Comments on: The new Battle.Net http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet The professional blog of Anthony Salter, game programmer. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Handshakes http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet/comment-page-1#comment-2113 Handshakes Fri, 08 May 2009 14:57:18 +0000 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/?p=971#comment-2113 Oh, by the bye: They just had a $10 weekend for Orange Box. TEN DOLLARS for Episode 1 (meh), Episode 2 (slightly less meh), Portal (neat), and TF2 (wowwy). Oh, by the bye: They just had a $10 weekend for Orange Box. TEN DOLLARS for Episode 1 (meh), Episode 2 (slightly less meh), Portal (neat), and TF2 (wowwy).

]]> By: Handshakes http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet/comment-page-1#comment-2112 Handshakes Fri, 08 May 2009 14:55:51 +0000 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/?p=971#comment-2112 Well I guess I didn't know about the different prices in different parts of the world thing, but for instance: When I bought Orange Box on pre-order it had (I think) a 20% off deal for $40 which was beautiful. When I bought L4D about 3 weeks out from release it had an I-don't-even-know-the-%-off deal and I paid $37 for it, equally beautiful. I got UT3 for a measley 20 smackers when it wasn't too old yet. And, of course, I have to mention Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines which I picked up for $20 a couple years ago on a special Halloween deal and it turned out to be the best RPG I've ever played. So yeah, Steam definitely has the deals. In the USA at least, you can fairly reliably find brand spanking new games at 10% off. Battlenet, on the other hand, wants me to pay 20 clams for a 7 year old game that I was never really in love with. If you ask me a game that old is better suited for the $5-$10 range. But then I am just bitter that I lost my old disc. Now I am going to go back to playing Wolfenstein 3D which I picked up for 5 bucks on Steam. Well I guess I didn’t know about the different prices in different parts of the world thing, but for instance: When I bought Orange Box on pre-order it had (I think) a 20% off deal for $40 which was beautiful. When I bought L4D about 3 weeks out from release it had an I-don’t-even-know-the-%-off deal and I paid $37 for it, equally beautiful. I got UT3 for a measley 20 smackers when it wasn’t too old yet. And, of course, I have to mention Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines which I picked up for $20 a couple years ago on a special Halloween deal and it turned out to be the best RPG I’ve ever played.

So yeah, Steam definitely has the deals. In the USA at least, you can fairly reliably find brand spanking new games at 10% off. Battlenet, on the other hand, wants me to pay 20 clams for a 7 year old game that I was never really in love with. If you ask me a game that old is better suited for the $5-$10 range.

But then I am just bitter that I lost my old disc. Now I am going to go back to playing Wolfenstein 3D which I picked up for 5 bucks on Steam.

]]> By: Sol_HSA http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet/comment-page-1#comment-2111 Sol_HSA Fri, 08 May 2009 05:06:55 +0000 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/?p=971#comment-2111 Steam has reasonable prices? In what part of the world? Let's take an obvious pick - orange box. They made it, they sell it. In steam, 29,99 eur. If I order it online from play.com, 19,49 eur. Some time back the prices were all in dollars, but there was a sales tax on top of that if you bought from europe. Back then the prices were tolerable. Then they did a currency conversion of 1=1, after which the only sane prices have been the weekend deals. Steam has reasonable prices? In what part of the world?

Let’s take an obvious pick – orange box. They made it, they sell it. In steam, 29,99 eur. If I order it online from play.com, 19,49 eur.

Some time back the prices were all in dollars, but there was a sales tax on top of that if you bought from europe. Back then the prices were tolerable. Then they did a currency conversion of 1=1, after which the only sane prices have been the weekend deals.

]]> By: Handshakes http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet/comment-page-1#comment-2110 Handshakes Thu, 07 May 2009 18:47:12 +0000 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/?p=971#comment-2110 Oh, by the bye, the Battle.net store does offer some digitally distributed games. I know because I checked to get my Warcraft 3 back. So now the only thing that sets Battle.net apart from Steam is that Steam actually has reasonable prices, where Battle.net wants me to shell out 20 bucks for a digital copy of a 7 year old game. Oh, and all the nifty Steam features like the steam community and such. But seriously, 20 bucks for Frozen Throne... What is the world coming to? Oh, by the bye, the Battle.net store does offer some digitally distributed games. I know because I checked to get my Warcraft 3 back. So now the only thing that sets Battle.net apart from Steam is that Steam actually has reasonable prices, where Battle.net wants me to shell out 20 bucks for a digital copy of a 7 year old game.

Oh, and all the nifty Steam features like the steam community and such.

But seriously, 20 bucks for Frozen Throne… What is the world coming to?

]]> By: Handshakes http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet/comment-page-1#comment-2109 Handshakes Thu, 07 May 2009 18:42:52 +0000 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/?p=971#comment-2109 Went to register all my games just for the helluvit and - wouldn't you know it? - I lost my Warcraft 3 CD :(. Went to register all my games just for the helluvit and – wouldn’t you know it? – I lost my Warcraft 3 CD :( .

]]> By: Irwin1138 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/the-new-battlenet/comment-page-1#comment-2108 Irwin1138 Thu, 07 May 2009 15:10:51 +0000 http://www.viridiangames.com/blog/?p=971#comment-2108 This is really cool! Let's hope they will actually roll out their older games, especially Diablo 1. This is really cool! Let’s hope they will actually roll out their older games, especially Diablo 1.

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