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Watch out: Valve has introduced regional restrictions to some gift purchases from Steam

 

Previously they stated, that any game (gift) which was bought in Steam Store will not have any regional restrictions to add to the library and play (it is well known that CD keys usually have various restrictions on activation and playing). Actually steam support still claims that gifts will not be region locked, but it is not true, there were several solid confirmations that restrictions exist.

Right now you should be aware of following gifts.

Max payne 3 Pre order 1 (CIS) – sub id 14524 The gift has following parameter in its cdr record:

onlyallowrunincountries = AM AZ BY GE KZ KG MD RU TJ TM UZ UA LV LT EE

which means it can not be runned outside CIS countries

Max payne 3 Pre order 1 (RU) – sub id 14623 with parameter

onlyallowrunincountries = RU

which means that it will be playable only inside Russia.

Also note, that there is another gift with the same name (Max payne 3 Pre order 1 (RU)), but different subscription id ([4] 14100). It is not locked, but Max Payne 1 & 2 form this gift will contain russian language pack ONLY. It was available to purchase in Russia till 12 of May. From this moment only restricted version (sub 14524) is available for Russians.

Other region locked gifts:

Source: reddit

NOT cool Valve/publishers.

Join the Official Rockstar Community on Steam and Receive a Free Copy of Midnight Club 2

Join the Official Rockstar Games Community on Steam at http://steamcommunity.com/games/rockstargames by 10 am Pacific Time on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, and receive one non-giftable copy of Midnight Club 2 in your Steam account by May 29th.

Eligibility: User must have an account with at least one successful purchase, gift or retail registration in the account. The offer is not available to users who already own Midnight Club 2.

Patch for Windows Vista/Windows 7: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=730578

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To celebrate they are giving away 20 of the best Epic tracks from their games over the years.  They’ve hand picked and remastered a soundtrack that includes everything from Jazz Jackrabbit to Unreal Tournament. There are even a few surprise tracks that have never before been released on our soundtrack!

Make sure to get the whole soundtrack and rock out to some retro video game tunes! Uśmiech

1. Unreleased Theme
Unreal Tournament 3
Rom Di Prisco (2007)

 

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EA invites you to give feedback on Origin

 

EA have put up a blog entry called, “Continuing the Origin Conversation”, or, “Please tell us what we’re doing wrong.” The post invites users to comment on their favourite Origin feature, as well as features they’d like to see added in the future.

The post has already attracted over 300 comments, from, “I would like a clock on the overlay so I can check the time easier while playing” to “Please add a feature to purchase and play EA games through Steam.” A live question-and-answer follow-up with Origin’s head honches Robert Kissinger and Mike Lewis will take place on Tuesday.

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has previously voiced concerns about Origin, saying, “I don’t think they’re doing anything super well yet,” but going on to say that they’re “recognising what the challenges are” and “playing catch up.” He also reiterated that Valve is keen to have EA games back on their Steam digital distribution service.

Origin has attracted a lot of people last year with BF3 release and few others this year, they are also trying to improve their service everyday. They’re also keenly interested in PC gaming, as evidenced by their Indie Bundle.

Source: PC Gamer

Valve Confirms: No new product announcements at E3

Valve has confirmed to IGN that it will not be announcing any new projects at this year’s E3.

Previously, a great deal of speculation has surrounded the announcement of Half-Life 3, among other projects. The Half-Life franchise was last seen in 2007 with the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in The Orange Box.

At the moment, Valve is working on Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, both of which are currently in closed beta. In addition, new Portal 2 DLC is set to arrive in the coming weeks.

Source: IGN UK

Steam adding remote game installs (over browser or mobile device)

Here’s official Steam Support article. And a shot from official forums beta thread:

No pre-loading? Not a problem anymore. Queue up your game at work and play when you get home. Same goes for being out of town for lets say future Steam holiday sales.

Here’s a screenshot of the remote installation progress:

EA to disable purchased copies of Rock Band on iOS

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While the recent news about the DLC outage finally ending for all users, it looks like another form of Rock Band may be coming to a more permanent end in the near future. Rock Band iOS app will “no longer be playable” after May 31st, according to an in-game pop up message when loading the app (see below).

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Despite the impending fate of the app, there are no indications that a similar situation will be occurring with the more recent Rock Band Reloaded app.

They probably ran out of licensing time for some of the songs and had to disabled the app. This sucks hard though.

Source: reddit

Update:

WTF?

r9nyo

Canonical in touch with Valve to ensure Steam is well supported on Ubuntu

 

 

Lots of Steam on Linux news this week after Michael Larabel visited Valve office and confirmed Steam and Source Engine on Linux.

Now, in a Live QA session for Ubuntu 12.04 release, Ubuntu Developer and Community Manager Jono Bacon said that he knows Canonical has been in touch with Valve to ensure top notch support of Steam client on Ubuntu.

Check out the video, skip to 52:14 for Steam part:

Probably Canonical already had idea about Steam on Linux before Phoronix broke the news? Also, according to Michael Larabel, Ubuntu has worked out a gaming deal from a big publisher. These games may be available in Ubuntu Software Center later this year.

It seems, Canonical has plans to push Ubuntu as a gaming platform this year to increase mainstream adoption.

Source: Ubuntu Vibes

Crytek: It Would Be ‘Awesome’ If Next-Gen Consoles Blocked Used Games

srajtek“Would an end to used game sales be good for developers?

German developer Crytek sold 3 million copies of Crysis 2. Another 4 million copies were pirated, making it the most pirated game of 2011.

“It’s very flattering and upsetting at the same time,” Crytek’s director of creative development, Rasmus Højengaard, told CVG. “Obviously you miss so much revenue, it’s so clear that a lot of people want to play your game but they don’t really want to pay for it, which is unfortunately really disappointing.”

“It’s also a little flattering because people are willing to bother download these 10GB files or whatever the game takes because they think it looks great. We obviously want to avoid that this time, but even if we can convert 25 percent of those gamers into paying customers [you have an extra million sales].”

The thing about piracy that is often left unsaid is that not all of those pirated copies would convert into game sales even if we could eradicate piracy entirely. 4 million pirated copies of a game is not the equivalent of 4 million lost sales, even if it may indeed represent lost revenue. This isn’t to either justify or condemn piracy – it’s a complicated issue that stems largely from a lack of trust – but simply to point out that sometimes combating piracy is not the best way to staunch the bleeding.

Which brings us to used games, another phenomenon Crytek would be happy to end if it could. Asked whether he’d like to see a used game blocking feature in next-gen consoles, Højengaard said:

“From a business perspective that would be absolutely awesome. It’s weird that [second-hand] is still allowed because it doesn’t work like that in any other software industries, so it would be great if they could somehow fix that issue as well.”

(…)

The inevitable end of used games is probably just around the corner. Why change anything on the console side of the equation when the problem will “self-correct” on its own?

As to used games themselves, I’d be pretty happy with a digital download service like Steam replacing discs altogether on consoles, used games included. I’d be much less happy with some sort of built-in mechanism that renders used games useless without activation. What if my console breaks and I need to replace it? Would I need to pay to activate all my old games if I wanted to use them on the new machine? From a consumer perspective it would most definitely not be awesome.

That being said, the GameStop business model is hardly laudable. Yes, gamers should be allowed to sell their own games, but that doesn’t make GameStop an admirable middle-man for those transactions.

CVG’s Tom Ivan thinks that Crytek “would have received a great deal more revenue, were it not for second-hand game sales and piracy.” But it’s impossible to say if an end to used game sales would increase new game sales any more than an end to piracy would. People might simply buy fewer games, or fewer new releases.”

Source: Forbes

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