FTM: out on steam ?

[Mabs]

presume it is ? its not showing up as a preorder yet, but then DI;G only came out the night before
any chance an official type person can verify this ? if its not / theres been a prob, i shall get the GG one and jury rig it

 

[AussieVesti]

To memory, Steam have a tendency to release Paradox Interactive games a couple of days after the scheduled release. Similarly, I haven't seen Steam put up any Paradox releases for pre-order, unlike Gamersgate.

 

[comsubpac]

it won't be released before the 28th nothing more is known.

 

[Zaku]

Never ever buy anything from steam. It is an overrated piece of... I don't know why people are still using it.
Games on it usually come out later then release date, patches are always late, mods are not working 100%, expansions and dlc are only compatibe if you have the core game on steam, the download speed is slow, multiplayer games on it lagg like hell...

Buy it from GG.

 

[comsubpac]

Never ever buy anything from steam. It is an overrated piece of... I don't know why people are still using it.
Games on it usually come out later then release date, patches are always late, mods are not working 100%, expansions and dlc are only compatibe if you have the core game on steam, the download speed is slow, multiplayer games on it lagg like hell...

Buy it from GG.

all this does not apply for hoi3. the steam version is exactly the same as every other version. you can use all patches, mods, dlc... as soon as they are available. you can even combine steam hoi3 with gamersgate semper fi without problems.
the only thing you can't do is buying expansions without the main game.

 

[Johan]

It will be on steam.

 

[Raptor83]

1. Games on it usually come out later then release date,
2. patches are always late,
3. mods are not working 100%,
4. expansions and dlc are only compatibe if you have the core game on steam,
5. the download speed is slow,
6. multiplayer games on it lagg like hell...

Buy it from GG.

1. Almost always released on same day as other services (D2D, GG, Impulse) if permited by publisher.
2. patches are released same or another business day after they recieve it from publisher
3. whether or not mods work depends on developer.
4. Steam wont let you buy DLCs if you dont have base game from them, otherwise DLCs for kost games are compatible.
5. Steam can max out 155Mb/s connection which I have at work.
6. For most games MP have nothing to do with Steam and as such games performance isnt in any way affected by Steam. Also Steamworks MP components are much better (and with less bugs) than what many other games are using.

 

[Romtos]

2. patches are released same or another business day after they recieve it from publisher

It took 1 or 2 months or so for For the Glory to have its patch on Steam. So this is a factual error.

Also, the tinkering of Steam with the games ensures checksum problems, so multiplayer between Steam and non-Steam copies is troublesome.

 

[comsubpac]

It took 1 or 2 months or so for For the Glory to have its patch on Steam. So this is a factual error.

Also, the tinkering of Steam with the games ensures checksum problems, so multiplayer between Steam and non-Steam copies is troublesome.

all this doesn't matter for hoi3 so in fact what you are saying is wrong. no patch problems and no checksum problems.

 

[Romtos]

all this doesn't matter for hoi3 so in fact what you are saying is wrong. no patch problems and no checksum problems.

Both Zaku and Rapot83 were making generalized statements, so I'm not sure why you attempt to limit what I'm saying to just HoI3, nor why it would invalidate my statements.

 

[comsubpac]

Both Zaku and Rapot83 were making generalized statements, so I'm not sure why you attempt to limit what I'm saying to just HoI3, nor why it would invalidate my statements.

this is the hoi3 forum and the original question was about for the motherland...

 

[Romtos]

this is the hoi3 forum and the original question was about for the motherland...

Surely, you can see that I was responding to Raptor83 who responded to Zaku both with generally holding statements about Steam? You already made your point that you think those points don't hold in an earlier post in this thread. Repeating this in an ill-fitting manner while replying to me doesn't add anything to that. Especially not when you attempt to claim that my generalized comments don't hold because they don't hold for HoI3 and are thus wrong by extension? That's not even logical.

 

[damnt512]

multiplayer games on it lagg like hell...

i gotta disagree on this

 

[Kallocain]

It took 1 or 2 months or so for For the Glory to have its patch on Steam. So this is a factual error.

This was not entirely Steams fault though. It was a mess of different communication errors from several sides.

 

[Romtos]

This was not entirely Steams fault though. It was a mess of different communication errors from several sides.

Ah, ok. I imagined the patch sitting on their shelf for all that time gathering dust.

 

[Mabs]

thanks for the replies, official and otherwise

for the record, steam had Darkest Hour out to buy 24 hours before release, - but they dont have PI games in their long "coming soon" lists, which is why i asked

and to be fair to steam, a lot of the probs with it are developer side (im not talking about PI or anyone in particular) - but if Steam dont get the files, they cant help it.
only main prob with steam is the way it patches based on checksum, generating some awfully big downloads.
apart from that, never had a prob, so dont understand the rage it generates tbh :/

 

[Coto196]

After buying DI:G from GG I'm never buying anything there again.

So FTM will be released on Impulse aswell, right?

 

[Raptor83]

only main prob with steam is the way it patches based on checksum, generating some awfully big downloads.
apart from that, never had a prob, so dont understand the rage it generates tbh :/

Patch to avoid such excessive downloads is in testing (current public Beta of Steam contain part of that fix), so This should be resolved soon.