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How Steam Revived a Dead Game
Ask Stenum writes "Rock Paper Shotgun has an interesting write-up about how Unreal Tournament 3 has risen from the dead after Epic Games patched it, made a deal with Valve to put it on Steam and making it available for free for a weekend. It's interesting to see how a multiplayer game that's almost one and a half years old suddenly has become what it never could be; a game with multiple players. What other (maybe older?) online multiplayer games would you like to see make a comeback?"
UT3's resurgence was mentioned here briefly last week as part of our discussion on the future of game pricing.
Recently, posts about Steam are filled with sound-alike postings all singing its praises in similar ways, or then, this type of gushing post.
Yet Steam still sucks.
Did Valve read all the bad press Steam was getting on Slashdot, and send astroturfers out in force?
Because nothing about Steam has changed. Only the postings.
Or PirateBay them all for free.. And no STEAMy pile of you_know_what.
Pirate Bay to all Steam players: No Network? No problem!
Tribes vengeance is much better, too much of a learning curve for most noobs though...