Unreal Tournament III Free This Weekend On Steam
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I blame Valve for thinking 1?=1$. We Europeans that use Euro are still and will remain angry cause of this. We saw our game(any game from any company) prices in Steam rocket from 35 euros to 49.99 euros, and that my friend is Valve's fault.cherimoya said:
valve does not set prices on any games sold on steam except for VALVE games.
if it's made by EA, EA told valve what it's price should be on steam - for every market that EA is allowing steam to sell the game in.
its that simple.
valve does not price non-valve games on steam.
// i'm more wrong than i was last post.
if it's made by EA, EA told valve what it's price should be on steam - for every market that EA is allowing steam to sell the game in.
its that simple.
valve does not price non-valve games on steam.
// i'm more wrong than i was last post.
Bzzt, wrong. THEY set the prices. Just like every shop sets it's own price, as long as it's the same or more than what the producers want for their game.cherimoya said:
Also - if every non-Valve developer wanted to get the 1 USD = 1 EUR, he would also do that in the official shop. And it's impossible that every single game costs more in Europe because the developer wants so. That's counter-productive.
Btw - Free weekend my ass. Download crashed again at 35%, then Steam crashed. Same for almost everyone trying to buy/try out the game.
Unreal 3 has vanished. It looks like Steam was taken by suprise by the customer load for the special, hopefully for them they're fixing it.
Has anyone here actually managed to dload and play it yet and if so does the new update make it worth the money? Is anyone actually playing ut3 (will it be a bot only affair) or is everyone/more people still playing ut2004?
World of Goo is on discount too (http://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/) but I don't think I got cash for both right now after having to replace my blown-up graphics card. There're obviously different games but one is more highly praised then the other right. And I suppose ut3 would be one of the best games to test a shiny new nvidia 9 series physx graphics card. Oh decisions, decisions...
World of Goo is on discount too (http://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/) but I don't think I got cash for both right now after having to replace my blown-up graphics card. There're obviously different games but one is more highly praised then the other right. And I suppose ut3 would be one of the best games to test a shiny new nvidia 9 series physx graphics card. Oh decisions, decisions...
The free UT3 weekend was a complete and utter failure, based on the Steam Forums and my own personal experience. When I first started the download on Friday, the Steam servers could not handle the download demand and not one MB could be downloaded. Checked back in on Saturday, and about 9% was downloaded on my high-speed internet connection. Now it's Sunday afternoon, and though the weekend is not over, the free UT3 trial apparently is over. Never even had a chance to try the trial. If that's not incredibly bad PR for digital download events, I don't know what is. All I know is, I have a bad taste in my mouth when I even think of UT3.
I have to agree, I got absolutely no where with the dload. What disturbs me most is that valve doesn't seem to read / participate in their community forums, which I'd expect from EA or some corporate retail publisher maybe but oh well, disappointing to say the least.Zerbye said:
Tried to download the expansion from fileplanet since i already have UT3, however fileplanet charges subscriptions. Bastards-.- I shall have to hunt down another source.