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Shattered Horizon overpriced!
Most of us – Steam Unpowered team – participated in closed beta of Shattered Horizon – a pretty decent space shooter. The agreement between testers and Futuremark forbids us to tell you more about the game or even post screenshots. Anyway, I will tell you that the first thing I did on the official forums was a thread with a request to price this game equally around the world as it comes out only on Steam. And guess what?
They annouced the pre-order of the game. Testers have it for 25% less (14,99€ in Europe excluding UK) and the rest of people 10% less (excluding UK). And it looks like this:
US: $17.99
UK: £13.49 (22% higher)
EU: 17,99€ (49% higher)
We’re not the only one whining about it.
If I remember correctly they replied in my thread that they will try to price it correctly (equally) but I guess they didn’t try hard enough.
PS
The game gets boring after few hours ;) – and no, we weren’t bad in it, we actually scored in top 10.
PS2
Get S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl instead – it’s a really fun and solid shooter for only 5€.
PS3
Better discount from futuremark store and even better if you own 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage or PCMark Vantage, you will receive a cdkey for your Steam account.
DLGamer: Discount coupon for our readers!
Thanks to DLGamer we received a 10% (5€) off discount coupon on the upcoming hit Borderlands.
The game is already 10% off in pre-order which gives us a total of 20% off.
Here’s the coupon:
5ER719935
And here’s a link to buy the game:
http://www.dlgamer.eu/buy-borderlands-p-5899.html
NOTE: STEAM UNPOWERED IS NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY WITH CDKEY STORES OR DIGITAL STORES, WE ARE JUST PROVIDING THE BEST STEAM ALTERNATIVES FOUND ON THE INTERNET. IF YOU THINK WE ARE ADVERTISING OUR OWN BUSINESS GO DIE IN HELL AND LEAVE THIS GROUP/WEBSITE.
Another success of World of Goo
Our users wrote some time ago that the 2D Boy company decided to sell their product for the price, the buyer chooses. This was a very good decision, because over 57.000 people bought it.
The detailed data shows that 16.582 people paid a penny, 6483 one dollar, while up to 15.797 issued a sum between one and two dollars, and more – up to six dollars – another 13.877 people.
Four people felt that the production of 2D Boy is worth $50, 306 paid $20, and 352 – $15.
In the end, the promotion increased sales of the game by almost 40% on Steam and the publisher has brought about $100,000.
It’s a remarkable success, World of Goo is a puzzle game created by small, independent studio.
Gordon Freeman is All The Greatest Video Game Hero!
Gamespot had contest running to find out, who is The Hero of all the video games. Their editors picked 64 heroes from various games for different gaming platforms to find out, who is the best hero of them all (One hero to rule them all, one hero to find them, one hero to bring them all and in the darkness bind them). Players all around the world had chance to vote for their favorite hero for 3 months.
Gabe Newell in Australia
Sorry I’m posting this so late but I didn’t have much time. Here’s the presentation from Australia – with Joe (the creator of Fly Gabe Newell campaign) and Gabe Newell. Unfortunately Joe did not ask a question from our group (at least not on the video) which simply was “why do Europeans have to pay twice on Steam?” but I don’t blame him… I mean he met Gabe Newell, good job :)
Watch the video right here:
And here’s the original article from byteside.com
Joe W-A was miffed when the L4D campaign mod he’d been working on wasn’t deemed awesome enough to warrant him being flown to Valve HQ to preview L4D2. Other modders were, mostly to get them onside as peer-leaders to counter the odd anti-L4D2 community uprising happening at the time.
Anyway, Joe managed to get Gabe Newell to agree to fly to Brisbane, Australia to check out the mod-in-progress — provided Joe paid the airfare. “I was just joking”, said Gabe today. With pure internet inventiveness, Joe got the community rallied and raised the fare in a couple of days.
Euro Gamer prepares it’s own digital distribution store!
According to Czech Euro Gamer website (translated by Google) they are planning to start a new digital distribution service for Europeans called Get Games.
And here’s what they said:
Steam’s European competition was officially announced today. People prefer digital distribution before retail versions of games. The increase in popularity of services such as Steam is a nice proof.
European network Eurogamer is planning its own digital distribution system called Get Games – in cooperation with Mastertronic, which is a well known British distribution company.
“Mastertronic sold over 30 million titles on the PC platform,” said Andy Payne, head of the company. “The last five years, we’ve been selling some titles in pure digital form, so we gathered enough experience in this field. When you combine that experience with quality content and attendance of Eurogamer, we have a winning formula.”
Focus new digital distribution to Get Games on PC games.
The offer will be: the latest news, independent and classic titles and games available for free.
“Small and independent producers often contact us because they want us to help in promoting their games,” said Rupert Loman, Managing Director of Eurogamer Network. “With this new service we can provide a lot of such gaming enthusiasts.”
Get Games will have its headquarters in London. It will have all sorts of specialists, programmers and customer support. The exact launch date has not yet been officially announced, but it will be sooner than you probably think.
Future goal is to start local versions of the new service for digital distribution across Europe.
Thanks to fix-cz for providing the news!
Steam: New Lucas Arts games over priced but…
We asked about it on the official Lucas Arts Twitter account and believe it or not they did respond:
See it here: http://twitter.com/lucasartsgames/status/4014989632
Loading ...The Fly Gabe Newell Fund Has Been Successful!
The creators of the Fly Gabe Newell Fund have raised over $3000 in order to fly Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson to Australia to show them their Left 4 Dead campaign. If you don’t know what the hell is this about go here first.
This is one of the latest replies from Gabe Newell:
The English language lacks the words to express the level of excitement Erik and I feel that you and your friends have pulled this off. Give us some time to organize our affairs, as we are trying to ship a product, and then we’ll let you know the time and date of our arrival. Give our best to Robin’s mother, as she is apparently a neighbor of yours.
Gabe & Erik
I believe we will have some pictures over here when that happens ;)
Update:
My last post, suggesting that perhaps Batman’s trusty sidekick Robin had donated to our cause, was made in error – for there can now be no doubt that the real Robin has contributed. The incredible Robin Walker of Valve Software, that is! He attached the following message:
This is Robin Walker, from Valve. The rest of us at Valve would sure appreciate a couple of days without Erik around, so thanks for organising this!
Quick question though: if I donated more, would you buy a one-way ticket for him?
Robin.
Thanks, Robin!
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