BG&E for 5 dollars on Steam

[kingcomrade]

Beyond Good and Evil is 5 dollars on Steam for the rest of the weekend. Better go buy it.

 

[Fez]

Easily worth $5, if anyone doesn't have it.

 

[sportforredneck]

Too expensive.

 

[Shagnak]

Alas, when I go to buy it it says "not available in your territory".

Fuckers.

 

[Shota Shernokavich]

Alas, when I go to buy it it says "not available in your territory".

Fuckers.

Steam has continent restrictions? Aren't the games that are sold there distributed via a download, or am I misinformed?

 

[Jeff Graw]

done and done

 

[WalterKinde]

Yes it has restrictions which is why some people hate it.
Thats why some folks suffered loss of playablity for steam based games bought through importers.
These are the cd pressed games like the orange box, where valve cancelled/revoked several steam accounts because on activation it was discovered the game was activated in the "wrong" region.
Its the darkside of steam, valve has the power to revoke playability on any game downloaded or bought via a disc. Once it uses the steam network.

On Beyond Good and Evil , great game try to find a secondhand disc copy if possible before going the Steam route, if you are able to get it via Steam that is.

 

[kingcomrade]

I already have a CD version, I bought it on Steam just so that if my CDs are ever scratched I can just download it again. Also I hate messing with CDs. I mean, it's 5 dollars, no tax or shipping, that's like the cost of salad at a restaurant.

 

[Lumpy]

So is this one of those 'great no matter what kind of games you like' game?

EDIT: So how do these motherfuckers know what country I'm from anyway? And why the fuck aren't all games available everywhere, even without the special offer?

 

[WalterKinde]

EDIT: So how do these motherfuckers know what country I'm from anyway? And why the fuck aren't all games available everywhere, even without the special offer?

You have to login/register to your steam account and that tells valve where you are.
Second why its for sale in certain regions?
Money
The people who were buying the imported versions of the Orange Box were getting it cheaper than what Valve was selling it for natively in their region/country.
Then theres also the possibility of licensing fees if its a non valve game

 

[Bluebottle]

Doesn't appear to be available in the UK either.

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

Better yet, go emulate a good platformer and save yourself the cash rather than deal with half-baked stealth tacked on.

Actually you could piss away 5 bucks on much worse things, so check it out if you aren't savvy to a lot of console games, especially more modern platformers, and can stomach stupid conspiracy type stuff in the storyline.

 

[kingcomrade]

lol

 

[inwoker]

Who needs to spend money if you can play for free?

 

[Lumpy]

Who needs to spend money if you can play for free?

So why not reward the developers for making a good game?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Very charming game.

Hearing that they're making a sequel is one of few things that's giving me hope about future computer/video-gaming.

 

[DefJam101]

It's not buying the game because no money is physically removed from an inventory.

 

[Gragt]

Sounds good, the only bad part of the deal is Steam.

Yes, I'm flauting my teenage angst around.

 

[J1M]

The story fucking jumps a shark at the end.

Also, a great title for a game wasted on a platformer with nothing to say.

 

[Gragt]

[...] with nothing to say.

Did it need to say something?

 

[DefJam101]

The story fucking jumps a shark at the end.

Also, a great title for a game wasted on a platformer with nothing to say.

 

[Shoelip]

I don't get why people are calling it a platformer. You can't even jump. If anything it's like Sci Fi Zelda with an interesting setting and characters.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I don't know if I should get it, looks very i dunno. I DONT HAVE MUCH TIME TO DECIDE


edit; fuck its over

 

[sportforredneck]

I don't know if I should get it, looks very i dunno. I DONT HAVE MUCH TIME TO DECIDE


edit; fuck its over

Brilliant work Pooper.

 

[MetalCraze]

There's a sequel already in the works.
I haven't played BG&E though, but my nephew left me his copy of a game some time ago and it lies there, catching dust. So how bad is this game?

 

[ushdugery]

it's just another one of those omg everyone must play games wank reviewers like to hype like shadow of the colossus not really alll that good but kinda fun no matter what genre you are into.