SAS
Can't get enough of FH
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Valve's drive towards selling Half-Life 2 online via its steam content system, and recent announcement of the end of its publishing deal with VU Games has raised some questions. Will we ever see a Valve boxed games appear on shop shelves in future? Will other game developers sell their games direct to gamers? Would this be good for us?
As part of the recent legal settlement between Valve and VU Games, which will see VU Games withdrawing all of its Valve-created products from August 31st, could signal a move to online-only distribution for the firms products - Source GamesIndustry.biz
Personally for my money I'd like a shiny box I can rip open and a manual to flick through as the game installs 3 gb+ onto my space starved hard disk. But is this going to be seen as an old skool way of buying games in the future?
As part of the recent legal settlement between Valve and VU Games, which will see VU Games withdrawing all of its Valve-created products from August 31st, could signal a move to online-only distribution for the firms products - Source GamesIndustry.biz
Personally for my money I'd like a shiny box I can rip open and a manual to flick through as the game installs 3 gb+ onto my space starved hard disk. But is this going to be seen as an old skool way of buying games in the future?