Darwinia To Be Distributed via Steam

Nuskrad writes "Independent developers Introversion Software, creators of cult hacking sim Uplink have announced a deal with Valve that will see their highly acclaimed title, Darwinia distributed on the Steam platform from December 15th. It is hoped that the deal will help boost sales of Darwinia, and the profile of Introversion Software, which has been struggling against the 'big boys' of the industry."

Comments

Re:I wish I could play it.

[Nuskrad]

There's a native Linux version of Darwinia, availiable directly from Introversion. The Steam deal only covers online distribution of the Windows version of Darwinia, IV are still handling retail boxes of Windows and Linux versions, and the Mac version is availiable from Ambrosia software. Here, have a demo

Re:Steam blows.

[GeckoX]

I'm quite certain his problem is that he was trying to run the same physical copy of HL2 under a different Steam account. That would get him blocked.

The account and the physical copy attached to the account go hand in hand.

Re:I wish I could play it.

[Jerf]

So, buy it directly. From that page:

• You are buying a CD with Linux and Windows that will be sent via the post.
• Your purchase entitles you to instantly download the LINUX version ONLY.

Re:Steam blows.

[Dave2 Wickham]

Just a few.

I'm still not excited about it

[alta]

Yeah, I bought it... nice idea. It was a great game while it lasted... but there lies the probelm. It's WAY to short. Maybe 10 hours of gameplay. The mod scene is non-existant, there are maybe a dozen incomplete mods. When it first came out it was riddled with bugs. I especially like the one where if you leave a certain amount of bugs alive on one level, (even though it tells you you're done) and then get to the last level, the game will crash without showing the end scene. Apparently you can't load mods until you've finished the game... It also won't let you reset the level to try again..... There was no fix, just play the entire game again, and make sure you don't trigger the bug this time.

I think THAT'S why no one is buying the game.

um...

[Anonymous Coward]

I have no problems running both HL2 and CS:S on multiple computers on my local network using the same steam login. In fact, I've never heard of anyone having a problem with this. Everyone complains about all these problems with Steam when in fact they dont even exist. Oh well, at least people find those ignorant posts "interesting".

When worse comes to worse you can always play HL2 on multiple computers in "offline mode":

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampower ed.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=213&p_creat ed=1094245645&p_sid=MA2oEYQh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoP SZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yNzM mcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9M Q

I've been using steam for 3 years or so, and yes, it did suck back in the day. It's working fine now so everyone can stop that annoying, ignorant whining.

Youve got it wrong

[Hard_Rock_2]

I hate steam as well, but your information is highly misleading.

There is no such thing as cd keys being bound to machine, they are bound to a specific account. So all your son would need to do to play the game on his computer would be to install steam and log in under your account information.

This means that you can log onto a friends computer, public computer and play steam from your account there no problem.(in fact over here at uni i have a few accounts so i log in under my friends comps so we can play online together)

The catch is only one account may be played at one time, if you are logged on your computer and your son logs on his computer you will get logged out. None of this banning bullshit your talking about. The banning was valve leaked a cdkey and around 30 000 people used this one key, if your key is already in use they will tell you it is in use, not ban you.

Steam is definetely not my preffered method of distribution (ut2k4 would be) but its far better then you portray it to be.

Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Those bugs were not only fixed in the first patch, but if you had actually bothered to visit the support forums, send an email to the team or even drop by the IRC channel you could have had it manually fixed.

And as for the mod scene: The Next Game and Stellar Matter should provide you with all the mods you want, and the mod scene continues on IV's mod boards.

So much for your complaints.

Re:Steam blows.

[SScorpio]

Then you don't really now what your talking about. I successfully ran my copy of Half-Life 2 on to seperate machines with no problem. As for issues with reinstalls, what issues? Just download steam and you can download the games back on to your machine with no issue, or you could just backup the game files so you don't have to redownload everything.

With Steam the games you can access are limited to your account. Did you buy Darwina and you want to show it off to your friend? Just goto his house, fire up Steam and login with your account. You can download the game and play.

Yes there has been the rare occasion where Steam's login server has gone down and you can't play the games, but the times that has happened can be counted on 1 hand, and I personally never tried playing on one of those days. And for the record I preloaded Half-Life 2 through Steam, and purchased it through Steam. The day it came out I unlocked the game and played.

You should try Steam before you badmouth it. Since you own Half-Life 1, just download the Steam client and input your CD key. You'll be able to download HL to any computer you access. You'll also get access to Counter Strike 1.6, Opposing Force, and Blue Shift. Learn what your complaing about before you start complaining. The only real issue I have with Steam is that you can't transfer access to games to different accounts. This prevents you selling your old copy of the game, but then again I still have every game I ever purchased...

Still sold

[Luigi30]

Darwinia will STILL HAVE A STEAM-LESS VERSION. If you'd read the site you'd know that.