Comments on: THQ’s upcoming Metro 2033 to use Steamworks on PC

By: Babaum

Babaum — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:41:44 +0000

Admin Edit : Apologies to Babaum, but the comment you left didn’t really have anything to do with the topic of the article. We love getting feedback and comments, but please keep them on topic. Thanks.

By: Cliff Riseborough

Cliff Riseborough — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:25:34 +0000

Seeing as Metro 2033 was developed using Unreal Engine 3, and Epic and Valve just announced any title using UE3 will get free access to Steamworks if it’s wanted, I’d guess they paid nothing for it. Valve’s going to make a cut from every sale of the game from its service anyway, so they can afford to give it away.

I also wonder if a really great game came out without DRM, who would buy it? It would either be a very poor seller or the PC hit of the decade. Not sure which.

That really is the proverbial million dollar question. What would happen?

By: stuart.counter

stuart.counter — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:16:57 +0000

I wonder how much they have paid to have steam handle the DRM?

I also wonder if a really great game came out without DRM, who would buy it? It would either be a very poor seller or the PC hit of the decade. Not sure which.

By: Cliff Riseborough

Cliff Riseborough — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:17:36 +0000

Valve is definitely smart enough to add enough value to their system that a lot of gamers (myself included) don’t mind their system. Same deal with Battle.net. Honestly, had Ubisoft followed those models, I don’t think the uproar would have been as loud as it has been (though the European servers bombing out for an entire weekend didn’t help).

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:10:40 +0000

Steam is much better than most of the crappy DRM limitations coming out.

By: nosteam

nosteam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:23:39 +0000

Another automatic no buy… not interested in Steamworks or Steam itself.