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How Steam Revived a Dead Game

Posted by Soulskill on from the price-is-right dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Advertising by rootofevil · · Score: 2, Funny

    wait, Daikatana was a game?

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  2. Re:Epic needs to fire its marketing staff by Panzor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, this game was released over a year ago? I've been telling people that I've been getting a launch title for twelve bucks o_o. I'm with this guy *points to above post*

  3. Re:Advertising by Anenome · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't remember the full-page magazine ads for Daikatana which said, "John Romero wants to make you his bitch. Suck it down!"?

    http://www.firingsquad.com/games/daikatana/

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  4. Re:Advertising by Hadlock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually it's just an internet meme of what would have happened if one of the id developers for doom had gone rouge and blown his entire fortune making a terrible game and blogging about it in a creatively named website named afterhimself. Fortunately that has never happened so we can all safely assume something that awful has never, and will never happen. And if it did happen, we'd never speak of it. Because you were joking when you replied to that guy, right?

    Right?

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  5. Re:Advertising by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot one: Non-existent game + years of hype = Duke Nukem Forever

  6. Re:Advertising by fractoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...if one of the id developers for doom had gone rouge and blown...

    *blush*

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  7. in that case it's the reverse by emj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Halo sold to mediocre gamers

    </anti:ms>

  8. Re:FUCK developers, and FUCK their rights! by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear you, brother! FUCK the developers at Epic who worked on the games to make a living!

    You fuck 'em, I've seen 'em.

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