ARMA2 & OA's Steam Thread: All Steam Q's/discussions go here [covered by Dwarden]

[walker]

Hi all

Wow an unreleased game is number 7 in the Steam Top Sellers Chart.
http://store.steampowered.com/

Well spotted Bergotronic.

Kind Regards walker

[4 IN 1]

the problem is that we will get a lot more bitching and moaning if BI fail to fix the game in time(which is very likely)

[kavoven]

Why does it still cost 47,99 €? I mean, I don't get any cool box or a manual or anything...Thats disappointing, I thought about buying the game online to save some money but this is even more expensive than the game in stores when you compared the stuff you get.

[4 IN 1]

well, because it is steam! and steam are always sucking your money as much as possible

[Bergotronic]

On that note... Steam shows MetaCritic reviews for all games on the service. I was afraid that some of the European reviews on metacritic would have lower reviews since they will have the earlier unpatched copies, and this in turn would drive away potential buyers of a (hopefully) patched steam world release version of ARMA2.

Hopefully the UK gaming press is smart enough to realize the awesomeness of arma2.

[Dwarden]

Hi all

Wow an unreleased game is number 7 in the Steam Top Sellers Chart.
http://store.steampowered.com/

Well spotted Bergotronic.

Kind Regards walker

well Killing Floor was top1 ... so there is still higher place to reach

[Berghoff]

Why does it still cost 47,99 €? I mean, I don't get any cool box or a manual or anything...Thats disappointing, I thought about buying the game online to save some money but this is even more expensive than the game in stores when you compared the stuff you get.

Yes its a shame really. Couple months ago Steam made Dollars into Euros 1:1 so any advantage was lost. Why buy a game on Steam if you can buy it retail at €39,99? I thought originally idea of Steam was to make games cheaper due lack of publisher... maybe i'm wrong.

[Sniperwolf572]

Why does it still cost 47,99 €? I mean, I don't get any cool box or a manual or anything...Thats disappointing, I thought about buying the game online to save some money but this is even more expensive than the game in stores when you compared the stuff you get.

I reckon it's the whole $=€ prank Valve is pulling, ArmA2 is $49.99/47.99€ depending on where you're located, pretty gross.

Yes its a shame really. Couple months ago Steam made Dollars into Euros 1:1 so any advantage was lost. Why buy a game on Steam if you can buy it retail at €39,99? I thought originally idea of Steam was to make games cheaper due lack of publisher... maybe i'm wrong.

Agreed, less is more doesn't apply to games imho.

[NuclearDruid]

well, because it is steam! and steam are always sucking your money as much as possible

Steam stated many times, they do not decide the price, the publisher does. So if you encounter the 1:1 ration with euro/dollar, it's not steam's fault, it's the publishers that decided it was a good idea. Though whenever I travel to europe, I tend to see games that are 1:1 ratio same price in game stores versus game stores here.

[TCEd]

Why does it still cost 47,99 €? I mean, I don't get any cool box or a manual or anything...Thats disappointing, I thought about buying the game online to save some money but this is even more expensive than the game in stores when you compared the stuff you get.

The "stuff you get" is a box.

As for a manual, you can already get those online, so no loss there.

And you may be forgetting shipping cost, so while the price may not be lower than the UK version, it's certainly not out of the question to high ether & in some cases when you factor in shipping cost, it's cheaper.

Steam gives you some other things as well, check out this post by Hoak;

Steam offers a built in integrated CRC checker that lets you check the integrity of your entire game installation (Properties >>> Local Files >>> Verify the integrity of game cache) that also solves a lot of headaches before they happen (corrupt, missing or infected file) which can resolve a lot of issues, or at least take one more step out of any trouble-shooting scenario.