this thing about Valve/Steam is rapidly getting off topic. I only wanted to visit it after Scott's mention because it falls into the category of pissing the customers off with marketing (and distribution) considerations (and technical speedbumps), and the fact that they are quite happy to walk away and go elsewhere (in my teens case, EVE Online as their latest fulltime interest). Team Fortress 2 is on the hit list to get uninstalled to create more room for other games.
@Paul - you're still not looking at Steam from a customers viewpoint. Try rewriting what you said to make it sound compelling for an end-user to buy into. They couldn't give a monkey's toss whether other companies are moving into the same distribution platform... why should they? my 2c On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Paul Du Bois <[email protected]> wrote: > Steam is the best online games distribution system around at the moment. > It certainly had a rocky start - a lot of people had dramas trying to > play Half Life 2 when it came out along with Steam. > > Advertising and automatic updates come with the territory imo. > > If Steam wouldn't work on their PCs then fair enough. > But in terms of annoying them - there's occasional steam client > auto-updates and the start-up news/special offers screen (which can be > turned off I think). > If that's all it takes to annoy your kids I feel sorry for you as a > parent - you must walk on eggshells around them! > > And in terms of more fish - yeah there's heaps of other games publishers > around, but more and more of them are moving to Steam as a distribution > channel. > Overall Steam has been the single smartest thing Valve has done so far. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry > Beattie > Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2009 10:49 AM > To: ozSilverlight > Subject: Re: Our new silverlight site > >> Abandoning a game on principles is rare dude :) Espec when it comes to > that game. > > no principles involved. They were sick of Steam continually annoying > them. and being broken. And they moved on. It was that simple. > > There are many more fish (games in this case, product suppliers in > general) in the sea. > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
