Oh. My. God.

[Buki_Actual]

I just downloaded the Battlefield Bad Company 2 demo for my 360. IT IS ******** AMAZING. GO GET IT NAO!  

[Variola Major]

Is there a PC demo out? I have no 360, and I neither use nor want to use my brother's PS3.  

[Man of the Demoneye]

SERIOUSLY DO WANT! I loved Bad Company as nearly EVERYTHING could be blown up. twisted I do hope there is a split screen multiplayer / co-op in this one.

There is a PC version of the game. There is a beta available, but you have to reserve a copy to get it.  

[Variola Major]

Man of the Demoneye

There is a PC version of the game. There is a beta available, but you have to reserve a copy to get it.

Damn.  

[uryu ishida]

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.  

[war_junky 91]

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

A lot of games now have items (weapons, outfits, maps) and such you can use in multiplayer mode you unlock through campaign and challenge modes.  

[AINGELPROJECT667]

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

yeah, but steam is kinda...bad at distributing games. They have that whole fiasco where you have to make a Steam acount, and then enter a code that locks the game to that account. That means that if you lose the code or led the game to someone, its practially useless.  

[uryu ishida]

AINGELPROJECT667

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

yeah, but steam is kinda...bad at distributing games. They have that whole fiasco where you have to make a Steam acount, and then enter a code that locks the game to that account. That means that if you lose the code or led the game to someone, its practially useless.

Uh, they're BAD at distributing games? They're possibly the BIGGEST game distributor around. All of the major game companies are adding similar DRM to their products, with limited installs and uses.

Lose the code and lose the game? Right. I suppose you've never actually used Steam before, have you? You put the code in once. It is not on your account, FOREVER. You NEVER have ot put it in again, no matter how many time you install the game on an infinite number of computers. You can play your games on any computer you want as long as you log in to your account. You can even keep all your saves and settings if the game supports Steam Cloud Sync. Steam takes the DRM ideas of the major companies, and makes it ******** more convenient. A centralized store, and your game is no longer tied to a given COMPUTER, but an account instead. I have all my Steam games on three computers right now.

Oh, and if it's a steam game, chances are, no matter where you get it for PC, you'll STILL need a Steam account and the Steam client.

Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. Everyone wants DRM-free games, but that makes no money for the game creation and distribution companies, because few people will buy the games, and then put them out for free download because they don't have to work around the DRM.  

[Fresnel]

uryu ishida

AINGELPROJECT667

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

yeah, but steam is kinda...bad at distributing games. They have that whole fiasco where you have to make a Steam acount, and then enter a code that locks the game to that account. That means that if you lose the code or led the game to someone, its practially useless.

Uh, they're BAD at distributing games? They're possibly the BIGGEST game distributor around. All of the major game companies are adding similar DRM to their products, with limited installs and uses.

Lose the code and lose the game? Right. I suppose you've never actually used Steam before, have you? You put the code in once. It is not on your account, FOREVER. You NEVER have ot put it in again, no matter how many time you install the game on an infinite number of computers. You can play your games on any computer you want as long as you log in to your account. You can even keep all your saves and settings if the game supports Steam Cloud Sync. Steam takes the DRM ideas of the major companies, and makes it ******** more convenient. A centralized store, and your game is no longer tied to a given COMPUTER, but an account instead. I have all my Steam games on three computers right now.

Oh, and if it's a steam game, chances are, no matter where you get it for PC, you'll STILL need a Steam account and the Steam client.

Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. Everyone wants DRM-free games, but that makes no money for the game creation and distribution companies, because few people will buy the games, and then put them out for free download because they don't have to work around the DRM.

Yeah, except once you register the Steam game, you can't give it away and/or sell it. Like when I bought Portal and it wouldn't work on my computer because of a little-known glitch where Orange Box games won't work with Intel graphics cards. I couldn't re-gift it and I couldn't sell it. I was stuck with a game I couldn't use.

Also, ******** Valve for making their free video content only downloadable on Steam. I've got a goddamn Mac. Yeah I can play .avi files, but I can't ******** download them through Steam!  

[Requiem ex Inferni]

I'd get it, now that my Xbox is up and running again..... but I have no Gold account. And I don't have money to GET a Gold Account.  

[uryu ishida]

Fresnel

uryu ishida

AINGELPROJECT667

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

yeah, but steam is kinda...bad at distributing games. They have that whole fiasco where you have to make a Steam acount, and then enter a code that locks the game to that account. That means that if you lose the code or led the game to someone, its practially useless.

Uh, they're BAD at distributing games? They're possibly the BIGGEST game distributor around. All of the major game companies are adding similar DRM to their products, with limited installs and uses.

Lose the code and lose the game? Right. I suppose you've never actually used Steam before, have you? You put the code in once. It is not on your account, FOREVER. You NEVER have ot put it in again, no matter how many time you install the game on an infinite number of computers. You can play your games on any computer you want as long as you log in to your account. You can even keep all your saves and settings if the game supports Steam Cloud Sync. Steam takes the DRM ideas of the major companies, and makes it ******** more convenient. A centralized store, and your game is no longer tied to a given COMPUTER, but an account instead. I have all my Steam games on three computers right now.

Oh, and if it's a steam game, chances are, no matter where you get it for PC, you'll STILL need a Steam account and the Steam client.

Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. Everyone wants DRM-free games, but that makes no money for the game creation and distribution companies, because few people will buy the games, and then put them out for free download because they don't have to work around the DRM.

Yeah, except once you register the Steam game, you can't give it away and/or sell it. Like when I bought Portal and it wouldn't work on my computer because of a little-known glitch where Orange Box games won't work with Intel graphics cards. I couldn't re-gift it and I couldn't sell it. I was stuck with a game I couldn't use.

Also, ******** Valve for making their free video content only downloadable on Steam. I've got a goddamn Mac. Yeah I can play .avi files, but I can't ******** download them through Steam!

And it's quite the same with lots of other DRM systems. Including lots of modern ones. How many computers can you install a copy of Windows Home? One.
They're attempting to stop the pirate community, so they can make some ******** money. Funnily enough, you're on a computer using one of the most closed operating systems ever, with one of the most draconian computer companies when it comes to programs. They not only limit installations, they limit the goddamn HARDWARE. It's a company that acts like you're renting, not buying.  

[Fresnel]

uryu ishida

Fresnel

uryu ishida

AINGELPROJECT667

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

yeah, but steam is kinda...bad at distributing games. They have that whole fiasco where you have to make a Steam acount, and then enter a code that locks the game to that account. That means that if you lose the code or led the game to someone, its practially useless.

Uh, they're BAD at distributing games? They're possibly the BIGGEST game distributor around. All of the major game companies are adding similar DRM to their products, with limited installs and uses.

Lose the code and lose the game? Right. I suppose you've never actually used Steam before, have you? You put the code in once. It is not on your account, FOREVER. You NEVER have ot put it in again, no matter how many time you install the game on an infinite number of computers. You can play your games on any computer you want as long as you log in to your account. You can even keep all your saves and settings if the game supports Steam Cloud Sync. Steam takes the DRM ideas of the major companies, and makes it ******** more convenient. A centralized store, and your game is no longer tied to a given COMPUTER, but an account instead. I have all my Steam games on three computers right now.

Oh, and if it's a steam game, chances are, no matter where you get it for PC, you'll STILL need a Steam account and the Steam client.

Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. Everyone wants DRM-free games, but that makes no money for the game creation and distribution companies, because few people will buy the games, and then put them out for free download because they don't have to work around the DRM.

Yeah, except once you register the Steam game, you can't give it away and/or sell it. Like when I bought Portal and it wouldn't work on my computer because of a little-known glitch where Orange Box games won't work with Intel graphics cards. I couldn't re-gift it and I couldn't sell it. I was stuck with a game I couldn't use.

Also, ******** Valve for making their free video content only downloadable on Steam. I've got a goddamn Mac. Yeah I can play .avi files, but I can't ******** download them through Steam!

And it's quite the same with lots of other DRM systems. Including lots of modern ones. How many computers can you install a copy of Windows Home? One.
They're attempting to stop the pirate community, so they can make some ******** money. Funnily enough, you're on a computer using one of the most closed operating systems ever, with one of the most draconian computer companies when it comes to programs. They not only limit installations, they limit the goddamn HARDWARE. It's a company that acts like you're renting, not buying.

Haha, I bet I can get around that. We had about twenty computers running off the same XP Pro code at my high school. Officially it was a stopgap until more codes could be bought, but I can't say if they were or not. There was a really simple way to get around the "one code, one computer" rule.

Yeah, but I can still sell someone my computer if it doesn't do what I want it to. I've got as much freedom as any PC with integrated sound/video, except I can't switch my processor either. So long as the form factor of the HDD/RAM fits, I can exchange it with anything. Except some older machines can only recognize a certain memory limit, like my iMac can't read a HDD bigger than 127GB.  

[OberFeldwebel]

uryu ishida

Yep, Steam is offering it. Pre-purchase/reserve the game, adn you get Beta access till February 25th, and then you also get 6 in-game multiplayer unlocks, whatever those are.

Someone will buy it, rar and crack it.
I'll be cruising the turrs for it.

Requiem in Mortis

I'd get it, now that my Xbox is up and running again..... but I have no Gold account. And I don't have money to GET a Gold Account.

Wait...
You need a special account to get a game?