Judaeus Apella on 13/5/2007 at 01:46
Yeah... I don't like certain things about Steam... but they ARE bringing back some classic kick ass games I’m talking about the three related classics that are the last in their own series, Thief 3, Deus Ex 2, and SS2. Two down, one to go! (Hopefully)
You guys think it'll happen?
Why? Why not? If so, how much work would it take to make it compatible with steam and its multiplayer features?
I think it SHOULD be brought to Steam! (hopefully at a decent price)
It would introduce the new generation of gamers to a game from our generation that helped pave the way for newer titles today, by setting new standards. The psychological way the game pulls players into the experience is genius, and I believe this would inspire those in the modding community.
It might even rekindle someone to upgrade this mod somehow and polish it up a little. Hey it could happen, you never know. :)
ZylonBane on 13/5/2007 at 02:12
Quote Posted by Judaeus Apella
It might even rekindle someone to upgrade this mod somehow and polish it up a little.
Ummm... what mod? And why would setting someone on fire be a good thing?
Drat on 13/5/2007 at 02:15
I don't think it will. EA own the rights to Shock 2, and will never give them up. I don't know if any other EA games have been released on Steam.
Judaeus Apella on 13/5/2007 at 02:23
I don't think EA would have to give up the rights to anything. Wouldn't they make money from this? I thought thats how it worked. I don't think Anyone sold the rights to Deus Ex 2 or Thief 3, when they where brought to steam. I don't think thats how it works.
Muzman on 13/5/2007 at 02:24
And judging by the Eidos experience, no one will be arsed making it run more reliably on recent systems so it'll get shelved even if, say some mythical System Shock 3 were to end up on steam.
(More likely EA are racing their own distribution system into beta, or will once steam looks like turning a profit)
Vpoz_RUS on 13/5/2007 at 02:49
Steam proubably will never have the shock series becuase EA has the rights. And since EA are a bunch of fat ass rich pigs that are greedy, they proubably won't sell there rights to a company that they are competeing with because (1 it will support valves software, like steam and (2 it doesn't really make sense for EA to use Steam to advertise and sell there games when they can easily do that by themselves. The major problem is though that there isn't enough demand to bring back the Shock series so EA isn't really intrested in the Idea of a rerelease of a classic game and truely they aren't even that intrested in SS3 as the Ken Levine stated "EA doesn't give a shit about the series..." and plus they gave the project to the team that made the godfather game so that can't be good:tsktsk:
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JossiRossi on 13/5/2007 at 03:04
EA doesn't need to sell the rights to the game to have it be able to sell it on Steam. They can just make a deal with Valve about how the profits would be divided.
Vpoz_RUS on 13/5/2007 at 03:15
but why do they need to divide the profits when they can keep all the money by distributing the game themselves.
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BloodKite on 13/5/2007 at 03:20
The only reason I would want it on steam is so that I can play coop. I can't get it to work right, even with hamachi. Maybe with steam it would be nice and easy.
Other than that steam sucks. I can create servers for any source game, and Valve hasn't gotten around to fixing that error for months now.
JediKorenchkin on 13/5/2007 at 03:28
Yeah, let's avoid turning this into another "Steam sucks" thread.
I think it would be cool to see it on there just to, as said, get it to a wider audience. I'm not sure most people who played it would appreciate it though.
