Direct2Drive, Impulse, and Gamersgate will not Sell MW2 for the PC because of Steam - Polidicks

[url]http://kotaku.com/5398259/online-retailers-refusing-to-sell-modern-warfare-2[/url] [quote]Major online retailer Direct2Drive have announced today that the year's biggest game - Modern Warfare 2 - won't be made available on their PC digital delivery service. Why? Because of rival platform Steam, of course! Activision's shooter includes mandatory installation of Valve's Steamworks, which the game uses for stuff like installation, DRM and save-game management. Something Direct2Drive (which is owned by website IGN) are having none of, telling us "We don't believe games should force the user to install a Trojan Horse". That "Trojan Horse" being the inclusion of Steam's commercial marketplace. D2D also told Kotaku that, having evaluated some Steamworks titles earlier in the year (such as Empire: Total War and Dawn of War II) and finding the forced inclusion of Steam's storefront (offering automatic competition to D2D's own services) not to their liking, told publishers that they'd stop selling games bundled in such a manner until Valve "decoupled its retail marketplace" from Steam's other services. To be clear, D2D's beef is not with Activision, it's with Steam, and to prove there's no bad blood between the retailer and mega-publisher, $5 coupons will soon be offered on select Activision titles to make up for it. UPDATE - Seems Impulse have come out today and also confirmed they won't be stocking the game, for the same reasons. UPDATE 2 - Digital store Gamersgate have told Kotaku that, like D2D and Impulse, they will also not be stocking Modern Warfare 2, and again, for the same reason.[/quote]

Eh, I get what they're saying.

Who cares? D2D is shit and I don't know anyone who uses it. Everyone I know who purchases copies of games from an online marketplace uses Steam or Xbox Live, and everyone else buys their shit from a store like normal people.

Steam is a trojan horse :tinfoil:

Heh, Steam is awesome.

[QUOTE=igamiwarr;18217516]Steam is a trojan horse :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] Yeah, that bit floored me. Just because it's a competing service doesn't mean you can slander it like that. I mean, yeah, I hate Steam just as much as the next guy. It's slow, bloated, horrible-looking, and I hate being forced to run superfluous shit just to play the games I bought. But you have to deal with it if you like any of Valve's games, and its advantages completely outweigh its few minor negative aspects, so I think calling it a 'trojan horse' is a bit extreme.

There are better reasons to boycott MW2, but anything that lowers IW/Activision's profits is a good thing.

[QUOTE=J Paul;18217540] I mean, yeah, I hate Steam just as much as the next guy. It's slow, bloated, horrible-looking, and I hate being forced to run superfluous shit just to play the games I bought.[/QUOTE] Steam is a great service.

I only purchase my games on Steam, at least Digitally. But I do understand where they're coming from, and it makes sense for them not to.

Steam is great, makes things more organized and easy flowing.

[QUOTE=Wii60;18217550]Steam is a great service.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I agree, read the sentence after that. I just don't like the program itself; the service and the concept are both awesome. And I also went on to state that those few minor inconveniences are totally outweighed by the positive aspects of Steam.

this isn't doing anything but hurting their own numbers

oh wow trojan horse.. Sue them for false advertising :clint:

I love Steam.

Proof that Steam is slowly taking over PC gaming.

[QUOTE=lockdown6;18217590]Not really?[/QUOTE] It's slower than I believe it ought to be. It's a glorified online store. It might be faster nowadays, I don't know if it's been substantially updated. I haven't played a game on Steam or even launched Steam itself in months, maybe even close to a year. [QUOTE=lockdown6;18217590]Not really?[/QUOTE] It's more bloated than I believe it ought to be. It's a glorified online store. Again, this may have changed since I last ran the program. [QUOTE=lockdown6;18217590]You can always use custom skins.[/QUOTE] I shouldn't have to use a skin. I feel the same way about Steam as I do about the Windows version of iTunes: It should look like every other program made for Windows. It just doesn't fit in. I understand that this is totally up to preference. [QUOTE=lockdown6;18217590]Doesn't bother me?[/QUOTE] I respect your opinion, however, I feel differently. It does bother me. I feel that I shouldn't have to use it at all. I feel that once I have purchased a game, I should be able to run it without running any extraneous processes. People, I think we're going to get off-topic here if this continues. I thought I already made it clear that these are only very minor complaints and that my overall opinion of Steam is positive. It's a wonderful service and has revolutionized the digital distribution of games. However, there are certain aspects of the program itself that I dislike, but these complaints are not nearly enough to keep me from using the product.

D2D is shit, whatever game you download from there uses some shitty digital version that isn't compatible with most mods because the D2D staff is retarded and quits uploading up to date versions of the game a month after it's released. My copy of Oblivion is basically useless because I can't install that Oblivion Script Extender mod which means I can't install most of the good mods made for the game, which means I've been screwed over.

Kay. I'm sure valve, doesn't give a shit. It's more customers for them right?

The only people that call Steam a trojan or virus or whatever are the same idiots that think if you have their computer is connected to the internet a hacker will hack into their computer and steal all their personal information and money. There's loads of retards like that on the Empire: total war forums, it makes me rage when I go on those forums. They also think: that Steam is a company, that the people that work on Steam have access to every part of your computer, that it requiring a internet connection to operate is horrifying, that it's too complicated to use.

Their loss.

Jealousy of course :smug:.

[QUOTE=tankkiller;18217957]The only people that call Steam a trojan or virus or whatever are the same idiots that think if you have their computer is connected to the internet a hacker will hack into their computer and steal all their personal information, money, [B]break their computer and rape their daughter[/B]. There's loads of retards like that on the Empire: total war forums, it makes me rage when I go on those forums. They also think: that Steam is a company, that the people that work on Steam have access to every part of your computer, that it requiring a internet connection to operate is horrifying, that it's too complicated to use.[/QUOTE] Fix'd

Yea. It's a good thing though. Unline D2D games, steam downloads actually work and steam is a stable website. Most thing you buy on D2D require a week of dealing with customer support just so you can download them, then another week to [B]hopefully[/B] get it to work. Course then again, no one should be buying MW2 anyway because of all these bullshit things IW is doing with it if they want any future in PC gaming.

[QUOTE=J Paul;18217540]Yeah, that bit floored me. Just because it's a competing service doesn't mean you can slander it like that. I mean, yeah, I hate Steam just as much as the next guy. It's slow, bloated, horrible-looking, and I hate being forced to run superfluous shit just to play the games I bought. But you have to deal with it if you like any of Valve's games, and its advantages completely outweigh its few minor negative aspects, so I think calling it a 'trojan horse' is a bit extreme.[/QUOTE] Oh hell naw.

[i] ... meanwhile, word reached Valve HQ, to which to the marketing director retorts [/i] [i] "What the hell is Direct2Drive?" [/i]

[QUOTE=Linelor;18218100]Yea. It's a good thing though. Unline D2D games, steam downloads actually work and steam is a stable website. Most thing you buy on D2D require a week of dealing with customer support just so you can download them, then another week to [B]hopefully[/B] get it to work. Course then again, no one should be buying MW2 anyway because of all these bullshit things IW is doing with it if they want any future in PC gaming.[/QUOTE] You should check your system specs before buying stuff since everything I've got off D2D works perfectly fine.

Bought 2 games a while back, had well over recommended for both of them. One wouldn't download period, their link was broken. Took a week of talking to them before they finally fixed it. Then the other one, the download worked, I got it downloaded and it wouldn't install right because it thought it had already been installed or some bullshit. It's just fucking retarded, stick to steam.

[QUOTE=markg06;18218157]You should check your system specs before buying stuff since everything I've got off D2D works perfectly fine.[/QUOTE] He wasn't talking about that idiot, he was talking about how the D2D version of games are retarded and are usually broken and won't work.

Steam is the only thing holding EA down by it's head... other than EA itself. Go Steam! Steam's also never been a problem for me, other than when it first came around

Only reason I use D2D is to buy a game that isn't on Steam.