Half-Life's Steamy Future [Sep 07, 2003, 1:14 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post on Planet Half-Life
(thanks Frans) reproduces some quotes from Valve's Erik Johnson posted to a Steam
forum thread discussing the role of Steam in the future of Half-Life. Here
are the excerpts:
There will no longer be a WonID system, it will be replaced by the SteamID system.
When we convert the userbase to Steam, a single WonID will be valid for all of the products.
If you're purchased a product from us at retail, you're going to have access to all of our products via Steam.
No, you do not have to pay for Steam.
That is correct, you'll have to have Steam installed to play the most current version of Half-Life.
wow i hope they don't start a trend by selling the multiplayer portion of the game as an extra
The single player-only version will probably be cheaper than a regular PC game. It actually makes a lot of sense to sell a single player-only version because what a lot of hardcore gamers don't realize is that 90% of people who buy an FPS buy it for the single player component only. Look at the sales of games like JK2 or ST:EF2 versus the number of players/servers online. Then look at the sales of The Sims, which has no multiplayer component.
edit: screwed up my italics thing
This comment was edited on Sep 8, 12:18.
The single player-only version will probably be cheaper than a regular PC game. It actually makes a lot of sense to sell a single player-only version because what a lot of hardcore gamers don't realize is that 90% of people who buy an FPS buy it for the single player component only. Look at the sales of games like JK2 or ST:EF2 versus the number of players/servers online. Then look at the sales of The Sims, which has no multiplayer component.
edit: screwed up my italics thing
This comment was edited on Sep 8, 12:18.
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