A Vault Tek Announcement Options

[Arcry]

Ladies, gentlemen, and mutants their upon, I would like to direct your attention to a scheduled announcement from your friends at Vault-Tec! Please see the enclosed notice.

-Enclosed notice-

This post has been edited by Arcry: Jun 3 2015, 04:10 PM

[Alexander]

*ignores entire thread to avoid hype*

I only wanna know one thing; Steam?????

Almost certainly.

I don't know, nothing has been said yet - but I'd almost bet that it will be through Steam, because they are hand in pocket with them on everything now. Steam has a long term contract with them that is extremely beneficial to Bethesda.

You can barely get the patches and CS for Oblivion on the official site anymore; and several of the used game stores in our town have closed because (according to them) they can't compete with Valve-Steam, it is cornering the market on games - everything is going this way now; soon we won't be able to buy a hard copy of a game.

I don't like it either, but can't give up gaming the Fallout games in protest.

I hate it, and feel like they have us by the delicate parts; because once everything and all your money is tied up in Steam games, all they have to do is start charging monthly fees for us to play our own games and we will be stuck - no way to play our games without them.

Sucks; I really don't like feeling like I don't really own a game I paid for.

To be honest, I love steam. I find it very handy to have all of my games (or at least 99% of them because Blizzard doesn't do steam and because I also use GOG) in one single place. No need to worry about cd's or DVD's breaking anymore and needing to pay the entire amount again to purchase a new cd/dvd. No need to worry about being limited to a single pc to run my game on, no hassle when I get a new laptop/pc. All I need to do is make sure I never lose my access codes for Steam and I'm all set.

The only reason I sometimes feel a bout of nostalgia towards hard copies of games, is thinking back to the time when developers used to make large and intricate manuals and other stuff and shipped that with their games. But since that time seems to be past with the exception of a few special editions where you pay double for such items, I've embraced the digital era of Steam.

I've read your point about starting to charge monthly fees. Call me overly optimistic, or naive if you'd prefer that term ;-) but I don't think that will be the future. I think Valve is making tons of money as it is on steam, especially because so many people are using it. So I think they simply don't have/feel a need to change things up. Doing that would make it less interesting and would invite the start of a lot more competition, so why risk that when it's already a money making machine for them?