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New Silent Hill for PC only via Steam
New Silent Hill for PC only via Steam
Last updated on August 27, 2008 - 12:05.
Silent Hill is one of the best-known survival-horror franchises in the world. The newest part of the series Homecoming will be a multiplatform title, but PC users have to deal with one advantage/disadvantage: They won't find a Silent Hill: Homecoming DVD-box in any of their game stores. According to our information, the game's PC version will only be available via Valve's Steam download service. It seems Konami doesn't think a retail version is necessary.
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Last updated on August 27, 2008 - 12:05
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Konami, this was the wrong decision.
Can't understand that either, I guess they think it will give them added protection against piracy. So I guess I won't play it, I will never install that nosy Steam on my system and I wouldn't want to play a game that involves shooting on a console.
You will never install that nosy Steam? Does that mean you have never played Half-Life 2 or any of the follow-up episodes? Does that even mean you have never played Portal in your whole life? How can you live with that? ;)
Honestly: Steam is not as bad as many people paint it. I never had a single problem with it during the last three years.
I...ehh...well, you know....I get by, somehow... I did play the original Half-Life and the add-on Blueshift, the Box must be here somewhere, and I did play Half-Life 2 on a friends PC, but I didn't play anything after that. I struggled for a long time to get the orange box, just for Portal, but the cost-value ratio would have sucked and I would still have to install steam, so I didn't.
I'm sure you didn't have problems with it, I heard it's very nice and user-friendly, I'm just not ok with all the user-profiling they do. Storing how often I started the game, I could live with that...maybe, but storing how long I took for each level, how long and often I actually looked at the advertisements, that's just going to far for me, I don't own a payback-card for the same reasons.
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Interesting news, +10 EXP. It could be a test for Konami how digital download is doing for them, or (what I rather believe) they just don't think that Homecoming has great potential in the normal retail chains. Also, keep in mind that in the US, it's difficult to get a non-Sims, non-MMO PC game in many of the places where you would find PC Games in, let's say, Germany.
I'm still a fan of big dvd boxes that include posters, making-ofs etc. and hope that steel boxes or other special editions won't become obsolete! It would be terribele if the publishers will sell usual dvd boxes with a thin manual as collector's edition in the next years.
I don't even like DVD boxes :)
I just bought an original Fallout 1 (with box and everything) from the US, and inside was a manual which had metal rings like this. As if it was a real "Vault survival guide" from the Fallout 50ies universe.
You never get things like this in the normal box nowadays :(
I am a fan of big collector editions as well, and I liked the old 'Eurobox' as it was called, but I can understand that they try to keep packaging as cheap as possible and heres why I think so:
I bought Indiana Jones 3, the adventure in 1989 for about 75 Deutschmark I believe, if you convert that into Euros you end up with about 39 Euros. I bought Drakensang when it came out for 44,95 which is the normal price PC games go for these days, some are below 40, some are 49,99, but 45 is about the average. Console games don't count because they finance the console itself.
So after a currency change, an economical downfall and nearly 20 years of inflation I have to pay around 5 euros more?
I say it's no wonder we don't get thick handbooks, leather or cloth maps, posters and whatnot, for free anymore
Wow nice, the article went through 8 revisions from 5 different people, I think that is the single greatest thing about GamersGlobal.
Impressive for only four sentences ...
When I wrote the first version of the text, I didn't think this would be such an exciting subject.
Until now, you can buy almost all games in a shop, but this will change with the availability of fast internet. And this game is a good example.
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