Nabs
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That's why I think this is legit. If they wanted to troll us, they'd hit us off with some Mass Effect or BF3.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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That's why I think this is legit. If they wanted to troll us, they'd hit us off with some Mass Effect or BF3.
Q
Queen of Hunting
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yeah the halo 3 community page adds some truth to this for now but i still have doubt
My immediate thought when I saw this was that they had had it with having things leak with their Registry system and have decided to screw it up so that people understand that it is not a viable source of information anymore.
I would love it to be true, but am not holding high hopes for it.
I would love it to be true, but am not holding high hopes for it.
Right after Metal Gear Revengeance.
Madrugador
Member
Halo on Steam? I'll believe it when I see it.
Can't wait for FEZ.
Can't wait for FEZ.
Glass Rebel
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I'm sorry but isn't this hilarious?
Microsoft studios published both Mark of the Ninja and Deadlight on Steam and use Steamworks for the DRM. It seems like even Microsoft is abandoning Games for Windows Live for Steamworks.
That... may actually happen. LoS 2 is coming, possibly LoS1, and Konami have said they'll consider a Revengeance PC port, once the console versions are out. I wouldn't lose hope just yet.
Regarding all this registry stuff, I'll get excited when someone finds Gears and Forza. Maybe Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, too (olololo).
Glass Rebel
Member
Oh and for the record, Tin Tin doesn't work with that uPlay exploit. It asks you for a key after you launch the application.
Refreshment.01
Member
If things keep up you'll also play lots of Pokemon on your Cell phone.
I wonder if that's what the patch was for?
Of course, this is PC gaf. It's quite possible nobody ever launched it to realize this.
Glass Rebel
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I think Tin Tin worked this way from the beginning. It uses SolidShield.
Stump's review actually made me really curious though. Hope I can get it for cheap one day.
toddhunter
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Valve with that Michael Scott technology
chixdiggit
Member
Haha indeed.
Tizoc
Member
I would LOVE for those 2 games to get a release on Steam :-/
Zero-Crescent
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Along with King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match and King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match. Looks like SNK's adding these, along with some NeoGeo titles, since some like Ikari Warriors are also listed.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
oh hey guys what's going on in here...
I'm sorry but isn't this hilarious?
This post, so good. 10/10.
How on god's green earth is Halo 3 going to be on steam?
Halo 3 is like, what, 5 years old?
Do they even have the source code? Is 343i going to port it? With all the back end plumbing on that game it seems like a super huge task to do for very little possible gain.
edit: the only reason I could see this happening is some panic-mode Windows 8 hail mary. But then I would think they'd want it in their own walled garden and not Valve's.
Halo 3 is like, what, 5 years old?
Do they even have the source code? Is 343i going to port it? With all the back end plumbing on that game it seems like a super huge task to do for very little possible gain.
edit: the only reason I could see this happening is some panic-mode Windows 8 hail mary. But then I would think they'd want it in their own walled garden and not Valve's.
Their walled garden isn't really built for large games like Halo.
1. Microsoft has pretty much ditched GFWL
2. Most publishers are shying away from GFWLaltogether (Capcom, Codemasters, Rockstar...etc*)
3. Microsoft has already posted games on Steam before.
4. Some of the recent indie games that were Xbox Live exclusives are now on Steam.
5. apparently Windows 8 store cannot support these games as they do not meet the requirements.
MrNyarlathotep
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Their walled garden isn't really built for games period, outside of 2D physics based puzzlers a la angry birds.
That doesn't mean they can't make it Windows 8 only by other means though.
I get all that, but ... Halo 3? They'd have to go digging through source control to get a workable version and then spend a lot of money to port it to pc. It is 5 years old and it would be kind of weird from a PR standpoint when they are trying to prove that 343i can carry the torch.
It is just odd. I believe everything else on that list that I noticed.
MrNyarlathotep
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Windows and PCs are for Office and time wasters like facebook, angry birds, minesweeper and solitaire.
Xbox is for games.
Why would people want to play games at their desks where they do their work when they can have comfy couch, less angular graphics, more cinematic framerates, etc?
A title like Halo will easily re-cooperate its costs within a few hours, stump mentioned that Alan Wake made up it's development cost for PC in less than 48 hours, Halo should take a lot less time.
It's the end of the product cycle there is no real harm to 343i if they decide to port their old games to PC.
chixdiggit
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I commend your effort. I know I'm far too lazy to mess with it right now myself.
Cinematic frame rates are 24hz, except for the Hobbit. Just sayin'.
Still seems such an odd choice to me. *shrug* It has to be windows 8 only, somehow.
BoosterDuck
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I wish Namco would've released Pac-Man DX on Steam before being handed a nice wad of Microsoft cash to put it on Windows 8
TouchMyBox
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Isn't it both?
It feels like Microsoft gave up on the platform once they noticed that they couldn't charge for GFWL.
They've been sticking their head out periodically with minimal effort in order to assess whether they should care or not.
Nabs
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I saw something called PAC-MAN in the registry today. I was going to post about it until I saw a second one called PAC-MAN Pizza Parlor.
I threw up for a bit and forgot about it.
Where are we getting this Steam registry news from?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
the steam registry
No fucking way. I was just about to relent and buy it on PSN.
I never knew people could look at that.
Halo official Steam group? http://steamcommunity.com/games/216800
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I have a feeling with as loosely as people have been talking about it and posting links to sites that display that info, we won't be looking at the registry for much longer.
I agree. Why should we be able to look at the registry anyways?
People have been doing that since forever. It was hardly a secret we were keeping from Valve or anything.
That's why everything is called ValveTestAppXXXXX instead of the real names, it's just that the community pages created a new loophole that they'll close again.
WHAT IS HAPPENING
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Well, I mean, that's kind of what I'm talking about.
Things keep getting easier and Valve will start plugging holes until we can't look at it at all anymore.
Remember when you had to install some skeezy Russian software to view registry entries?
You mean THE ClientRegistry.blob? The one whose deletion is the solution to every Steam-related problem? I had no idea that Valve stored all the catalog locally on every PC, that's totally weird to me.
toddhunter
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