Prey now available on Steam

[crunchy superman]

I don't personally care for Steam, but this is still a good move for 3DR & HH.

[Mountain Man]

Originally Posted by X-Vector

As a reminder, here's Scott Miller's take on things six months ago...

He says he'd taken a hard look at Steam, but he gets some critical things wrong. Namely:

Originally Posted by Scott Miller

o We've taken a hard look at Steam's [anti-piracy] method and have improved them, making them more customer-friendly.

I'm not sure how anything could be more customer-friendly than Steam. It just sits in your system tray and quietly does its thing without bothering the user. Not to mention, buying a game over Steam is simplicity itself. It really doesn't get more customer-friendly than that.

Originally Posted by Scott Miller

o Triton will not blitz players with marketing and ads like Steam does.

Steam doesn't blitz the player with ads, either. Simply disable product announcements in the preferences and Steam essentially becomes a stealth program.

It seems to me that Scott has just been looking for excuses to hate Steam--even if those excuses are bogus (see above)--for no other reason than it's owned and run by one of 3DR's competitors. There's also the fact that he's implied at other times that he'd love Steam if it was independent from Valve, so we really need to take his whining with a grain of salt.

In the end, though, I think he recognizes that Steam is digital distribution done right, even if it is owned by Valve.

[Altered Reality]

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

2) If you buy it in the store, there's no need to connect to Steam UNLESS YOU WANT TO. Assuming there are further patches, I presume they'll be made available in a standalone form like the other two have been.

I hope to hear an official statement from 2K soon on this.

[dlink]

Originally Posted by Gryph

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php

I thought Scott didn't like Steam.

Good news is that all retail purchases can be validated in Steam! Hooray for Steam!

Lol i was thinking exactly the same when i saw it on steampowered .
Well this is good new imo, i love steam and now more players can see how cool Prey is! I'm gonna validate my game as soon as possible!

[X-Vector]

Originally Posted by Mountain Man

In the end, though, I think he recognizes that Steam is digital distribution done right, even if it is owned by Valve.

My take is that there simply is no valid alternative at the moment, although I wonder what happened to the company to rise out of Triton's ashes that he mentions in the GS interview.

In the end, it's just the money talking, both in the earlier decision to go with a small unproven "dead man walking" company and the recent turnabout towards the 'despicable' Steam platform.

[Mountain Man]

Originally Posted by X-Vector

...although I wonder what happened to the company to rise out of Triton's ashes that he mentions in the GS interview.

That company's probably still a good 6 to 12 months away, I would imagine. 3DR/2K Games needed a solution now.

[swf5002]

It's 9:00 AM EST, does anyone know when they're going to allow the validation of the keys? I bought this game on Triton about a day or two before the system went under and the download was corrupt, so I've been waiting about two months to play a game I bought in early October, and I can't take it much longer!

[wien]

Originally Posted by Roger

If someone bought it online, they knew what risk they were taking.

Oh did we? I've been told nothing other than "there is no risk".

I was actually quite apprehensive about buying through Triton, because I just don't like being dependent on some company to be able to use the stuff I've already bought from them. Therefore I asked a question in the Triton thread on this very forum about what would happen if Triton went belly up. As a response I was told that that would never be a problem, and a patch removing the Triton dependency would be released on the off chance that it would. (Granted, no one from 3DR or Triton said that, but they sure as hell didn't deny it either. The patch has also been promised by Royal since then.) And, as the stupid man I am, I believed it and threw away my money.

Now, here we are, not really all that much later, and what has happened? I have a multi GB binary blob on my hard drive titled Prey that I can't use, there is no patch removing Triton from it, I have been promised a hard copy which, well over a month later, only a handful of people seem to have recieved, and now I'm starting to think I have no choice but to put my copy of Prey in the hands of Valve and their ever changing, retroactive License agreement if I ever want to play it again. You can understand my happiness with that prospect as "there is no risk" with Steam either.

Originally Posted by Roger

They got lucky with this deal because otherwise they'd have paid upwards to $60 for a game they could never play.

Yeah, lucky me...

[Orochi Avlis]

I just find it amusing at all the armchair businessmen/developers in this thread condeming Scott for his decision. I know I'm one to talk, but let see how you would handle a situation where your million dollar investment ends up hitting a brick wall.

Scott doesn't like how it went to Steam, but he has to swallow his pride for what's best for his investment and business.
In no way does it affect people who bought the physical copy. Get over it.

EDIT: Fixed grammar

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by Orochi Avlis

I just find it amusing at all the armchair businessmen/developers in this thread condeming Scott from his decision. I know I'm one to talk, but let see how you would handle a situtation where your million dollar investment ends up hitting a brick wall.

Scott doesn't like how it went to Steam, but he has to swallow his pride for what's best for his investment and business.
In no way does it affect people who bought the physical copy. Get over it.

Welcome to my world.

Anyway, this is honestly not a big deal. Triton went bankrupt, we needed a solution, Steam was it now. This doesn't in any way affect anyone who bought a boxed copy - anyone who implies that it does is just trying to create FUD - that's unnecessary.

P.S. I will NOT allow this to become another Steam Sucks thread. If you try and take it there be warned, your posts will be removed - that is NOT what this thread is about.

[napoleon]

I think that the move of Prey to Steam is basically orgasmic. I have been a fan of steam since the day I bough Half Life, and I was skeptical at first of Steam selling games not produced by valvE or by their close affiliates, but I see that they are selling some nice game (ie Prey), too. I think that this is, over all, a great move for both Steam and for HH and 3dr. But thats just my opinion, now for some dopefish!



gad, that guy is amazing! Some great memories there!

[SyntaxN]

Sum of all this: 3dr is now Valve´s b*tch
DNF exclusive for Steam here we go...

[FireFly]

How do we know Scott has changed his mind on Steam? At the moment there is no other option for digital distribution. How can he be accused of hypocrisy when he never said that it would be preferable not to digitally distribute if Steam was the only option?

And for those that want to believe that he hated Steam all along, consider:

"Steam may be the most important event for independent developers in the last five years. Independent developers should look hard into the option of using Steam. Valve has poured $10 to $15 million into R&D and making Steam work, and I'm impressed with how well it worked with the release of HL2, despite a few glitches."

http://dukenukem.typepad.com/game_ma...snt_get_a.html

[Kalki]

Originally Posted by SyntaxN

DNF exclusive for Steam here we go...

Can we start preloading now? Where's that wood texture??

[Altered Reality]

Originally Posted by SyntaxN

Sum of all this: 3dr is now Valve´s b*tch
DNF exclusive for Steam here we go...

If that's true, I will NOT buy DNF. As I've lived my whole life without DNF, I can live the rest of my life without DNF.

[ZaphodB]

Time is 1:35pm EST - Prey available on Steam in 3h 25m.

[Gabrobot]

I don't see the problem here...if anything this just shows Scott's dedication to customers to make sure they aren't screwed despite his own personal feelings about Steam. And as Firefly pointed out, he's personally very much in favor of digital distribution, including Steam, but is reluctant to have Steam as his first choice. I think the reason he talks so much about what he doesn't like about Steam is because he wants those issues to be addressed, because then it would be an excellent first choice for them.

[NutWrench]

Hmpf. Steam says my product key isn't valid.
(Prey, limited collectors edition. 18 digit key.)

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by NutWrench

Hmpf. Steam says my product key isn't valid.
(Prey, limited collectors edition. 18 digit key.)

It's not up yet. Look at front page of steampowered.com.

BTW, my keys didn't work, either.

[NutWrench]

Oh ok. thanks!

[Kristian Joensen]

Perhaps because Prey isn't available yet. My steam(which I got because of this) is counting down until it is available, 2 hours 30 minutes to go.

Edit:

Looks like Joe beat me to it.

[TonicBH]

I personally think this might get some better exposure to the game, what with Steam being a popular service. I don't think many would've heard of games like Darwinia, DEFCON or Red Orchestra without Steam.

I have been a strong supporter of Steam, even if I'm not quite ready to plunge into the digital distribution thing yet. There's just something about a box/case that makes you feel like you own a hard copy of the thing.

[Joe Siegler]

I've queried 2K about how this is all going to shake out - but I haven't heard back from them. The things I posted above are my assumptions based on what I know, I'm waiting on official word from 2K about whether what I said is true or not, although it likely is.

[ZuljinRaynor]

YES GOD DAMN IT! YES! YES YES YES YES YES! I am so happy.

Edit: Just uninstalled Prey in anticipation of the second coming.

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

I've queried 2K about how this is all going to shake out - but I haven't heard back from them. The things I posted above are my assumptions based on what I know, I'm waiting on official word from 2K about whether what I said is true or not, although it likely is.

OK, I've finally heard back from them. All of my points are correct. There isn't going to be a "formal press release" about it from 2K or Valve. I was told the countdown clock is it. I'll have a story about this on the main 3DR site shortly.

[Altered Reality]

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

OK, I've finally heard back from them. All of my points are correct. There isn't going to be a "formal press release" about it from 2K or Valve. I was told the countdown clock is it. I'll have a story about this on the main 3DR site shortly.

All's well that ends well.
I hope Prey 2 won't require a Steam activation for single player, though...

[napoleon]

So..........the countdown clock says 00:00:00 and im not seeing any way to activate Prey through steam......whats up with that? I was really looking forward to playing, but there is nothing (as far as I can see). Is this the same for everyone else, or am I just missing something?

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by napoleon

So..........the countdown clock says 00:00:00 and im not seeing any way to activate Prey through steam......whats up with that? I was really looking forward to playing, but there is nothing (as far as I can see). Is this the same for everyone else, or am I just missing something?

Because it's not 00:00. It's at 4PM Central time. Whic his about 15 minutes from the typing of this message.

[RP.]

The countdown clock says 00:13:00 at my comp.
I just checked and it depends on your computer time settings, so don't count on it, i've no idea at with time it should be out.

[ZuljinRaynor]

It's not taking my key. Yes I tried 5 times.

[Joe Siegler]

Originally Posted by ZuljinRaynor

It's not taking my key.

Took mine. If it doesn't take your key, I presume you'll have to go through Steam's support - as we're totally out of the loop on this. Heck, I didn't even know it was happening 24 hours ago.

[RP.]

Prey is now full available at steam!
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index....me&AppId=3970&
According to user over at STEAM forums, there are no problems registering thier keys so go ahead and give it a try!

[Kristian Joensen]

Woohoo I am now downloading Prey again.

[DoubleFudge]

steam is saying my product code is invalid. i copied and pasted right out of the email i got from triton.

anyone else having problems?

[Kristian Joensen]

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

Took mine. If it doesn't take your key, I presume you'll have to go through Steam's support - as we're totally out of the loop on this. Heck, I didn't even know it was happening 24 hours ago.

Well when I clicked the "Activate product key on Steam" link it didn't work but once I tried doing fromt eh Prey page then it worked fine, maybe he is experiencing the same thing ?

Edit:

DoubleFudge maybe you too are experiencing that very same problem ?

[ShadeEX]

Yes you have to go to the prey page then click the

Click to register a product key
Prey

Enter the key and well you know the rest..
Mines at 4%

[ZaphodB]

I had to exit out of steam completely and then restart steam before it accepted my key. Gonna take me a while to d/l, but it will be worth it to put my CD's in a safe place.

[DoubleFudge]

fixed.

restarted steam and all is frickin' awesome now that prey is soon to be playable again.

edit:

yeah, i'd tried both the link on the prey page and directly thru steam and no luck. i got a little mad, closed steam, got the mail, fired steam back up and it worked.

thanks, tho

[ZuljinRaynor]

Originally Posted by Joe Siegler

Took mine. If it doesn't take your key, I presume you'll have to go through Steam's support - as we're totally out of the loop on this. Heck, I didn't even know it was happening 24 hours ago.

Had to restart steam and that's it.

My dl is going at ~1MB/s so I'll have it soon.

[Joe Siegler]

Story on the main 3dr site is up.

http://www.3drealms.com/news/2006/11..._on_steam.html