As the others have asked. I wonder if steam is going to have sales and massive reductions. I'd love to get an entire show's run for just a few bucks. That would be killer.
Valve May Add Film and TV Series To Steam
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FO3 has active DRM? How? My Steam version hasn't needed GFWL since FO3's most recent update almost a year ago. When I open the game from Steam I suppose you could call it DRM, but it's available in offline as well as just starting up outside of Steam...AzrealMaximillion said:
Since I have full access while offline (with a legal unmodified version,) how exactly does that DRM work?
To be honest, I am rather positive about this.
First of all, I live in Russia, so it is impossible to use Netflix or a lot of other services. Before Steam it was really difficult to get a lot of games here in the area, so a lot of people had to resort to piracy (including myself). With steam you can get games now just by putting some change in to a terminal.
Just the situation with films seems a lot simmilar to what happened in Russia in the 90's with videogames. Perhaps if Gabe will make it as easy to get films and tv shows as he made it easier to get videogames, I would be rather happy.
As he said earlier, piracy is the result of poor service or lack of thereof. Valve makes a lot of money though Russia, so it is possible that they will do their best to bypass geoblocking.
I guess this is better than nothing.
First of all, I live in Russia, so it is impossible to use Netflix or a lot of other services. Before Steam it was really difficult to get a lot of games here in the area, so a lot of people had to resort to piracy (including myself). With steam you can get games now just by putting some change in to a terminal.
Just the situation with films seems a lot simmilar to what happened in Russia in the 90's with videogames. Perhaps if Gabe will make it as easy to get films and tv shows as he made it easier to get videogames, I would be rather happy.
As he said earlier, piracy is the result of poor service or lack of thereof. Valve makes a lot of money though Russia, so it is possible that they will do their best to bypass geoblocking.
I guess this is better than nothing.
I just want Steam to be just about games, not software and now maybe movies. Now the front page will be cluttered with crap I don't care about, I just want to browse games, not movies and software taking up that space.
Make it a separate page if needed if you're gonna do that.
Meh.
Make it a separate page if needed if you're gonna do that.
Meh.
If they handle it the way they handle their documentaries im all for it.
The first one is not even a question because Itunes provide horrible service with horrible quality content (i mean low actual quality, not that i dont like the movie or anything) while houding it all with their useless DRM that breaks and does not let you watch you content.
Amazon instant video is very limited in the area available.
Google play store while available in europe has very few items in store. cant speak about thier download quality as i havent tried that yet.
Also who talked about streaming. Downloads! We want quality content after all!.
going agaisnt who? those website that constantly throw "not avaialble in your country" signs and tell you to fuck off? yeah, there is ZERO competition here. NOONE is providing video streaming legally. Besides why would i want to stream netflix? their video quality is awful. Maybe if we do it the way steam did with its documentaries - downloading good quality video - then ill be buying.Karadalis said:
my download speed in steam is 16 times higher than that. are you sure its not your internet thats limiting?j4c0b1 said:
I find this statement hilariuos considering that Ntflix isnt even available in europe beside a couple countries.Frostnatt said:
No, we did not.Steve the Pocket said:
The first one is not even a question because Itunes provide horrible service with horrible quality content (i mean low actual quality, not that i dont like the movie or anything) while houding it all with their useless DRM that breaks and does not let you watch you content.
Amazon instant video is very limited in the area available.
Google play store while available in europe has very few items in store. cant speak about thier download quality as i havent tried that yet.
Content should be equal on all services, available worldwide. Pirates already do this, if you want to ever beat them you better do this or your just going to bleed money till death. Exclusivity deals should not even be legal.
Steam eaisily uses traffic up to 1700gbps on a normal day [http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/], It does not budge on sales either when traffic increases. They have plenty of badnwith. And so does your ISP.Vrach said:
Also who talked about streaming. Downloads! We want quality content after all!.
Check the Steam Page. Says GFWL is a requirement. You must have gotten rid of GFWL somehow. I know it's possible, but no GFWL is still in Fallout 3.Kyrian007 said:
I think the FO3 page is what Steam didn't change. It was a Steam update that disabled GFWL, I'll try to find it but there was an article here on the Escapist about it prior to the update. And I remember a few days after the article Steam updated FO3 and GFWL is no longer needed. I'll have to try it when I get home, but I'm pretty sure GFWL was removed from pretty much everything on Steam. I'll test it with the first Arkham game when I get home.AzrealMaximillion said:
***Edit, for honesty.
Ok, I got home and tried Arkham and it still needed GFWL. Then I tried FO3 and it wouldn't launch. So as always when something messes up on Steam I verified the cache and was missing over a dozen files. After an update... FO 3 starts up, asks for my GFWL password, and refuses to accept the (what I thought was) valid password.
Wound up having to re-verify my live account and change the password, but managed to without losing saves. So my short lived FO 3 -GFWL was the result of a glitch after an update of my antivirus software. It does indeed still have GFWL, my mistake. This http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...o-Remove-Games-For-Windows-Live-Functionality is the article that made me think Steam had disabled GFWL. Just some odd timing.
I'd also imagine if you were using FOSE you get around the DRM so it can add it's own modding API. You barely remember GWFL is there after launching fallout from FOSE. So that might've been what happened to youKyrian007 said:
OT: OH NOES STEAM HAS MORE CONTENT I'M NOT FORCED TO BUY. All is wrong and GabeN is evil! Burn him at the stake and demand reprehension for his crimes! The time of justice is nigh!
Oh? Valve aren't complete idiots and do what they did with software and add a "Movie" tab probably? Oh,then all is fair and we won't notice.