My first computer was a laptop i convinced my parents to get me for school for my 14th birthday. I will tell you it definately helped my grades especially in english. I went from getting C- in english for years to getting A's in english. and most of my teachers loved that i turned in every assignment neatly typed
Call me stupid, but I never played half-life until about 2 months after HL2 came out. When I finished playing HL 1 I ran out that same day and bought HL2 at my local Best Buy. I had no idea that there were different versions of the game. I hadn't even heard of steam until I installed HL2. I would have gone for the Silver or Gold package if I had known about it, and now there is no way to upgrade to Silver or Gold. I think that if a company is going to make different versions of the game they should get the word out better. At my local best buy they don't even put out the special editions. You have to ask them to go look in the back to see if they have it.
If I were a gameing company I would put a sticker or something on the box of the basic version of the game telling people that there is a special edition. It is just plain buisness sense. The sticker will cost them about a penny and if only 2 out of every 1000 people buy the special edition (I'm sure that more than 2/1000 people will buy it) because of the sticker they will have made back the cost of the sticker plus some extra money. Money! Isn't that the point of a buisness.
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My first computer was a laptop i convinced my parents to get me for school for my 14th birthday. I will tell you it definately helped my grades especially in english. I went from getting C- in english for years to getting A's in english. and most of my teachers loved that i turned in every assignment neatly typed
Call me stupid, but I never played half-life until about 2 months after HL2 came out. When I finished playing HL 1 I ran out that same day and bought HL2 at my local Best Buy. I had no idea that there were different versions of the game. I hadn't even heard of steam until I installed HL2. I would have gone for the Silver or Gold package if I had known about it, and now there is no way to upgrade to Silver or Gold. I think that if a company is going to make different versions of the game they should get the word out better. At my local best buy they don't even put out the special editions. You have to ask them to go look in the back to see if they have it.
If I were a gameing company I would put a sticker or something on the box of the basic version of the game telling people that there is a special edition. It is just plain buisness sense. The sticker will cost them about a penny and if only 2 out of every 1000 people buy the special edition (I'm sure that more than 2/1000 people will buy it) because of the sticker they will have made back the cost of the sticker plus some extra money. Money! Isn't that the point of a buisness.