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Please don't put Elite: Dangerous on Steam...no reason for Steam people to flood the game.
You can add it as non-steam app, and even get the overlay working.
Yup, even though DBOBE himself has said it likely that the game won't be on Steam, the thread trundles slowly on regardless, sort of like my T9.
Not sure what you are trying to insinuate there, but this community is not exactly the holy grail of online communities, it has more than its fair share of undesirables.
As for being short sighted, the extra revenue for FD would fuel future updates for ED (a good thing) and with the current system of solo / private groups and open play, if you don't want to play along side someone, you don't have to - so it does not matter whom plays from the Steam side of things, you can play without them.
As a 10-11 year vet of steam and with over 280 titles (10 of which are free to play titles) I would back ED on steam 100%. No scratched DVD's or broken boxes, great download speeds at all time of the day and night, great deals on 1000's of titles almost every month and great exposure for any game
And the massive exposure to the biggest gaming community in the world is only a positive.
Now, if FD did end up putting ED on steam I doubt 100% that they would rely on steam for all future logins, it would be just another way for future users to access this product and would not affect all the current users in anyway what so ever.
The only reason you would not want ED to be sold on steam is your own personal tastes/beliefs on capitalism.
I for one want as much exposure for the game as is possible, it would only bring extra cash in to FD and that would on help enrich everybody's experience of ED in the long run.
For me there is zero reason to disagree to having steam as a way for others to access the content FD is offering.
Even bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 a few days ago and am throughly enjoying another great FD title (via steam).
And the massive exposure to the biggest gaming community in the world is only a positive.
Now, if FD did end up putting ED on steam I doubt 100% that they would rely on steam for all future logins, it would be just another way for future users to access this product and would not affect all the current users in anyway what so ever.
The only reason you would not want ED to be sold on steam is your own personal tastes/beliefs on capitalism.
I for one want as much exposure for the game as is possible, it would only bring extra cash in to FD and that would on help enrich everybody's experience of ED in the long run.
For me there is zero reason to disagree to having steam as a way for others to access the content FD is offering.
Even bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 a few days ago and am throughly enjoying another great FD title (via steam).
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So right
I was at my mates yesterday and I said I have been playing ED and he said "I really wanted it but it is not on steam!" so I told him you have to go to the main site to buy it lol
Well, yea... except when there's a sale of something and their servers tank.
I hope so *prostration*
I think that the bigger mistake was not having a boxed version ready for the shops at christmas. I was in Game on Boxing day morning and the queues were out the door with people and their game cards they had for Christmas, all wanting to buy software. Whilst I was in the queue, I heard a number of them ask the assistants did they know when Elite would be available, only to be told "did'nt have a clue", meanwhile box versions of Far Cry4 and COD were flying off the shelves.
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steam isn't that bad i mean when it came out everyone hated it because at the time it was simpler to join games in half-life with the WON system the built in server browser. it got slated because it was initially bloatware when the average pc didn't have more than 1gb of ram and you had to load up a program to join games and thats all it did at the time it was basically just a server browser for half-life. these days though its a non-issue.
I think FD would definitely increase their sales by putting it on steam but i dunno how much steam take as a cut probably insignificant to the amount of sales they'd get.
I think FD would definitely increase their sales by putting it on steam but i dunno how much steam take as a cut probably insignificant to the amount of sales they'd get.
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Valve doesn't disclose the size of their fee, but 15% is the number often comes up in unofficial discussions. If true, that's a pretty large cut, given that Elite is a niche game with a specific audience that may not benefit from wide exposure as much as most titles. I guess FD weighed up all pros and cons and decided publication on Steam would not be beneficial to the project at this point. I don't care either way, I can (and have) add ED to my library as a non-steam game if I want to use its features such as overlay, broadcasting and social stuff, but I'm not one of those fanatics who refuse to buy a game if it's not on their favorite DD platform.
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Don't think this would happen. The whole point of Frontier going the donation route was so they could control how the profts went towards the game and not a 3rd party. Even if it is just a "store" to some, Valve are a publisher and do want a fee for listing a game on Steam. It would undermine sales at the site, and steam would demand a sale discount time period on it too.
Yeah, only those boxed copies are mostly there for older conservative gamers who mistrust digital versions because they're not 'tangible' enough for them. Also, those going to gift the game may prefer a physical copy; either way I don't think those two groups make up a large part of sales. Steam version, however, would create direct competition for FD's own store over the main source of their income.
Let us use Steam broadcasting with E
You can add 3rd party games to Steam library and stream games inside Steam (yeah there's a new broadcasting beta for which you can opt in), but only if you launch the game from Steam. However when you add E executable in Steam and try to launch it from inside Steam client, you will encounter an error telling you to launch the game from launcher, thus making it impossible to stream it inside Steam. Sure we can use OBS & Twitch, but a lot gamers use Steam social tools and I think this would be a great way to both gain visibility for E as well as easy sharing for players.
You can add 3rd party games to Steam library and stream games inside Steam (yeah there's a new broadcasting beta for which you can opt in), but only if you launch the game from Steam. However when you add E
executable in Steam and try to launch it from inside Steam client, you will encounter an error telling you to launch the game from launcher, thus making it impossible to stream it inside Steam. Sure we can use OBS & Twitch, but a lot gamers use Steam social tools and I think this would be a great way to both gain visibility for E as well as easy sharing for players.Hmm, the game just doesn't load from Frontier's launcher--all I get is a black screen. If I use workarounds it is possible to get this game to launch. Perhaps Steam would help them get it working?
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