Give your friend a "Guest Pass" for chirstmas

[spraduke]

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=871&cc=--

Got that friend who wont buy RO without trying it. Did they miss the free weekend well this looks like it will be a good alternative to the free weekend.

As I understand it you will be able to nominate a steam user account and for a "limited time" (assumed 2-3 days) for them to play the game without any cost. Obviously if they enjoy the game theyre then going to have to purchase their own copy but its still a way to get players through the door.

 

[Letum]

Who ever invented Steam needs a pat on the back! Its so flexable, easy, fast, convinient, simpe, safe, etc etc etc

 

[Nifel]

Who ever invented Steam needs a pat on the back! Its so flexable, easy, fast, convinient, simpe, safe, etc etc etc

That would be Valve, the guys behind Half-Life 1 and 2 and the upcoming Zombie game + Portal + Teamfortress 2. All of which looks absolutely fantastic!

 

[mbrooksay]

Ever since I started adding more games to my library, I've really started to see how good of a gaming program it really is.

Every game should be through Steam!!!!

 

[spraduke]

i cant remember the last time i bought a game that wasnt off steam (mainly because nothing has really interested me this year appart for RO). But even prey i was thinking about gettin is now on steam. Pure genius i tell the!

 

[PermenentMarker]

Who ever invented Steam needs a pat on the back! Its so flexable, easy, fast, convinient, simpe, safe, etc etc etc

That is just what SkyNet wants you to think
STEAM IS EVIL !!!!
Because of that DAMN Steam, I found out about THIS RO Addiction :'(
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On a serious note.
I love steam... its great

But I will never forget how HATED it was when it first came out.
Everyone freaking out
Tossing roumers left and right about it scanning you're hard drive for MP3's and movies...
Lots of bugs
Complaints about it drinking a bit of ram...

Hell, people even said CS1.6 ****ed next to 1.5 just because 1.6 ran thru steam...


Now steam is glorious... who knows, maybe we will one day think that BF2142 Adds are glorious too

=> ya right......

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(Sorry for the blabering)

On topic, I do think steam is great.
and I really like the idea of nominating a user for a RO Trial

 

[Arete]

Steam was pretty **** at launch, took quite a few months 'til it really got stable.

Nowadays, it's a great system.

 

[-MM!!-Lazarus]

Well, I used to love steam, untill they revealed their plans to push ads trough the servers they dont pay for. And server owners gets nothing but a smaller bandwith...

 

[SiC-Disaster]

i like this idea, it would stop down the overflow op asshats coming in with the only intend to TK and ruin the game for everyone else.
since you get to nominate someone, you only will nominate the people who care enough to play right, and everyone will have a lot more fun, goes too for the people trying out the game.
i dont hold a grudge to new people and free weekends, but against the people coming in just to be an ass.

 

[OneInchPunch]

nice, i hope this will applied to RO. I've got a friend who wasn't there during the trial period. I'll be glad to present him to this wonderful RO community.

 

[Murphy]

I can

 

[Bong]

Sweet. I just hope there will be a limit. Like maybe you can give 2 invites every month. Otherwise people will just masscreate steam accounts to get invited and play free, indefinetly. Other than that, it is a great idea.

 

[Tomcat_ha]

I hope you can keep the game you trailed as a preload.

 

[Coey]

An incentive like 20% off your next steam purchase would be nice for a succesfull trial.

 

[oscar.nein]

The problem with steam is that it's run by Valve. Valve happens to be a competitor to most game companies. This greatly reduces the amout of companies going through steam because of the idea of giving the enemy money.

If steam branched off as a seperate company, then it would be so much better. :/

 

[Quietus]

The problem with steam is that it's run by Valve. Valve happens to be a competitor to most game companies. This greatly reduces the amout of companies going through steam because of the idea of giving the enemy money.

If steam branched off as a seperate company, then it would be so much better. :/

Maybe better to give the "enemy" money than lose tons of it to piracy. Steam prevents piracy so you don't have one chowderhead buying a game then burning 9million copies for all his friends.

 

[george]

Ever since I started adding more games to my library, I've really started to see how good of a gaming program it really is.

Every game should be through Steam!!!!

That, my friend, is happening. Everything from Call of Duty to Sid Meiers Civilization III AND IV to Medieval II Total War to Racing Simulator games.

What more can you ask for?

 

[Yoshiro]

I am helping to test this new steam feature now and it seems to be a nice addition so far, no problems run into on my end.

 

[Capt.Marion]

on comments towards "every game should be released on steam" ArmA is on the top of the list...

 

[Sgt._Geist]

LMAO!! I was gonna say, when steam first came out.... it ****ING BLEW ASS!!

It was ****, really buggy, always freezing or crashing, friends list always down...

(ya congrats to valve for making this piece of ****!)

I would have rather had RO on its own, without ****ty steam!