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    Valve opens Steam software marketplace

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    PAYDAY: The Heist delayed

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      moan4stalone
      Sucks but it saves me 20 bucks because I wasn't sure if I was going to get it, crysis or [...]
      Sucks but it saves me 20 bucks because I wasn't sure if I was going to get it, crysis or nba jam.
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      HamsterGutz You can get crysis for $7.50 on steam, only 5 hours left though
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    Dark Souls developer has nasty shock for early players

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      waffman11
      I don't see why people are getting their panties in a bunch over the punishment of early players. If someone [...]
      I don't see why people are getting their panties in a bunch over the punishment of early players. If someone has gotten a game early because of a pre-order, then they most likely know what day the game is supposed to come out. Most high-profile games also have a number of posters or signs about the stores that will be selling them as a major profit item, and they all have release dates on them. It's purely a judgement call for the person with the game, and if they care about the supposed consequences. The punishment, or lack thereof, then, can go either way. The only "real" problem that the industry might face would be those retailers that completely disregard street dates and start dealing the product-in any manner-more than a week in advance. It has happened with most of the CoD's in recent memory, and the advance these people get on the game is laughable, despite the connections being based completely in Mexico (a place that is surprisingly common to connect to even now).
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      ParanoidAndroid
      But I'm still failing to see the problem of a few people getting the game early. It seems like a [...]
      But I'm still failing to see the problem of a few people getting the game early. It seems like a non-issue to me.
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      PaintedMan
      @RoeTaKa I haven't got Demon Souls. To be honest, I'd barely heard of it before this article. Nor have I [...]
      @RoeTaKa I haven't got Demon Souls. To be honest, I'd barely heard of it before this article. Nor have I ever bought a game before it's launch date. My post wasn't even about that. It's about a developer wetting their pants and punishing gamers because they're too scared to tackle the retailers that are actually breaking the rules. @ Fetalspray. I shouldn't have said 'routine'. I should have said 'regularly'. I'm pretty sure it's not standard policy for supermarkets to break street dates. But I've seen a couple do it and have heard of several others doing it not far from where I stay (Glasgow, Scotland). To be honest, in these cases it's almost certainly down to ignorance, rather than a deliberate decision to break the rules (though a games shop not far from me HAS deliberately done it at least once), but the end result is the same. Either way, the gamer who buys a product from a shelf has done nothing wrong, despite how loudly the developers bleat about it. Oh, and there are a couple of thousand supermarkets in the UK. Have you been to every one of them every time a game comes out. No? Thought not.
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