Sins is one of the best RTS games i've ever played. and i've been more than willing to pay £25 for it. however i don't want to use impulse.
Since release i've been waiting patiently for it to come out on steam and yet there is no sign of it what so ever. even the shops are selling it dirt cheap because its been around for so long, but i've got waaaaay too many boxes and i'm only interested in buying digital versions of games since i no longer have space in the real world.
I think that everyone should have the choice to be able to buy the games that they want to buy through their provider of choice, theres plenty of them out there. I know that some prefer "Direct 2 Drive" and "Gameplay" etc and i'm sure that impulse has its fans too but me I LOVE STEAM.
Steam is my games provider of choice because i like the service, the interface etc etc etc. but thats my choice and i'm still willing to pay £25 for sins as long as its available on STEAM
so even though its available for £11.99 i'm gonna have to ignore it and continue playing other games until stardock realizes that there are tons of games who do not want a boxed copy and would their games through their digital provider of choice.
This is a lost cause, folks. To steal an idea I read somewhere...you can't reason a person out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.
Go on thinking Stardock is stupid for not allowing Sins on Steam. And go on not playing the game. We'll be here when/if you finally come around.
I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. And why on earth do I have to install dozens of CDs in order to play all the games I like and using various clients, background programs and updaters for it?!
On a more serious note: are you really actually crying about the need to install a different download program in order to download/update this game? Grow up..that's like complaining about the need to have multiple contracts to get gas/power/internet/water/telephone/a place to live/food...
problem is, that Steam at the moment has a much larger fan base and customer base than Impulse
so if Stardock paved the way and released their games on Steam, Steam could just go "Thanks matey" and not release its games on Impulse because, honestly, they dont need to
long story short, i think you are an ignoramous. you make overgeneralised, sweeping statements that have very little if any truth in them, and you are depriving yourself of a great game because you dont want to install one more program on your computer
you deserve everything you get
get a rental space, and store your game , If you organize it better I am pretty sure you could fit another 5000 games in one storage space
I'd like to suggest this thread be closed. It's either whamming your head against a brickwall, or getting caught in a blackhole - both go no-where.
haz
Or buy a terrabyte external hardrive!
Cost 100 canadian dollars and will let you store 1 000 GBs of data! more than enough for all your little games...and possibly for the next ten years +_+ too.
I have one of those. I didn't buy it with Canadian dollars though.....
Samurye.
I'm planning on getting one! My hard drive is getting close to critical!!!
Too many games and shows....must refrain from downloading.....NOOOOOooooooo
I agree completely.
This is getting nowhere. The OP doesn't sound like someone who is going to change his mind and he's not going to persuade the community in general.
Close please.
This thread really is useless right now. The OP is being childish and whiney. End of story.
Valve Marketing employee spotted....
I have 26 games on Steam, and I have 6 on Impulse. Wooptidoo.
To sum up your post...
WIN! And so true.
So still no sign of it comming out on steam then?
I've only read a few of your replies but simply put, I'm not a rich man and I live in a small house, space is mega essential and thats why I only buy games/movies etc in digital formats.
As for Hard drive space I have 6TB in my gaming rig and 10TB in my server which is located in my attic (lack of space etc).
A few of you have mentioned about me trying to convert you or being whinney. Trueth is I'd just like to own a legitimate copy of this really good game and I really don't care what digital/retail service you use for your gaming needs.
And yes you are right I will wait until the game is released on steam no matter how long it takes. I've been busy this year developing my own game content and I'm planning on having my own mod released by this time next year, actually looking really forward to seeing how it comes out. So as you can see I'm pretty busy with my time and waiting really doesn't bother me.
One day Stardock will turn around and say "hey, there's some customers over there we've been ignoring" and on that day Stardock will make a shedload of extra cash.
I suspect that will be on the same day that Valve starts selling it's products on Impulse. It works both ways, you know.
And yes, there are some games on Steam only that I refuse to buy for that reason. Dawn of War 2 comes to mind. (available in shops but you have to use steam anyway. It's a DRM thing.) I guess I'll just have to live without fattening their wallets by x tiny percentage.
lol don't worry about DOW2. It's mega crap. Stick to DOW 1 series and you'll do ok
It would be nice, but not practical, if games were more like mp3s. DRM free and available via physical or digital release, and you could use whatever service/community you wanted to organize your games, get achievements, etc. For now, I just see dozens of more stores coming out over the yeras, all with their own DRM schemes and different requirements for when their client/installer is used, patches that don't work with each other. etc, etc. It will be a mess for awhile. I don't see any reason to hand-cuffed to just one of them at this point, but I understand people wanting to stick to their preferred service provider, regardless of which that is.
I'm just going to step in here and put the issue to rest.
Sins of a Solar Empire will never be on Steam.
Happy Holidays folks. Hope everyone has a good break
YEAH, but why are Mp3's like that and not games? because game developers acutally put effort into making games, while most music modern music could be snap-frozen, sold at stores and put in the microwave ready-to-eat if you get my drift =P
True about modern music but there's alot of hard work gone into those classics. They can take years to make just like games.
Stardock: it's money at the end of the day, so eventually you will because theres millions of customers on OTHER services (not just steam) that are only willing to buy your product through their own digital store.
@avp2501- Zoomba, a dread moderator of Stardock, has SPOKEN!!!!! He has already said that Sins of a Solar Empire (and by implicition, the expansions) will NEVER be on Steam.
CEASE AND DESIST HERETIC PROPENENT OF VILE MEMORY HOG STEAM!!!!
(I would probably use Steam if I had a Source-engine game. But then again, there are SO MANY OTHER CHOICES! Steam loses! Impulse FTW!!!)
I think you might be enjoying too much of your namesake Whiskey144.
Let's start placing bets:
1. Which will happen first, Sins on Steam, hell freezing over, pigs flying, or armagedon? My money is on hell freezing over.
2. How long will this thread be dead (again) before it gets necroed (again) by the OP in the horribly misguided idea that Sins will ever come to Steam? I'm going to go with... 5 months after it dies (again) it will rise from the dead (again)
I'll probably keep asking every 6 months so yeah.
1.Sins on steam within 10 years for £2.99 + all expansions - thanks in advance for the bargain
2. Armaggedon
3. Pigs flying - wouldn't surprize me with all the crap that we feed them.
4. Hell freezing doesn't count since it's a fictional place.
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