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And are you going to apologise to the people you barked at on this thread that it was a lie, now that it's been officially confirmed?
well now yall have yalls clarification![]()
And are you going to apologise to the people you barked at on this thread that it was a lie, now that it's been officially confirmed?
Man, what the hell happened to Gabe Newell? Valve, instead of making games, are just hoarding money for the last 10 years.
I've pre-purchased my copy directly from Frontier but totally agree with you in this case.I got this game on Steam and waited for it. And i will do anything to support Valve and Steam, they done so much for the gaming industry and they deserve it. Frontier gets enough money so far and with Steam they can reach way more people than before, paying a bit for joining the biggest gaming plattform ever - its worth it.
foil hats off, if you buy from ed store steam do not get a cut. simple as that. if you do have a steam key also and you buy expansions and whatnot from the ed store frontier get all the cash + it will still be linked on steam as all that does is log into your account anyway. the suggestion to buy from frontier is simply that, buying from them gives frontier all the money. buy the same dlc from steam and they take a cut. either way both will link to your main account no matter if its on steam or not.
I'm going to have to see someone from FD publicly say here that the agreed upon deal for legacy customers is they get a cut, because that's not the sense I get when I load from steam and it launches the FD launcher and no it isn't the secondary interface between the two launchers before the keys were given out. If it is then I'll disconnect my account if I can.
My goodness what a silly idea. Some people are under the imperssion that Valve is somehow forcing Frontier to use their service, and that Frontier is somehow losing money because of this. First of all, Frontier is a multi-billion dollar company, so is Valve. Frontier decided to sell their product through steam. They did this for theirown financial reasons, better marketing and so on. Froniter knows the full implication of being on steam, they also understand the financial implications of giving out steam keys to all existing players. If it was really so financially destructive to do so, they would not have done it. But to clear it up a little more, I think it works like this. Any one who buys the game now through steam, Valve will get a cut, sure, makes sense. But in what way will me linking my account, who I have already paid frontier in full, take money away from frontier in the future? When I launch ED, it starts their launcher, ever notice that all the extra products, merchandise, paint jobs, etc. are all advertised within their launcher, not on the steam page. Also I assume all future expansions for ED will most likely be sold through the ED launcher, not steam. You don't need to worry so much about Frontiers financial situation, Valve is not evil, they are partners working together. Any one who hates steam for one reason or another, but loves PC gaming needs to do some soul searching. Steam has single handedly brought PC gaming from the dead. 10 years ago all the predictions were for consoles to take over, now it's exactly the opposite, and we have steam to thank for that.
in big red and to be frank no game Dev going to tell you jack this was also brought up on sto forums and we got jack nothing from them to
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Seems like a perfectly reasonable bandwidth charge to me. Valve provide the files as a mirror to Steam users in exchange for 30% of any DLC charges. Bandwidth is not free and Steams network is much faster than Fdevs (technically Amazon's)
HTC VIVE and HL-3 incomming together-Still not releasing half life 3.
I got this game on Steam and waited for it. And i will do anything to support Valve and Steam, they done so much for the gaming industry and they deserve it. Frontier gets enough money so far and with Steam they can reach way more people than before, paying a bit for joining the biggest gaming plattform ever - its worth it.
I've pre-purchased my copy directly from Frontier but totally agree with you in this case.
Frontier gets a lot more players thanks to Steam.
This is the main reason I linked my account to Steam, I got very tired of downloading patches at 7kB/s.
Additionnal perks are the fact my friends can know when I'm playing, and the Steam overlay.