King's Bounty on Steam?

[Braun]

You may legally download the game from Direct2Drive.

[gamerboots]

and the version they have wont get past the activation sequence - NON functional

[Gatts]

Originally Posted by gamerboots

and the version they have wont get past the activation sequence - NON functional

surprise surprise

[DrakeTheLesser]

Originally Posted by gamerboots

and the version they have wont get past the activation sequence - NON functional

If you're still having trouble with activation, you need to temporarily turn off your firewall. Also, I had a custom task manager (Microsoft Process Explorer) that I had to disable in order to run the game. It's that nasty SecuROM protection.

[nemesis99]

gamersgate.com (Paradox Interactive's digital download site) also sells Kings Bounty. They had the 1.6.4 patched version of King's Bounty up way before Direct2Drive or Atari did and they have patch 1.7.

I have no issues using them. You just need to download the game from their site and it does a quick activation while installing the game and you don't need to be connected online after that.

[ShadowXOR]

I just came here to say if this hits Steam I'll buy it but not until then, I only buy games on there so I don't have to deal with disks or different download services.

[nemesis99]

Have there been any developments in getting King's Bounty on Steam? I know the 1C publishing games don't tend to be sold on Steam, but Paradox Interactive did bring over their HOI and Europa series over to Steam recently, so Steam might be a bit more acceptive of some of these kinds of titles now.

It'd be good extra advertising for KB just to be on steam's front page of new releases for a while and the price of KB is quite low now that it'll attract some of the impulse shoppers on Steam that look for deals.

And the community of the KB is pretty good-natured overall, and the game is done well so it'd be probably be received positively at the Steam community.

And if Steam says it's up to the publishers to decide the price of games, if any publisher starts to offer a lower euro-charge to European customers, they'd probably get a bit of a positive reputation on there too, as right now a lot of Europeans are unhappy with the currency pricing conversion of most/all steam games of $1 = 1euro policy. But if someone starts pricing $9.99 US and 7.99Euro you kind start to get seen as a 'good guy' or a 'reasonable company'.

[Zhuangzi]

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH GAMERSGATE

*Calm voice *

Gamersgate is a similar service to Steam. I've used them both several times. I've never had a problem with GG at all. And they have the game for $9.99 now. So where can you go wrong?