Thief Series quite likely to hit Steam soon... - by Muscle Horse
Muscle Horse on 16/3/2007 at 21:00
Or so I guess. Valve appear to have struck a deal with Eidos and amongst the 'first wave' of releases are a few golden oldies, including the Commandos series.
Surely it's not at all unthinkable that we may be able to Steamanise our favourite game very soon?
I already own all three on disk but, frankly, I'd rather have the convenience of an access anywhere copy. I just hope there won't be any issues with FMs.
Abysmal on 16/3/2007 at 21:14
If there are issues we should try to find a way to make them work, rather than stubbornly clutch our CD copies until the end of time. Downloads are the successor.
Dia on 16/3/2007 at 22:12
Quote Posted by Abysmal
Downloads are the successor.
Not if you have dial-up. :( :(
SD on 17/3/2007 at 01:47
Please tell me nobody outside the third world has dial up these days :erm:
That said, I can't put a digital download on my shelf. I'll not be buying anything on download that I can get in a box.
New Horizon on 17/3/2007 at 02:16
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Please tell me nobody outside the third world has dial up these days :erm:
Plenty of people still have dial up, not everybody lives in an area that can be serviced by high speed yet. Rural locations are lucky dial up works at all.
Abysmal on 17/3/2007 at 02:26
You can put a single external hard drive on your bookshelf (plus a second backup drive if you're smart). It's "tangible" in a sense, for those that need that touchy-feely ingrained materialism. Eventually people will adapt and break these rooted conventions, be it through logical rationalization, quiet resignation, new frilly software that displays a phantom 3D box/manual (hi iTunes), etc.
Course if you're on dial-up well... man that's harsh.
SD on 17/3/2007 at 03:28
Quote Posted by Abysmal
Eventually people will adapt and break these rooted conventions, be it through logical rationalization, quiet resignation, new frilly software that displays a phantom 3D box/manual (hi iTunes), etc.
Right. And I suppose books will die out too :rolleyes:
It's rather less to do with "rooted conventions" and everything to do with aesthetics.
Abysmal on 17/3/2007 at 03:49
Books'll go that route too. Haven't been tracking all the digitizing initiatives from Google, Amazon and friends? Or what portable players are doing for audiobooks. Certainly it'll take much, much longer for books (considering the sheer breadth of their history and them having the least to do with technology), and better hardware needs to be there, but it's coming along. I can see future generations adapting to their own brand of aesthetics while the old curmudgeons go on and on about the "feel" of some product in their hand
nicked on 17/3/2007 at 09:58
books won't die out until there are handheld computers that never get hot and don't hurt your eyes after a while. Have you ever tried reading a whole book online? After a few hours, you can almost smell the scorched flesh of your retinas...
SubJeff on 17/3/2007 at 10:57
Books and games you can hold will never die out. Not until almost every last person in the world has a portable reader and downloadable games come with much easier methods to re-download and install them. And neither is likely.
