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Left 4 Dead Steam Pre-Purchase Has Begun
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DenogginizerOS
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I am a little concerned about my processor (P4 3.4GHZ) but I have an 8600 GT and 2GB of RAM. I hope the demo is available soon so I can test it out.
MaritalWheat
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Ah, thank you for reminding me, dled last night but totally forgot about it.eznark said:
I know, but they referred to that as a 'beta.' They've been calling this a demo and they promised it for 360 too as someone else mentioned so hopefully no Steam pre-order is required.Companion Cube said:
Rur0ni said:And here I was thinking it would be a $39 game... rubs me wrong. So it's a $49 game, like every full fledged pc game. They know they can get away with charging that.
Of course I'm buying it anyway. Fuck you Valve. :\
....I don't get your problem? You act like it's an expansion.
After spoiling us with the insane value of Orange Box, paying a normal price for a fairly normal amount of content is slightly offputting. However, this game does support matchmaking, and they said free DLC maps will be coming down the pipeline, so it'll probably work out to be more-than-average quantity of content.
That said, I might wait until Boxing Week to buy this, since it'll likely be on sale for $40 then, and there is too much coming out in the near future I'd like to play before this.
That said, I might wait until Boxing Week to buy this, since it'll likely be on sale for $40 then, and there is too much coming out in the near future I'd like to play before this.
Teknopathetic
Member
Wow. You're all really bitching about this price?
CajoleJuice
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In related news, Peggle Nights is also on Steam!
STEAM IS MY GOD
STEAM IS MY GOD
Yet, once you buy the game from retail, you can just use the key and download it directly, and Valve doesn't get the full $ which you payed (retail, distribution, boxes, print). I remember the talk about retail raising a fit of digital distribution charges less or whatever...Zzoram said:
Rur0ni said:
They did. Retail would be pissed if the Steam MSRP was $10 below what they had, and in retaliation they might pull the boxes off shelves. Retail is still a bigger market than online, so it would be too painful to bear.
I recall that Warhawk being $40 over PSN was causing EB to get furious.
Netrunner2k2
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Rur0ni said:
Retailers might get pissy and refuse to stock Valve games if they get undercut by the Steam service. Though Valve has had incredible success with Steam, they are not dumb enough to go around pissing off retailers and rely totally on Steam. There are some people out there that still prefer boxed games.
Remember that your money is not going to a final product like you get with most games out. Left 4 Dead is not going to be some static game or a game where extra content is going to be charged for. Valve is going up release updates similar to what they have done to TF2 and that game's content has grown a lot since it was first released.
Teknopathetic
Member
"TF2 being cheaper has affected what people expect. That said, Left 4 Dead looks like it'll be better than TF2, and have more content."
TF2 had 6 official maps at release. And not all of them were particularly good.
"After spoiling us with the insane value of Orange Box, paying a normal price for a fairly normal amount of content is slightly offputting. "
If thought that fluke deal was going to be the norm, you all were fooling yourselves.
I mean, really?
TF2 had 6 official maps at release. And not all of them were particularly good.
"After spoiling us with the insane value of Orange Box, paying a normal price for a fairly normal amount of content is slightly offputting. "
If thought that fluke deal was going to be the norm, you all were fooling yourselves.
I mean, really?
Netrunner2k2
Member
Zzoram said:
Or 100 dollars for someone like me who got Half-Life 2 Gold (we also got DOD:S for free when that was released too, I think).
That's great. I got Ep2, Portal and TF2 for $50. That's a good deal. It's not an insane deal.Zzoram said:
L4D appears to be quite a bit more game than TF2. $50 is exactly what it should be priced, and it's really what anyone who was paying attention knew it was going to be priced.
Iced_Eagle
Member
I can't believe you guys are complaining about the price at $45!?!?!
It's ridiculous.
You are all way too spoiled by The Orange Box if you thought all of Valve's games would be like $20 sold standalone or something. I could see bitching at $60 for PC for obvious reasons, but not for $50, or $45 pre-order.
I'll see you all day one!
It's ridiculous.
You are all way too spoiled by The Orange Box if you thought all of Valve's games would be like $20 sold standalone or something. I could see bitching at $60 for PC for obvious reasons, but not for $50, or $45 pre-order.
I'll see you all day one!
Big Takeover
Member
If there wasn't the almost compulsory $60 SKU, I don't think the PC version would be $50. That's a bit irritating. Regardless, I'm buying it, and probably on both platforms too.
legend166 said:
Yeah same. The dollar is fluctuating quite a lot right now though. I'm going to hold off until closer to the release date to see if the dollar goes back up a little before I purchase.
One Aus dollar only gets about US67c whereas before the crash a month or two ago we got close to US98c for our dollar. *sigh*
And yesI am whining. US$49 is quite steep, I wasn't expecting that. I was thinking more along the lines of US$29 to be honest.
Because you can't, or won't? Are you really that paranoid about your credit card information? That's quite silly - millions of games have been sold to millions of users on Steam, there's never been any leak of said information.GameGamer said:
Though if it's a matter of can't, for whatever reason, I remember reading somewhere about gift cards you can buy from banks. I know I've gotten a Visa gift card which is basically just a Visa debit/credit card that you can use like a normal credit card.
There's that option, Click&Buy, PayPal options too.