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ajay Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 295 Location: Swindon, UK |

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: id on steam |

As well as their new game "rage" being announced at QuakeCon, all (I think) of id's back catalogues has been released on steam. You can get Quake for $9.99, and the whole catalogue for $24.99. That seems pretty good to me, 'cept you gotta have steam installed, which people seem to hate and lvoe in equale-ish measure.
I dont know if they're mod compatible, no reason to think they wouldn't be.
Seems good value to me.
Linky: http://steampowered.com/v/index.php?publisher=id&cc=GB
Oh and Quake Arena is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. I'm guessing it's Quake 3, but I've not read enough to be sure yet.
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scar3crow Inside3D Staff Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |

If the purchase then involves Steam to play, it is not a good deal. Since it involves using Steam in the first place, and the fact that you are buying Quake from Valve, a company who built its thieving empire upon Quake's throne and popularity, than it is merely ironic, sad, and a kick in the nuts.

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Dr. Shadowborg Inside3D Staff Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 726 |

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:32 am Post subject: |

scar3crow wrote:
If the purchase then involves Steam to play, it is not a good deal. Since it involves using Steam in the first place, and the fact that you are buying Quake from Valve, a company who built its thieving empire upon Quake's throne and popularity, than it is merely ironic, sad, and a kick in the nuts.

/me agrees
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Teiman Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 309 |

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: |

Is money, anyway. And money is flavourless, tasteless, etc.. Is only a quantity. How much. Having more money on id hands can be a good thing.

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Urre Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 1073 Location: Sweden |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:45 am Post subject: |

Who cares. It's really just business. If Id found a cool way to make money of their classics, then wtg Id. I don't get the whole "oh nose it's Valve, and water in gas form is bad!" If you don't like Steam, don't use it. I don't like it, so I don't use it. Others do.
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Preach Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 122 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: |

Surely the most positive attitude is "Hey, larger potential audience for my quake mod". Although I don't have a copy yet, I've heard that quake from steam runs quite comfortably with darkplaces, and so any mods shouldn't be a problem

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Urre Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 1073 Location: Sweden |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |

Preach: that's neat. Do they also have server browsing for different engines and QW/NQ? In other words, do they support filtering by protocol. _________________ Look out for Twigboy

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Preach Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 122 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |

From what I understand it's not integrated with steam in the same way as half life is. What you get is just a standard retail copy of quake, probably with glquake/winquake thrown in to the directory, and a shortcut to launch it on the steam launcher. So you can just put darkplaces in the directory and run it from a command line like you would normally. Or you could rename it and replace whatever the standard executable is with your engine of choice for launch with steam I guess.
I'm intending on buying it to check this kind of thing out, but I'm weighing up the package with all the quake games in it first.

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Spirit Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 476 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: |

It's winquake, glquake and moreQuakeWorld (or what it was called). No soundtrack. You can use it without Steam though (I think), the id1 folder is there. I wouldn't waste my money for it... _________________ Quake Maps

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leileilol Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1322 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |

although evile, it still beats equake/fquake/synq

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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: |

leileilol wrote:
although evile, it still beats equake/fquake/synq

Nice slander Cheapy
eQuake = piracy
fQuake = license agreement violation and things that are technically illegal
SynQ = legal and all GPL
You think it uses Plague's Pak or the Quake Retexturing Project or something derivative. It doesn't -- it uses content from Nexuiz, Open Arena, Open Quartz and true public domain and/or contributed content.
Thanks for the attention, Cheapy

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Sajt Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 1028 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |

I tried downloading the Hexen2 demo from steam (it uses GLHExen as the engine) but couldn't find where it stored the files... _________________ F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe.

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FrikaC Site Admin Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 947 |

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject: |

Baker wrote:
Nice slander Cheapy

To quote my hero, J. Jonah Jameson, that's untrue! Slander is spoken, in print it's libel.

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Megazoid Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 116 |

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: |

My in-dept review of 20 years development from id Software: Dangerous Dave (1988) - meh Commander Keen (1990 - 1991) - meh Rescue Rover 1 & 2 (1991) -huh? Shadow Knights (1991) -never heard of it
Hovertank 3D (1991)-erm...
Catacomb 3D: A New Dimension (1991) -bleh
Wolfenstein 3D (1992) -a couple of bonus points for nazism. Now worthless.
Spear of Destiny (1992) -cash in
Doom (1993) -addictive and advanced for the time. However, essentially mindless with no modern entertainment value.
The Ultimate Doom (1995) -cash in
Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) -popular sequel
Master Levels for Doom II (1995) -cash in
Final Doom (1996) -cash in
Quake (1996) -cool after people got PC's powerful enough to run it. In my case about 2 years later.
Quake II (1997) - robots? wtf? okay I suppose.
Quake III Arena (1999) -not even remotely connected to Quake. Lame attempt to sell an engine.
Expansion: Team Arena (2000) -whatever
Doom 3 (2004) -dark, predictable, shiny. Doom tie-in designed to sell yet another Carmac engine. [/i]
Rage (2008) -I couldn't give a monkeys.
I would say however games that have been Published / Produced by id Software have been on the whole very good. Games developed by Gray Matter Interactive, Raven Software, Splash Damage & Ritual Entertainment for id Software have been excellent.
That is all.

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Sajt Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 1028 |

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject: |

Keen was cool Hovercraft was crap Quake3 was pretty good... _________________ F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe.

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