Civilization Comes to Steam

Gamespot reports that yet another publisher has joined the ever-growing stable of Steam fans. 2K games is working to bring some of their games to the service, with Civilization III and IV coming to Steam this week, and other titles to follow. From the article: "Also included will be the high-seas adventure Sid Meier's Pirates! and the alternate-history real-time strategy game Shattered Union ... According to a statement released today by Valve, Steam currently has some 10 million customers for both its 'core' products--which include advanced shooters such as Half-Life 2--and casual games, such as PopCap Games' Bejeweled and Zuma. "

Re:If you buy from Steam, Steam works

[Thansal]

I assume you are reffering to the problems that came about from the launch of HL2 (assuming as you do not elaborate at all).

So again, most of the problems that were there have been fixed. Yes, you can play your purely offline content offline with no problems. Yes, you still need to unlock the game from the start, however I personaly prefer that to other forms of copy protection. Yes, the launch of HL2 was rocky b/c of the steam servers getting hammered horribly.

If you wana bash something, bash it, don't just make random comments.

As for the Civ series showing up on Steam? Nifty, I am always glad to see the library grwoing, admitedly I have no interest in strategy games so this is not great boon to me.

Re:High prices

[damiangerous]

Great, Civ 3 Complete is $18.98 [amazon.com] on Amazon. The listed MSRP is $19.99, so it's not like you're even getting a discount from them. Steam is selling it for $10 more than that. What benefit are they offering you for your $10?

Re:Old PC Games

[Anonymous Coward]

Never mind "ancient school", civ III should be $5-$10. $30 is a total rip-off, and makes a mockery of everything steam is "supposed" to stand for - it cuts out the publishers, they take 99.99% of the cost of a game for themselves - it allows us to deliver cheaper games to the end customer for a moderate inconvenience of not having a physical product and having to have internet activation . Absolute cheek.

Re:So what

[Zed2K]

Which you can't update with official patches until Direct2Drive puts out their own version of the patch. Steam is directly connected to the publisher which just pushes the patches out to the system to update automatically.