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DICE 2009: Valve View on DRM and Pirates
Posted @ 1:44 AM, February 19 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

Gabe Newell believes that the new way of entertainment is direct customer relationships, service orientation. Valve aims to touch their customers in some way every three weeks, not every three years when a new game is shipped.

Valve have observed the following:
  • 30-year old songs with a little service (Rock Band, Guitar Hero) generate huge profits
  • Pirates are ahead not just on price, but on service
  • DRM appears to increase, not decrease piracy
  • Privacy and transparency
  • Shrinking distance to customer empowers content creators
DRM decreases service value for customers which increases pirated copies of games because they look more appealing, so DRM is bad.

You can read the full keynote live blog on G4tv.com.
DICE 2009: Left 4 Dead Half-price Sale Saw 3000% Increase, Steam Holiday Sales Are a Success
Posted @ 1:00 AM, February 19 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

Last weekend's half-price sale of Left 4 Dead saw a 3000% increase in sales, beating their launch sales. Wow..

He also showed Steam Holiday Sales, look below:
  • 10% sale = 35% increase in sales (real dollars, not units shipped)
  • 25% sale = 245% increase in sales
  • 50% sale = 320% increase in sales
  • 75% sale = 1470% increase in sales
Valve Comics on The Way Created By ‘Meet the’ Video Team
Posted @ 12:50 AM, February 19 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

Gabe Newell mentioned today in the DICE 2009 Keynote that the "Meet the" Video team are working on Valve-created Comics, Stay tuned till we get more info about this.
New Steam Update Gives You the Ability to Specify Content Download Region
Posted @ 3:22 PM, February 4 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

A new Steam update has been released which let you choose the nearest content download region to you, so you get the fastest download speed possible. Check below for change list.
  • Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
  • Fixed a condition that would prevent Steam from automatically applying game updates until game launch
  • Fixed a bug preventing in-game status for 3rd party games
  • Fixed running a non-Steam shortcut not changing user status to in-game
  • Updated processor detection for "System Information" window and hardware survey
  • Detect Windows 7 correctly in the hardware survey/system info dialog
  • Fixed a bug affecting Dawn of War II beta participants in certain languages
  • Fixed a bug in the game overlay affecting some Dawn of War II beta participants who have the game overlay disabled
  • Fixed a rare case where Steam could prevent games from launching
  • Fix crash when right-clicking a text edit control with an input locale that is new with Vista
  • Updated German localization
  • Fixed some potential string truncation in non-English locales
  • Repaired layout of controls in Event announcement popup window
  • Additional network API warnings for Steamworks partners
Surf The Internet While In-Game – A New Steam Update
Posted @ 6:12 PM, January 14 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

A new Steam update has been released tonight, which gives you the ability to browse the internet while in game including web sites that use flash.
  • Updated game overlay web browser to support generic web browsing, including web sites that use flash
  • Fixed games list scrolling behavior with pageup/pagedown and mouse wheel
  • Fixed GTA4 backups not restoring correctly
  • Fixed several cases where matchmaking would not work in Left 4 Dead in using Cafe accounts
  • Changed Friends to be enabled for Cafe accounts
  • Removed 'view invites' dialog on startup, now clicking on a group/user invite toast will take you directly to the Community control page
  • Fixed guest passes not showing immediately in games list
  • Fixed case where a user would be told a guest pass had expired after they had bought the full game
  • Improved Steam Windows Service restart logic in serveral places
Screenshot below.
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EA Joins Europe on Steam
Posted @ 12:29 PM, December 22 2008, By: Hectic Glenn In Steam

Valve today announced Spore, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Mass Effect, Need for Speed Undercover and FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in most of Europe, the United States and Canada via Steam.

In the coming weeks, Mirror's Edge, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, and Dead Space, will be added to the catalogue of EA's titles available via Steam. Steam games.
Valve Are Aware of the Europe Prices Issue
Posted @ 6:47 PM, December 20 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games

SteamFriends had a chat with Valve's Mike D. about the the difference of pricing for the European Union. He said that they are aware of this issue and they are fixing it.
Yes, we agree that some of the prices for third party products are higher then what you can find locally but we are working to fix that.
I got a feeling that they'll fix this issue in the upcoming months, hopefully.
Weekend Deal: Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl Now Available for $4.99
Posted @ 4:07 PM, December 19 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl is now available for $4.99 this weekend only.
Awakening in the Zone, you are one such S.T.A.L.K.E.R., fighting for survival in this man-made Hell, while trying to discover the truth behind Chernobyl's sinister past and ominous future.
What the hell are you waiting for? GO BUY IT!
EA Joins Steam
Posted @ 3:48 PM, December 19 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games

Publisher Electronic Arts today officially joined Valve's Steam service today, with titles such as: Those titles above are available now to gamers in North America.
"EA is one of the industry's largest publishers," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "The EA titles coming to Steam this holiday include some this year's top PC titles."
"We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam -- a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry's most successful digital distribution services," said John Pleasants, President, Global Publishing & Chief Operating Officer.
That's not all, more titles are coming soon on Steam like: Mirror's Edge , Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, and Dead Space. Why don't you visit EA's page on Steam for more info?
Euro and Sterling Now Available
Posted @ 8:33 PM, December 17 2008, By: Evo In Steam

This is the word from the Steam News page.

Products on Steam are now priced using local currency in the United Kingdom (Pounds Sterling), and Europe (Euros). All other countries remain in United States Dollars.

That is all.
Spore is Coming to Steam?
Posted @ 12:36 PM, December 16 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games

We heard a rumor that EA's Spore is coming to Steam, a Software End User License Agreement for Spore has been found on Steam website, look here.

It's also rumored that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is coming to Steam as well.
Steam Hardware Survey: November 2008 Edition is Colorful
Posted @ 4:24 PM, December 12 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

Valve have updated the Steam Hardware Survey with new results and fancy charts.

Click here to see the new Survey.
Steam Client Update
Posted @ 2:09 AM, December 2 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam

There was a new Steam Client update last night, look below:
  • Fixed rare cases of missing desktop shortcuts, Game Explorer links and uninstall entries
  • Fixed a potential overlay crash in games that run ShellExecute with a very long command line
  • Fixed input for Asian languages
Restart Steam, Get update.

P.S Glad to be back
Left 4 Dead and Steam Updates
Posted @ 12:37 AM, November 15 2008, By: Munro In Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Steam

Updates to Left 4 Dead Demo and Steam have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Left 4 Dead Demo
  • Added the ability to tie game servers to Steam Community groups. Group administrators can now see the GroupID on the group's administrative page, which can be used as the value for sv_steamgroup. Users that are in that group will then be able to browse directly to them from the main menu
  • Fixed setinfo exploit
  • Fixed a crash when exiting the game
  • Fixed a few cases where the game would crash when using ALT-TAB
  • Fixed a problem that could cause texture corruption on some ATI video cards
  • Fixed a bug that could cause infected horde to disappear
Half-Life 1 Engine
  • Fixed crash caused by specially crafted connect string
Steam Client
  • Improved GFW integration for titles that support it
Steam Client Update Released
Posted @ 1:56 PM, November 14 2008, By: Munro In Steam

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client
  • Improved startup time  
  • Added support for upcoming Left 4 Dead server groups feature  
  • Improved behavior of Steam if a game it launched crashes  
  • Updated localization for various languages  
  • Added error messages for some rare but confusing cases in the install wizard  
  • Fixed cybercafe's having trouble finding games in Left 4 Dead  
  • Fixed bug that caused the UI to not pop-up the achievement notification  
  • Fixed memory leak in the HTML control  
  • Fixed the in-game overlay to work in Vista when playing Fallout 3  
  • Fixed losing mouse input to the menu in Sacred 2 after using the game overlay  
  • Fixed a case where the game overlay could get stuck up while in-game  
  • Fixed a case where the game overlay could cause a game crash after alt-tab
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