How Steam Revived a Dead Game

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @04:34PM 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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Re:Advertising by fractoid · 2009-03-17 19:24 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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in that case it's the reverse by emj · 2009-03-17 23:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Halo sold to mediocre gamers

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Re:FUCK developers, and FUCK their rights! by drinkypoo · 2009-03-18 00:48 · 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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