Ross Ridge
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Peter Huebner
coin^spam^sp...@gmail.com says...
I looked the game up after you mentioned it ... looks like a Wildtangent
followup to 'Fate'?
If you can get it 'drm free' all well and good, I used to have a lot of
activation issues with 'Fate' and after playing _that_ game for a few
days I got utterly sick and tired of it ... I'd rather play Dungeon
Crawl Stone Soup come to that.
Nor did I enjoy Dungeon Runners by the same programmer(s) very much.
Don't have a problem with the anime styling, in fact I rather like it,
but the gameplay is just too repetitive and uninspired i.m.o.
I'll pass on this one, I think.
-P.
CoinSpin
I look at this purchase as a $5 well spent for some occasional casual
diversion. I liked Fate, up to a point, but as you said it got
repetitive and lost my interest. From all of the media shots I've seen
of Torchlight, it appears to fall more somewhere in between Fate and the
original Diablo. It's definitely a dungeon crawl feel to it, but looks
like it could be fun in small doses.
I'm not looking for an epic big budget thriller, just a nice thing to
pass the time. And I honestly don't mind the Steam version at all, it
is WAY better than the WildTangent DRM system they had. I have quite a
few titles that are tied to Steam, so I can uninstall and reinstall on
whatever hardware I feel like playing my games on. Easier for me than
keeping track of physical media (lots of travel and moving lately).
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Cronos
> The DRM-free download site GOG.com is also having a Christmas sale
> with good prices, but I already own a copy of most of the games I'd be
> interested in.
These sites also have holiday sales. I buy games from all of them.
Fester Putzwell
<rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>CoinSpin <coin^spam^sp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Figured I'd give a heads-up... Steam is selling Torchlight for $4.99
>>today (Dec 26), I think just for the day. Just locked in a copy for
>>myself, to be played later when the holidays madness is over and I have
>>12 or more consecutive seconds to think! :)
>
>This the Steam Christmas sale is really tempting me to actually give
>Steam a try. It's easier to overlook the fact that you really don't
>own a copy of the game you paid for when it only costs $2.
Over the last year or so I've been witnessing sort of an epiphany
regarding Steam. Publishers are realizing that they make better
profit with deep game discounts sold through Steam and gamers are
trying games that they otherwise might have never picked up. I was
somewhat of an early adopter of Steam and witnessed all the folks
saying it would never work out as a business initiative (I didn't
really know if it would or even care at the time, but because there
were some Valve games I couldn't play without it, I used it, and
started buying most of my games through Steam about 3 years ago).
Either way I'm now quite thankful I dont have to deal with game boxes,
manuals and physical media for all the games I own. It's just
somewhat entertaining to see how the vast majority of gamers who used
to reject it now embrace it as an integral part of PC gaming, proving
all along they were just suffering from their own creature of habit
syndrome and stubborn reluctance to change... such advanced
technologists.. lol
Cronos
>Publishers are realizing that they make better
> profit with deep game discounts sold through Steam and gamers are
> trying games that they otherwise might have never picked up.
Yea, and I got into a fighting match in the action group saying that
they can make just as much or more by selling more for less. Looks like
they were reading my posts and took my advice. That isn't the first time
I've seen publishers use my ideas. Right now Rise of Flight has 25% off
if you buy 2 planes in a package instead of individually. That was my
idea too and I had to get in a fighting match with people who claimed I
was wrong about that also. There's a reason Activision personally
emailed me once to beta test for them instead of me begging at their
door like most of you do. BTW, I turned them down. Anyway, moral of the
story is; I'm usually right and people who tell me rudely that I am not
need to get over the fact that some people are just smarter than them.
Fester Putzwell
wrote:
I sincerely hope you plan on getting some help soon.
Ross Ridge
>Over the last year or so I've been witnessing sort of an epiphany
>regarding Steam. Publishers are realizing that they make better
>profit with deep game discounts sold through Steam and gamers are
>trying games that they otherwise might have never picked up.
Well, that's certainly true of me. I'd have never bought Braid.
Shouldn't have either, I really suck at platformers. That was a waste
of $3.
>I was somewhat of an early adopter of Steam and witnessed all the folks
>saying it would never work out as a business initiative ...
While I don't think Steam will fail, I'm actually more skeptical about
download services in general. This "everyone downloading everything"
future a lot people are assuming is a near/medium term inevitibility,
doesn't look so certain to me. ISPs might not be willing to provide
all the bandwidth necessary at a price consumers are willing to pay.
For larger games, say DVD sized or bigger, it could end up costing more in
bandwidth charges to download a game than it would to have it shipped in
a box. Even it ends up costing significantly less, any uncertainity about
what the actual cost to download something would discourage customers.
>Either way I'm now quite thankful I dont have to deal with game boxes,
>manuals and physical media for all the games I own.
Meh. If I pirated all my games I wouldn't have to worry about that
either. As it is with Steam, only one of the seven games I bought for
comes with a (online) manual. It's like I paid to pirate these games.
Except if I did pirate them, Valve wouldn't be able to cancel my
"subscription" to these games at any time.
>It's just somewhat entertaining to see how the vast majority of gamers
>who used to reject it now embrace it as an integral part of PC gaming,
>proving all along they were just suffering from their own creature
>of habit syndrome and stubborn reluctance to change... such advanced
>technologists.. lol
Uhuh. Well, I haven't quite embraced it yet. Sure, if Steam or somebody
else has a good game I want for a couple of bucks, I'll think seriously
about downloading it from them. Otherwise, I think I'll stick to buying
games in stores. I like having manuals and disks and the ability to
play old games made by publishers that have long gone out of existence.