Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

Steam is for "n00bz". If you really want to ruin a game, have it published by some huge gang such as Ubisoft or EA Games.

We'd end up with an unifinished thing with no random map editor, 5 races, no unique units (every nation can train Man units only), and only 25 spells. Then it'll be flooded with expansion packs slowly drizzling the rest of the features into the game over a period of 1000 years.

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

I think Steam would be a good option. Is Shrapnel already publishing its Space Empires series via it? The program has gotten A LOT better lemme tell you, and it has great promise to become the digital delivery marketplace.

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

AFAIK,
Shrapnel doesn't publish Space Empire any more.
Steam doesn't have anything to do with neither Shrapnel Games nor Space Empires ... .

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

Ah, so it's all Malfador's territory then? Either way, I think a good way for Dom 3 to get noticed is via Steam.

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

Strategy First now owns the Space Empires series.

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

I am old fashioned. I avoid Steam like the plague. I much prefer to hold a cd in my hands and not have my game use my bandwidth to call home to the mothership everytime I want to play it. A friend of mine came to visit with his laptop and wanted to show me the half-life 2 upgrade for Team Fortress, but couldn't run it because he could not get a connection to the net from my house at the time. Maybe it was just that particular implementation of Steam, but that was my first exposure to it.

As long as it was just an alternative for distribution and not the only method of getting a particular piece of software, I would not have a problem with it.

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

The checkup stuff is rather wacked, but I believe that's only for Valve's games, no?

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Agreed. I dont mind that it exists. And even though its fine for me I would be abit irritated if it was the only option that a game supported. Even if they had to price them diffrently there should be other options IMHO.

Re: Will Ixsoft sell Dominions 3 ?
 

Aye, I agree. Options are always best.

I don't mind needing a connection if that's a better fit for something than a physical CD, but I normally just want to pop the CD in and go. That is especially true when playing from my laptop, which is often unable to pick up a suitable wireless signal.