Rumor: Rage to Use Steamworks

[Logan Westbrook]

Rumor: Rage to Use Steamworks

Rage is a game made by id, published by Bethesda, and if rumors are to be believed, protected from pirates by Valve.

DRM is such a divisive issues that no matter what you do, someone is going to be unhappy with you. As DRM goes though, Valve's Steamworks is one of the best around, and it's rumored that id Software's Rage will be joining the Steamworks stable when it's released next year.

The rumors center around the appearance of a page for the game on the Steam store [http://store.steampowered.com/app/9200/]. The page is hardly conclusive evidence by itself, but when combined with the fact that Fallout: New Vegas and Brink - two other Bethesda published games - will also use the system, along with lead designer Matt Hooper's comments that gamers would be pleased by Rage's DRM solution, it certainly suggests that the system is at least a likely contender.

Hooper said that the announcement about the DRM would come when id talked about the game's multiplayer, but didn't reveal exactly when that would be. As part of Steamworks is access to the Steam infrastructure - which would include friends lists and voice chat - combining the two into a single announcement could be considered another sign that Rage will use the system, but until Bethesda decided to unveil it, we won't know for sure.

Rage is scheduled for release for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 13th, 2011.

Source: Shacknews [http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65258]


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[dududf]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Huzzah for not using GFWL? I have to remove it as it's a pain in the ass. Doesn't stop anything, and if I get another failed log in meaning my saves are inaccessible, I will fire bieber out of a catapult into microsoft head quarters

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Well screw you steamworks. I'm getting it on 360.

Yeah I prefer GFWL... oh I went there.

 

[blitz609]

Hunted: The Demon Forge is already availible for presale on Steam and is another Bethesda published game so I wouldn't be suprised.

 

[ultimateownage]

Please let this be true. Steam is so damn convenient.

 

[Darktau]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Huzzah for not using GFWL? I have to remove it as it's a pain in the ass. Doesn't stop anything, and if I get another failed log in meaning my saves are inaccessible, I will fire bieber out of a catapult into microsoft head quarters

As far as I know, steam as DRM, isn't that good. But it's just the constant deals and respect from the community that drives the low piracy rates. (I have bought SOOOOO much off steam). But I think steam really isn't that hard to pirate.

 

[dududf]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Huzzah for not using GFWL? I have to remove it as it's a pain in the ass. Doesn't stop anything, and if I get another failed log in meaning my saves are inaccessible, I will fire bieber out of a catapult into microsoft head quarters

As far as I know, steam as DRM, isn't that good. But it's just the constant deals and respect from the community that drives the low piracy rates. (I have bought SOOOOO much off steam). But I think steam really isn't that hard to pirate.

Oh as a DRM it isn't that particularly effective, but it's the least damn annoying imo.

That being said, it started off as shit, and I won't deny that. It got better however.

 

[Darktau]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Huzzah for not using GFWL? I have to remove it as it's a pain in the ass. Doesn't stop anything, and if I get another failed log in meaning my saves are inaccessible, I will fire bieber out of a catapult into microsoft head quarters

As far as I know, steam as DRM, isn't that good. But it's just the constant deals and respect from the community that drives the low piracy rates. (I have bought SOOOOO much off steam). But I think steam really isn't that hard to pirate.

Oh as a DRM it isn't that particularly effective, but it's the least damn annoying imo.

That being said, it started off as shit, and I won't deny that. It got better however.

Hah, steam as a service is the laggiest thing I have EVER used, but I love it . The old UI used to freeze on me constantly, new UI just freezes every now and again when I launch it . But as long as there are £6 sales, I will stay

 

[jamesworkshop]

nobody cares about the existance of drm unless it actually stops you from playing the game

 

[dududf]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Huzzah for not using GFWL? I have to remove it as it's a pain in the ass. Doesn't stop anything, and if I get another failed log in meaning my saves are inaccessible, I will fire bieber out of a catapult into microsoft head quarters

As far as I know, steam as DRM, isn't that good. But it's just the constant deals and respect from the community that drives the low piracy rates. (I have bought SOOOOO much off steam). But I think steam really isn't that hard to pirate.

Oh as a DRM it isn't that particularly effective, but it's the least damn annoying imo.

That being said, it started off as shit, and I won't deny that. It got better however.

Hah, steam as a service is the laggiest thing I have EVER used, but I love it . The old UI used to freeze on me constantly, new UI just freezes every now and again when I launch it . But as long as there are £6 sales, I will stay

Freezes on you? Bummer man. My connection both sucks, and is unreliable and it's only frozen for a couple seconds maybe once in the last 3 weeks. And I'm on it all the time. Like right now I'm on it. 4 hours ago? I was on it. It's not perfect, but it at least has perks to try to say sorry to it's problems. We've seen it from news, get improperly banned? Sorry have 2 copies of tf2, and we'll unban you. Liked portal? Get it free.

Best of the worst imo. It isn't perfect, but at least it's trying to not piss off the customers.

 

[Irridium]

Once again, even though I love Steam, I still say this sucks. People should never be forced to use a platform they have no interest in. Despite most on this site loving Steam, there are shitloads more who want nothing to do with it and see it as just another program that takes up space. And when all you want to do is play on your own, and want nothing Steam offers, its not hard to see why its bad for them.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

if I dont upgrade my video card before Portal 2 comes out I'm going to have to do it before Rage does. On the plus side if it is on Steam chances are at some point they might eventually have it available for one of their epicly awesome sales.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Preety much this. DRM in general is a hassle and an annoyance for the user. But among the various options, Steam does qualify as a lesser evil.

That said, I am still not going to buy games off of the thing. At least with a retail version, I can be certain I will still have them when the apocalypse comes and Valve ceases to exist.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Awesome. I love Steam...

 

[Alex Cowan]

I think it's a fact of life that every game will get cracked, so if you're going to go for DRM anyway it might as well be one that has fringe benefits, hence Steam. Good call, Bethesda.

 

[dududf]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Preety much this. DRM in general is a hassle and an annoyance for the user. But among the various options, Steam does qualify as a lesser evil.

That said, I am still not going to buy games off of the thing. At least with a retail version, I can be certain I will still have them when the apocalypse comes and Valve ceases to exist.

Just want to point out that I'm pretty sure that there's some policy or something, where if steam goes under they'll host the servers for 2 months, and provide owners of the game essentially the crack for it.

But from then on, you best have backed up the local content.

 

[Buccura]

I'd take Steamworks over any other DRM any day of the week.

 

[F-I-D-O]

Well Steam is the best of the worst for me, so I say if you want to use a reasonably tough DRM use steam. It seems to fuck you over the least in my experience.

Huzzah for not using GFWL? I have to remove it as it's a pain in the ass. Doesn't stop anything, and if I get another failed log in meaning my saves are inaccessible, I will fire bieber out of a catapult into microsoft head quarters

Just launch Bieber into a bed of spikes. You can fire some of the PS3 fanboys in the Microsoft Headquarters. Look at some of the PSblog comments to find them. JUST GET RID OF THEM!
Yay for the good bad stuff? Looks like Bethsedea (sp) has decided to come over to the cool kids /flamesheild
/sarcasm

 

[Avayu]

nobody cares about the existance of drm unless it actually stops you from playing the game

I disagree. Yeah the real shitstorms only ensue when the DRM is as fucked up as Ubisoft's, but in my experience, Steam is the only DRM most gamers will accept without complaining.