Eve Gets Steamed

[Mrbloodworth]

Sorry if this was posted else were, but i did look.

So, Eve is going to be on the Steam Network.

To celebrate the launch of Steam's first massively multiplayer online game offering, a special 21-day trial period for EVE will be available, free of charge, to all Steam gamers. Steam gamers will also save $5 off their first full month of EVE Online.

Smart move right there.

[Gets]

[Mrbloodworth]

lol.

[Grand Design]

EvE is up on Steam as of today.  When they said it arrives February, they meant February 29 and you'd better fucking hope its a leap year.

21 day trial as opposed to the usual 14 and $15 purchase as opposed to the usual $20.

I'm afraid to associate my account with Steam, not for any rights issue, but because having your MMO playing time displayed in public is a modern day Scarlet Letter.

[Ratman_tf]

I'm afraid to associate my account with Steam, not for any rights issue, but because having your MMO playing time displayed in public in a modern day Scarlet Letter.

Eeep!

[Kageru]

I'm pleased to see it appear. The eve "coming soon" notice had vanished from the game search last time I looked, was wondering the plan had fallen apart.

I still won't be playing because PvP doesn't interest me, but I'll be interested to see if any other smaller MMORPG's follow their lead.

[Morat20]

I'm afraid to associate my account with Steam, not for any rights issue, but because having your MMO playing time displayed in public is a modern day Scarlet Letter.

How do you associate your accounts? Because, hell, Steam already mocks me for owning one steam game (Half-Life: Source) and rarely playing it.

[Grand Design]

As far as I know, you can associate any game with Steam, but only those that they have on their servers can be transferred to another PC.

I've never tried it, so I'm basically just talking out of my ass.

[Venkman]

I've purchased a number of games through Steam. I don't know if this'll be the case for Eve, but for the other games (TF2, Portal, not Orange Box, Venice, Peggle, COD4), when you install and login to Steam on a different computer, any game you purchased shows up ghosted in the My Games window. You can click to redownload it to that new computer.

I suspect this'll be the case with Eve. You will buy/get the client through Steam but be hitting CCP servers after you launch it.

The only downside with Steam vs retail purchase is if there is a lag time between a new patch coming from the publisher and it being available for Steam. For example, COD4, you can't use the patch from the Activision site on COD4 if you bought it through Steam. You need to let Steam patch it for you, which means first Valve needs to get an do whatever tweaking needs doing. I think there was only a 1/2 day delay between Activision releasing a patch and Valve making it available.

But MMOs get patched way more frequently. So either there'll be a lag time for Eve installed through Steam, or the entire process of patching starts after you launch the game and CCP takes over.

[caladein]

After doing a bit of searching my understanding is that EVE isn't really being treated like a traditional Steam game.  Steam's pretty much just an extra distribution/visibility method at this point.  The most you can integrate it past downloading the trial/buying the game is "Add a non-Steam game to My Games list..."

[Venkman]

That does get ya the SHIFT-TAB overlay community stuff at least, assuming you want to launch Eve from Steam.

[Big Gulp]

That does get ya the SHIFT-TAB overlay community stuff at least, assuming you want to launch Eve from Steam.

You can get that from any game, even those you didn't buy through Steam, as long you launch it in Steam.

[Sir T]

You can already install the Eve client for free without restriction to any computer. Hell there are people that have their eve install on a Memory Key and play it off that, carrying it from computer to computer. I fail to see what advantages a steam account gives, frankly.

And I have to wonder why they are bothering putting it on steam at all.

[schild]

Steam will expose it to more people than any PR company or CCP itself EVER could.

See, Steam is popular.

Eve, despite it's rabid fanbase of OCD Math Professors, is not "popular" in any real sense of the word.

Note: Not knocking the quality or anything here, simply that in the big scheme of things it's a niche of a niche of a niche while Steam is pretty much mass market now thanks to Valve's games. And unlike Nintendo shit, 3rd party games seem to do well there.

[Morat20]

Steam will expose it to more people than any PR company or CCP itself EVER could.

See, Steam is popular.

Eve, despite it's rabid fanbase of OCD Math Professors, is not "popular" in any real sense of the word.

Note: Not knocking the quality or anything here, simply that in the big scheme of things it's a niche of a niche of a niche while Steam is pretty much mass market now thanks to Valve's games. And unlike Nintendo shit, 3rd party games seem to do well there.

EVE's sub numbers are in the 150k+ range, making it about as "popular" as any non-WoW MMORPG.

[Grand Design]

Catholicism is unpopular compared to WoW's numbers.

And less lucrative.

[Ratman_tf]

See, Steam is popular.

Valve games are popular. Steam is the malware they piggyback when you install their games. 

[schild]

See, Steam is popular.

Valve games are popular. Steam is the malware they piggyback when you install their games. 

I think you used the wrong emoticon.

[Ratman_tf]

See, Steam is popular.

Valve games are popular. Steam is the malware they piggyback when you install their games. 

I think you used the wrong emoticon.

I just like that one better.

[WayAbvPar]

Catholicism is unpopular compared to WoW's numbers.

And less lucrative.

Heh.

[Venkman]

Steam will expose it to more people than any PR company or CCP itself EVER could.

See, Steam is popular.

Eve, despite it's rabid fanbase of OCD Math Professors, is not "popular" in any real sense of the word.

Note: Not knocking the quality or anything here, simply that in the big scheme of things it's a niche of a niche of a niche while Steam is pretty much mass market now thanks to Valve's games. And unlike Nintendo shit, 3rd party games seem to do well there.

Random sidebar question: has Valve published any sort of installed-base and/or concurrency numbers on Steam?

And I don't have an agenda. I'm actually just wildly curious.

(though I reserve the right to have an agenda if the numbers aren't in the mass market range)  

[Phildo]

Catholicism is unpopular compared to WoW's numbers.

And less lucrative.

...so it was Catholicism that severed those Mediterranean internet cables in an effort to prevent certain countries from having reliable WoW access and thus driving the flock back into the churches?

[Samwise]

I bet it was one of those Opus Dei albino monk things.

[Grand Design]

Definitely an albino.

Bastards.

[Sky]

Why you gotta hold the white man down?

[Daeven]

How else are they going to get their Vitamin D, unless you pin them under a sun lamp?

[Grand Design]

And that was the comeback I was looking for.




Say what you want about albinos, but the color-blind - those people scare the hell out of me.

[Nerf]

And that was the comeback I was looking for.




Say what you want about albinos, but the color-blind - those people scare the hell out of me.

And so we should, we're coming for you, you won't know who we are until it's too late.
Oh, but we know who you are, every one of you bastards that laughs at this can expect a midnight visit.

[Phildo]

Oh god, I've been wanting to post that forever.  Thank you for releasing that tension!

[Lantyssa]

Oh, but we know who you are, every one of you bastards that laughs at this can expect a midnight visit.

Is she cute?  I'll keep a light on so she doesn't stumble in the dark.