A challenger appears! WeGame Hopes To Take On Steam With Online Game Store
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hahaha
Not a chance.
WeGame got bad after they started charging for everything.
I don't expect to use this.
too little too late.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;26577070]When stuff like this happens it really makes me realize how steam has this whole "market" by the balls.[/QUOTE]
Funny... you know who had the graphics card market by the balls long time ago? A company called 3dfx, who ended up obliterated by some new company called Nvidia and their "GeForce" chipset...
Food for thought.
If they $ =/= € Then I will use wegame to buy all my games. Otherwise no!
Steam pretty much is the downloadable pc gaming market
And other than that there against direct to drive games for windows live among others
More online stores? Heck yea!
More online communities tied to said stores? Fuk no. :(
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;26576042]I've always wondered though....
If Steam was to ever go away, as with any digital distribution network, what would happen to our games that we've bought over the years?
Would our library of games and all of our money we put into it be instantly vaporised into [B]NOTHINGNESS[/B]?
If so, fuck ANY competition for the sake of keeping our games :gonk:[/QUOTE]
As long as we would have a Steam client, the software will be usable.
haha ahaha
STEAM IS DEAD ALL HAIL WeGAME
^perfect example
What a bad forum to suggest this too, half the people here are obsessed with their shitty steam.
I think it would make more sense if they sold indie titles exclusively.
Steam is not bad, it's just a bunch of competitors that are mad their product sucks in comparison.
As far as the actual client is concerned, I disagree.
I believe it's slow and sometimes clunky even on good hardware.
[QUOTE=n0cturni;26578238]As far as the actual client is concerned, I disagree.
I believe it's slow and sometimes clunky even on good hardware.[/QUOTE]
Get better hardware.
haha, like they could beat motherfucking valve...haha
No way this will work.
Too many publishers have already gone with steam.
Meaning 90% of retail games require Steam
[QUOTE=postmanX3;26575857]Honestly, why do people even bother trying to compete with the monster that is Steam?[/QUOTE]
I for one welcome our Gabe Newell overlord.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;26577200]Funny... you know who had the graphics card market by the balls long time ago? A company called 3dfx, who ended up obliterated by some new company called Nvidia and their "GeForce" chipset...
Food for thought.[/QUOTE]
But they introduced new technology, items which would actually improve computing in a measurable way.
How can Wegame improve on steam? There isn't a whole lot they can do, except not offer fucking TF2 hats with every single purchase.
[QUOTE=BagMinge104;26574820]Inb4 Valve creates their own easy-to-use capture software and run them out of the market.[/QUOTE]
More like fix source recorder.
The corrupted files it puts out are cute, but don't match my directorial style.
Sure, Valve pretty much runs the Digital Download market, but they aren't dicks about it. They charge as fairly as possible and they have such ridiculous sales it's hard not to refuse to give them money. Then there's the convenience of being able to download and play your games right off the bat instead of having to go out and buy a retail copy, or ordering a retail copy online and waiting for it to be delivered, or even having to look for the place you put your retail copy when you feel like reinstalling.
Sure competition is good, but the way Steam is run now, I would be fine if it were the only way to get any PC game ever.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;26579767]But they introduced new technology, items which would actually improve computing in a measurable way.
How can Wegame improve on steam? There isn't a whole lot they can do, except not offer fucking TF2 hats with every single purchase.[/QUOTE]
agreed
I don't think this'll work, unless they provide mainly indie games or something. More popular services are already available (Impulse, Direct2Drive) and are still just filling space in steam's shadow. I'm all for competition and against monopolies and all, but steam is pretty much the online game store.
[QUOTE=Xenomoose;26579922]Sure, Valve pretty much runs the Digital Download market, but they aren't dicks about it. They charge as fairly as possible and they have such ridiculous sales it's hard not to refuse to give them money. Then there's the convenience of being able to download and play your games right off the bat instead of having to go out and buy a retail copy, or ordering a retail copy online and waiting for it to be delivered, or even having to look for the place you put your retail copy when you feel like reinstalling.
Sure competition is good, but the way Steam is run now, I would be fine if it were the only way to get any PC game ever.[/QUOTE]
and as soon as they change PEOPLE WILL get mad
Steam has never wronged me. I shall stay with it until it dies.
So can we buy games from them even if they require steam to run? I'm looking for a way to buy COD:BLOPS but I can't find how to buy games on their website.
They need to change their layout before they will get any more customers.
Like everyone's been saying, competition is good. I always check out D2D before making a purchase on Steam, saved me quite a bit on blops for that.
What I care about is if this service is a full client based system (DRM, Community, etc) a la Steam, or merely a web powered one like D2D (Storefront, possibly auto-updates). I can see the latter competing very well against Steam.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;26579767]But they introduced new technology, items which would actually improve computing in a measurable way.
How can Wegame improve on steam? There isn't a whole lot they can do, except not offer fucking TF2 hats with every single purchase.[/QUOTE]
Well that's my point, give them some time and I'm sure they'll come up with a competitive business model over time, which will turn beneficial for all of us ;D
[editline]9th December 2010[/editline]
Besides... it'd be nice to see somebody giving Steam a run for its money
Porsche didn't name themselves 'WeDrive'.
WeGame shows a lack of innovation just in its name. Steam might have the market by the balls, but if someone can create a more elegant and innovative platform, then they have a chance of competing. The Valve/Steam relationship is that they were developing games first, and selling them second. That gives them a unique insight into how things work. You can't just get a business degree and decide you want to open online game sales, you have to a foot in the door of the community.
Steam doesn't need their name to tell you what they do.
Competition is always good. I doubt it'll ever top steam since valve already prices their games as if they were already in tight competition, but best of luck to WeGame!
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