Aquaria on STEAM!!

[CooperJ]

I'd happily purchase the game again if it was to show up on Steam, even though I'd be paying a fair bit more (relatively speaking, of course - I believe an Aussie dollar was buying US 87c when the game was released).

[Morberis]

I'd like to add that if you do get Aquaria on steam try to allow previous owners that purchased Aquaria through you to register their games, in the same way that people that pre-ordered World of Goo were able to register their copies with Steam using their pre-order serial codes.

It would be a huge service to those of us that have already supported you.

[Stevedroid]

I'd like to add that if you do get Aquaria on steam try to allow previous owners that purchased Aquaria through you to register their games, in the same way that people that pre-ordered World of Goo were able to register their copies with Steam using their pre-order serial codes.

It would be a huge service to those of us that have already supported you.

There's likely a cost (to the developer) associated with doing that.  Just think about it for a moment.  Steam made/makes no money from sales of the game outside of Steam, so why would they allow those people to suck up bandwidth on their service,  downloading hundreds of megs?

I suspect for the very few non-Valve games where you can activate external CD keys/serial codes on Steam, the developers/publishers had to make specific compensation to Steam for that privaledge.

[Morberis]

I'd like to add that if you do get Aquaria on steam try to allow previous owners that purchased Aquaria through you to register their games, in the same way that people that pre-ordered World of Goo were able to register their copies with Steam using their pre-order serial codes.

It would be a huge service to those of us that have already supported you.

There's likely a cost (to the developer) associated with doing that.  Just think about it for a moment.  Steam made/makes no money from sales of the game outside of Steam, so why would they allow those people to suck up bandwidth on their service,  downloading hundreds of megs?

I suspect for the very few non-Valve games where you can activate external CD keys/serial codes on Steam, the developers/publishers had to make specific compensation to Steam for that privaledge.

I can't seem to find the qoute but I remember Gabe saying that it was free, they did however need to give valve access to the algorithm that generates the keys which almost every publisher refuses to do.

But even if, so? If he can and its not too big a cost it would still be nice if Bit Blot supported us by doing this. Just look at the goodwill that 2DBoy generated when they did it.

[Stevedroid]

Any chance of a release before the new year?

My interest is fickle and currently waning.

[Alec]

Any chance of a release before the new year?

My interest is fickle and currently waning.

 


 

[Nava]

 

You win the 2008 award for Most Oblique Response To a Valid Question.
:p

[Vision]

It might halp to get some articles and reviews on big game sites. I noticed there is a review from IGN's AU team, If you could get a review on IGN's main site it might help. and possibly gamespot as well.

[Chibi]

There already is a review on IGN's main site here. It is one of the best I've seen, and I believe that it came before the Australia version.

[EDIT] I was mistaken, though the link is easy enough to find from the main page. I doubt that IGN would redo a review with such a good one from the Aussie staff.

[Vision]

yeah I said there was from IGN AU  They don't redo reviews from their different offices, They would all show up as seperate reviews. Lots of games have all 3 reviews from US, UK and AU

[Chibi]

I can't see the point of creating three links to a single review, though I'm sure they have a good reason. 

[EDIT]: Just found a pretty limited article on Aquaria on Gamespy.

[EDIT]: I stand corrected. I must say that I am ignorant of most of these matters.

[Vision]

I think you misunderstood me, Its not 1 review, they usually have 3 seperate reviews from 3 people. you can see on the side that UK has N/A as well as the main one.

[Two Jacks]

 

I think this is a proportion of chances of it not happening to chances of it happening.

[Alec]

We shall see..... 

i know secrets

[Stevedroid]

We shall see..... 

i know secrets

^^^ Alec's post without the size command, hmm....