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#1 Gruber

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Posted February 12 2012 - 08:49 AM

There's some games on Steam F2P, and it makes a lot easier buy in-game credits using Steam Wallet. I was wondering if you guys have plans to do this game "SteamWorks" or release it on Steam.

Any idea?

#2 D20Face

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Posted February 12 2012 - 10:43 AM

I very much support a Steam release.

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Posted February 12 2012 - 11:11 AM

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I very much support a Steam release.

I am almost sure they will only get benefits from it. I am personally waiting a dev answer, but it is nice to see that almost everyone support steam integration.

#4 Naraklok

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Posted February 12 2012 - 02:24 PM

Steam would be ideal. Not too sure if this will happen or not.
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Posted February 12 2012 - 11:57 PM

I also support Steam release.
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#6 Gruber

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Posted February 13 2012 - 12:57 AM

Naraklok said:

Steam would be ideal. Not too sure if this will happen or not.

Why not? That's something I've thinking... the only way to that doesnt work is if steam doesnt agree with it. And I highly doubt this will happen.

#7 Naraklok

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Posted February 13 2012 - 01:00 AM

With the exception of TF2 and Alien Swarm; most F2P titles on Steam are meh at best. The majority being failed MMOs.

Hawken would certainly spice things up a bit.
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#8 Gruber

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Posted February 13 2012 - 02:00 AM

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With the exception of TF2 and Alien Swarm; most F2P titles on Steam are meh at best. The majority being failed MMOs.

Hawken would certainly spice things up a bit.

Well, I play Spiral Knights normally and find it quite fun, but I will agree with you about most of Steam F2P games. Also, I think the "genre" of Alien swarm is freeware since its free and doesnt have any paid items inside.

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Posted February 13 2012 - 02:39 AM

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#10 Naraklok

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Posted February 13 2012 - 03:46 AM

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I think the "genre" of Alien swarm is freeware since its free and doesnt have any paid items inside.
Yeah. Alien Swarm was originally a UT2K4 mod. Valve decided to hire the team during the development process. The game was rebuilt from the ground up and was delivered as freeware on Steam.
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#11 D20Face

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Posted February 13 2012 - 07:06 AM

Naraklok said:

With the exception of TF2 and Alien Swarm; most F2P titles on Steam are meh at best. The majority being failed MMOs.

Hawken would certainly spice things up a bit.
BLC is decent. Dota 2 will be decent with the possibility of good if they embrace mods. SMNC, sadly, is floundering around at the decent level.

You fail to remember that most F2P games are bad, with a couple decent, and almost no good anyway. It's not an issue restricted to Steam.

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Posted February 13 2012 - 07:19 AM

I'd like to have Hawken in Steam.

You've got in there at hand friend lists, private chats and messagery, chat rooms, groups, automatic updates, game files integrity checks, invites, gifts... plus a lot of other goodies.

Servers go down upon a time?. Yes, that's a fact. But I've not been waiting for too long after servers go up again.

Thus Steam definitely is an appealing and more than decent option for this game, IMHO.

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#13 Gruber

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Posted February 13 2012 - 09:17 AM

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I'd like to have Hawken in Steam.

You've got in there at hand friend lists, private chats and messagery, chat rooms, groups, automatic updates, game files integrity checks, invites, gifts... plus a lot of other goodies.

Servers go down upon a time?. Yes, that's a fact. But I've not been waiting for too long after servers go up again.

Thus Steam definitely is an appealing and more than decent option for this game, IMHO.

I personally like VAC system too, works way better than Punkbuster, at least for me.

#14 Naraklok

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Posted February 13 2012 - 05:23 PM

You all make good points.
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#15 Gruber

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Posted February 14 2012 - 10:12 AM

Naraklok said:

You all make good points.

Indeed. I would be very greatfull if they choose to use Steam as main plataform to the game.

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Posted February 14 2012 - 12:34 PM

I think it would be great too. And they host several F2P games in there as well.

You mentioned VAC.. what does this achronym stand for there at your end ?

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#17 Naraklok

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Posted February 14 2012 - 01:06 PM

Valve Anti Cheat.
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#18 The_Silencer

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Posted February 14 2012 - 02:16 PM

I see.

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#19 FlyorDie

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Posted February 14 2012 - 06:53 PM

Naraklok said:

Valve Anti Cheat.
I'm not too familiar with it, how well does it work?

#20 Naraklok

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Posted February 14 2012 - 07:35 PM

It works rather well.
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