Darwinia now preloading over Steam
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Darwinia now preloading over Steam
Darwinia is now available for preload from Steam. On the 1st of December the Steam system sent out this advert to its customers, and began taking orders for the full game.
The full game will be unlockable on 14th December, for a price of $19.95. If you purchase the game before then you will receive a discount of 10%. This is an amazingly good deal. You need to have Steam installed before you can buy...if you don't have Steam click here.
As part of the Steam launch we made a two minute promotional video of Darwinia, which you can view here. It's a WMV file, which means it should be able to stream to you if you've got the bandwidth, but if not you can simply download it first then watch it - its only 55Mb. We spent a lot of time making this video (amazing how long it can take to record and edit 110 seconds of footage) and we'd love to hear your comments on it.
We also have another video coming within the next couple of weeks. This second video will be around 4 minutes long and is all about Introversion Software - our story and where we came from, and what we're trying to achieve. We spent a whole day running around London filming footage of us guys with a Hi-def digital film camera, and we think you're going to love some of the shots we managed to get.
We also want to clarify one issue that a few people have asked about. We will continue to support Darwinia with patches that fix bugs and add features, and we will always make those patches available via Steam AND via our website. So if you've already bought Darwinia from us you have nothing to worry about - you're not going to miss out on anything. Likewise, if you purchase the game over Steam you will receive all of our updates automatically.
The full game will be unlockable on 14th December, for a price of $19.95. If you purchase the game before then you will receive a discount of 10%. This is an amazingly good deal. You need to have Steam installed before you can buy...if you don't have Steam click here.
As part of the Steam launch we made a two minute promotional video of Darwinia, which you can view here. It's a WMV file, which means it should be able to stream to you if you've got the bandwidth, but if not you can simply download it first then watch it - its only 55Mb. We spent a lot of time making this video (amazing how long it can take to record and edit 110 seconds of footage) and we'd love to hear your comments on it.
We also have another video coming within the next couple of weeks. This second video will be around 4 minutes long and is all about Introversion Software - our story and where we came from, and what we're trying to achieve. We spent a whole day running around London filming footage of us guys with a Hi-def digital film camera, and we think you're going to love some of the shots we managed to get.
We also want to clarify one issue that a few people have asked about. We will continue to support Darwinia with patches that fix bugs and add features, and we will always make those patches available via Steam AND via our website. So if you've already bought Darwinia from us you have nothing to worry about - you're not going to miss out on anything. Likewise, if you purchase the game over Steam you will receive all of our updates automatically.
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Re: Darwinia now preloading over Steam
YMICrazy502 wrote:I know from your post that the retail version will continue to get updates and patches but does that include multiplayer?[...]
Chris wrote:[...]We also want to clarify one issue that a few people have asked about. We will continue to support Darwinia with patches that fix bugs and add features, and we will always make those patches available via Steam AND via our website. So if you've already bought Darwinia from us you have nothing to worry about - you're not going to miss out on anything. Likewise, if you purchase the game over Steam you will receive all of our updates automatically.
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shinygerbil wrote:Nope. But when Microsoft come knocking at my door, I'll happily delete any codecs they want me to. Or, indeed, boot over to the perfectly legal XP installation that came with my laptop wmv isn't that popular, anyway...
Amen.
BTW, I thought it was kind of legal to use the codecs if you owned a legal copy of XP? Although I admit it'd take some time for me to dig up the CD from wherever it might have gotten since I've last seen it...
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