[Kotaku] Steam To Offer In-Game Downloadable Content

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Admiral Mudkipz

Discussion Starter · Mar 17, 2009

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Valve have today announced that Steam - which already takes care of most other in-game needs for the PC market - will now be offering in-game downloadable content procurement as well.

What does this mean? You'll be able to get the DLC from the same program you're launching and managing the main game from, instead of fishing around somewhere else for it. Just fire up the game, hit shift-tab and you can shop to your heart's content.

Convenient? Yes. Just don't be surprised if that convenience comes at a cost when you find in six months that map packs PC gamers used to get for free suddenly are not free.

The first game to take advantage of in-game DLC will be The Maw, but since the feature can be accessed from any game - old or new, purchased from Steam or from retail - it certainly won't be the last.

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DarkNite

· #2 · Mar 17, 2009

I dont wanna pay for maps

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Puckbandit35

· #3 · Mar 17, 2009

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I dont wanna pay for maps

You won't be. Atleast not for Valve games.

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OmegaNemesis28

· #4 · Mar 17, 2009

this is GOOD
NOT bad

AKA - you do not need to pay for say Fallout DLC via Windows Live ONLY (its still possible they may not do it, but just an example)

murderbymodem

· #5 · Mar 17, 2009

Let it be known game devs, PC gamers will not pay for a map pack.

I was so mad when Infinity Ward was considering charging for the CoD4 map pack, luckily Nvidia stepped in and said no, PC gamers don't pay for maps, we'll pick up the tab you give them their maps for free in a patch

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Torched-Geek

· #6 · Mar 17, 2009

As I posted in the repost thread..

"We don't even have to pay for full prices for our games anymore if we're willing to wait for a while (which true Valvomaniacs aren't), I doubt Valve is going to charge us for in game content, what we have to remember is that Valve are offering a service to other companies, not just catering for themselves.

Valve's current model which they seemed to have latched onto is, release free content, drop prices massively, watch sales go through the roof. Develop new free content. Rinse. Repeat. I hope they keep to this model, it seems to be doing them well and for the gaming community it's great and from what I can see it's working well. Me and my friends are buying games we'd have never have bought otherwise and lots of other people seem to be doing so too. Most games even of Team Fortress 2's age won't expect any new serious sales, but Valve seem to be going out of their way to defy this."

TriplePlay

· #7 · Mar 17, 2009

I doubt that we will have to pay for much DLC, at least from many of the good devs like Valve. I'm SURE that Valve won't charge us for any DLC, we can be sure of that.

TheHoff

· #8 · Mar 17, 2009

I'm not paying for DLC. Plain and simple. I'll just live without it if I have to.

gtarmanrob

· #9 · Mar 17, 2009

hmm. honestly, i dont see how charging for map packs would work anyway, i mean, a map is simply a file and some textures and scripts etc... how could they possibly stop piracy of those.

they'd have to code the game to recognise some kind of allowance or unlock for said map packs, otherwise they will just get torrented and made available FOC anyway.

nugget

· #10 · Mar 17, 2009

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I'm not paying for DLC. Plain and simple. I'll just live without it if I have to.

Im with you man, taking an example from SF4 paying for a couple of costumes is freaking ludacris.

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OmegaNemesis28

· #11 · Mar 17, 2009

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I'm not paying for DLC. Plain and simple. I'll just live without it if I have to.

So lets say a game you really really like has an expansion pack in stores - you'd buy that?
But then a game you really really like has DLC that is like an expansion pack - you wouldn't buy it?

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curly haired boy

· #12 · Mar 17, 2009

sounds good.

this means better DLC support on steam, hopefully. as far as i know, Mirror's Edge on steam still doesn't have it available to buy. :S

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OmegaNemesis28

· #13 · Mar 17, 2009

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sounds good.

this means better DLC support on steam, hopefully. as far as i know, Mirror's Edge on steam still doesn't have it available to buy. :S

Don't think Mirror's Edge DLC is coming to PC.
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Unless its available only via Windows Live, then its not coming to PC as far as I'm aware. Everything says "the DLC comes out today for PC, PS3, and 360" but they never specify where on the PC. :-/

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nugget

· #14 · Mar 17, 2009

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So lets say a game you really really like has an expansion pack in stores - you'd buy that?
But then a game you really really like has DLC that is like an expansion pack - you wouldn't buy it?

If you compare the content to price ratio an expansion will have alot more content (generally).

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lokster

· #15 · Mar 17, 2009

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Let it be known game devs, PC gamers will not pay for a map pack.

I was so mad when Infinity Ward was considering charging for the CoD4 map pack, luckily Nvidia stepped in and said no, PC gamers don't pay for maps, we'll pick up the tab you give them their maps for free in a patch

Nvidia really did that???? wow. changed my view of nvidia

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hmm. honestly, i dont see how charging for map packs would work anyway, i mean, a map is simply a file and some textures and scripts etc... how could they possibly stop piracy of those.

they'd have to code the game to recognise some kind of allowance or unlock for said map packs, otherwise they will just get torrented and made available FOC anyway.

another reason to pirate and use torrents..

i wouldnt pay for a few extra maps, id rather help someone figure it out how mod

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Swiftes

· #16 · Mar 17, 2009

I think that it is a good positive step in the right direction. Go Steam!

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curly haired boy

· #17 · Mar 17, 2009

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Don't think Mirror's Edge DLC is coming to PC.
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Unless its available only via Windows Live, then its not coming to PC as far as I'm aware. Everything says "the DLC comes out today for PC, PS3, and 360" but they never specify where on the PC. :-/

it's on the EA store....but we all know how bad THAT is. :S

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murderbymodem

· #18 · Mar 17, 2009

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Nvidia really did that???? wow. changed my view of nvidia

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/...-duty-4-maps/1

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t4ct1c47

· #19 · Mar 17, 2009

I'm skeptical about this whole downloadable content crap. It seeems more and more apparent to me that the long term goal of publishers is to make their cusomers pay for additions they used to be able to get for free from the modding community.

gtarmanrob

· #20 · Mar 17, 2009

yeah and you know what would happen if people stopped paying for DLC like maps and mod-related downloads...the devs would prevent or ban the release of any SDK's for anything.

so in the end, they will win. its how it is. money > all

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