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Old 21-02-2009, 08:38 AM
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Steam Game Client making tons of $$
My favorite game client (beats GFWL imo) is apparently making tons of money.

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Gaming portal Steam is making wade of cash by copying content delivery models more traditionally used by software pirates...
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Every time a new update is announced for Team Fortress 2, sales of the original game spike by at least 100 per cent and Steam registrations have been known to go up by 71 per cent.
Releaselog | RLSLOG.net Steam raking in cash with direct game sales
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Re: Steam Game Client making tons of $$
Well Kai, I guess when it comes to gaming: "The best things in life are not free"
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Steam has always been Hot!
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Old 21-02-2009, 04:17 PM
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Re: Steam Game Client making tons of $$
I only wish they were cheap. Lol. Games really cost a lot of money these days...
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I don't game but if I did, I wouldn't pay for it.

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Re: Steam Game Client making tons of $$
I just recently read a debate thread on whether or not Steam cost more than retail but I cannot currently relocate it.

Here were the results from last weekends sale:


I've loaded Steam onto ubuntu using Wine.

However I've never successfully loaded the needed NVIDIA driver to run any high end games.

HL2 or Bioshock or Orange Box not to mention Crysis although it has been done with a lot of tweaking by others:

crysis on linux - Google Search
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Old 22-02-2009, 04:27 AM
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Re: Steam Game Client making tons of $$
Do you think it costs more? I am somewhat tempted to think it costs slightly more as you don't get a physical copy of it. Furthermore these days you can activate your product on Steam even if you get retail (Unreal Tournament 3 for example).
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Re: Steam Game Client making tons of $$
I found part of what I was looking at before. Most of it deals with European pricing:

Looks like $1 = €1 after all - Steam Users' Forums
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