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- Thread starter Windu
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Why would they want to use Steam when all of their games are available on Mac?
It wouldn't make much sense to have their own infrastructure just for Mac releases and then use Steam for the Windows versions.
That said, I'd be happy enough if Steam came to Mac too, but Valve seems pretty apathetic towards that idea.
It wouldn't make much sense to have their own infrastructure just for Mac releases and then use Steam for the Windows versions.
That said, I'd be happy enough if Steam came to Mac too, but Valve seems pretty apathetic towards that idea.
BrokenSymmetry
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A Black Falcon said:
Yes, but why isn't there an official no-CD patch for Diablo 2 yet?
permutated
Banned
Can someone PLEASE confirm or disconfirm is these are OSX compatible?
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Does this service actually require you to run them through some sort of Blizzard launcher? I'd assumed it would be just like installing them separately, which would be less a pain than needing some meta-program.Johnkers said:
Wolves Evolve
Member
I've got a service where I keep all my games already. ITS CALLED WINDOWS.
Prime crotch
Banned
Put in the Diablo Battlechest and scream Steam, I love it but it's not the only service out there.
A Black Falcon said:
Even a better reason to put it there. I have many games there and its nice to have integrations. Thats why its special. Still...
Edit just read the registration thing now that is kick ass. One thing Steam needs to correct is CD key registration and digital copy. They have problems with that. They also need to get it so other games can use their service while also getting more games to have servers accessed through Steam.
After reading all this I realized. Where is our open source alternative to Steam. How about an interface like say trillian for messengers but for games. Something that logs into my stardock account, steam account, xfire, blizzard ect ect. Access all the same functions ad have one list of friends and games. Then on top of that have battle.net and server lists for applicable games.
PuppetSlave
Member
magus said:I added all my Blizzard cdkeys
Starcraft Anthology
Warcraft 3
Warcraft 3 Expansion
Diablo 2
Diablo 2 Expansion
Its nice to know I don't have to worry about losing the cds ever again
Wait how does this work?!? If you have your cd key can you download a version from blizzard without buying? I tried to reinstall starcraft a while back and my cd was to old and had errors on it. Been half thinking of picking up a new cd since it's not that expensive to buy now but downloading it since I have the key would be even better.
PuppetSlave
Member
magus said:
Very cool. Thanks
lastendconductor
Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
Wow. Resurrect from your grave, scratched Starcraft!magus said:
Well, I tried clicking on the "re-send email" link in 3 different browsers, in all of them it claims it's sent an email but I've not received any of them. I see other people are having it work for them, what's the trick to it? It can't be that I'm not in the USA, they have country fields for people in other countries.
Action Jackson
Member
Blizzard is awesome, I just registered my Starcraft Special Edition and it got automatically upgraded to the Anthology Version which is now available for download for PC/MAC.
Action Jackson
Member
Danj said:
I had to click the resend button once, because I hadn't received any confirmation mail. But then I got the email instantly, registered from Austria btw. Did you check your Spam folder?
).PuppetSlave
Member
Man, I am not getting my confirmation email either... Tried explorer and mozilla.
Gonna try later.
Gonna try later.
Why would Blizzard even want to put Warcraft III or Diablo II on Steam? Blizzard pays the cost of running multiplayer servers for the hundreds of thousands/millions of people who still play those games daily. Steam would just be getting free money, and they wouldn't let previous blizzard customers transfer their keys over to their service like Blizzard is alllowing.
There are many people, myself included, who don't care if something would benefit a developer or publisher as long as it helps the consumer. It would be nice to have all of my games available through a single program so I'd like it in Steam.kswiston said:
(I'll still enter my CD keys for this service tho)
edit: Does anyone know if the downloadable versions just run from a single executable file or do you need to be running some kind of Steam-like service at the same time? Because if it's only a single file, we can just add them as non-Steam games and we might even be able to use the additional Steam features.
magus said:I added all my Blizzard cdkeys
Starcraft Anthology
Warcraft 3
Warcraft 3 Expansion
Diablo 2
Diablo 2 Expansion
Its nice to know I don't have to worry about losing the cds ever again
Holy awesome
I'd still rather be able to register them on Steam, but I'll accept this
BrokenSymmetry
Member
PuppetSlave said:
I'm not receving a confirmation mail either, even after many tries.
The thing a lot of people don't think about when it comes to decisions like "Why Steam?" is a question like: "Why doesn't Company A just open their own retail store?" and the answer is obviously: "The cost." Now, of course, a digital distribution method is cheaper to maintain, but with all of the servers that will now be required to host the software, not to mention all of the extra employees and infrastructure, it probably costs enough that most companies (even relatively large ones) will look at something like Steam and say: "Hey, we can still make money and let Valve handle the rest." I bet the view it just like a retail store.kswiston said:
Blizzard, however, is fucking rich and has no need to do this. They can "suffer" through the initial cost of getting everything going and I'm sure the upkeep is like pennies to them. EA is in a similar position, I imagine.
Steam happily allows you to register your CD keys if the publisher allows it. Very few do, though.
fallout said:
Not to mention that Blizzard has been doing this for WoW for awhile now. I never even owned a physical copy of WoW when I played for a few months last year. I downloaded the full game as trial, bought a cd-key from Blizzard, and then bought and downloaded the Burning Crusade expansion from Blizzard. They already have the infrastructure to handle downloads like this from their WoW stuff. It's just a matter of expanding on that.
BrokenSymmetry
Member
Ah, finally received a verification mail from Blizzard, after many, many tries!