This is a great move by Valve! Not because I want to buy from Impulse rather than Steam, but just as I don't like being forced to buy EA titles through Origin, I don't think Valve should force people to buy via Steam. Steam/Valve might be a better "monopoly" than Origin/EA, but it's still nice...
Don't do that without checking the price of a physical copy first! Unless you want to pre-load and play the moment it's released (or whenever the servers finally let you activate), it might be cheaper for some weird reason..
Yeah, this surprised me enough to go ahead buy it.. Now I just hope the MW2 map pack will come down in price somewhat faster - 15 EUR is a little too crazy for me! :P
Have a look at the "Extra Copies" article in support here: LINK
The short story from there is:
It is a shame (but very understandable) this is still unknown to many Steam customers. I would like them to warn the customer whenever they are about to purchase a pack that contains "wasted"...
I would chain a Raptor to each side of my tank and thereby easily WIN!
And even if Raptors are extinct (actually, that's just what they want you to believe, so they can escape their fame from the Jurassic Park movies), they're like the color black - never out of fashion and thus; modern!
If the plan is to develop a full DotA game, wont they be doing the same thing as S2 Games is doing with Heroes of Newerth - only using an original developer? I don't know much about DotA myself, but I've been playing around with the HoN beta..
Anyone who knows if there are any rights from DotA...
Live coverage of the Steam content servers serving L4D 50% off / update:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
looks like a massive spike! I just bought the game but so far I'm unable to download it.
Since that one is already taken by Hades, I would instead travel back through time and in every single thread on every forum on the internet post "FIRST!" before anyone else has a chance to reply/comment!
All the way up until this thread where I now post:
EPIC WIN!
and achieve max internet...