King's Bounty on Steam?

ShadowXOR · #1 03-11-2009, 01:15 AM

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 · #2 03-27-2009, 05:23 PM

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 · #3 03-27-2009, 10:11 PM

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?

nemesis99 · #4 03-28-2009, 05:35 PM

Oh I like gamersgate, but I'm saying moreso it'd be beneficial for King's Bounty (and it's developers/community) to be available on Steam to boost it's popularity, gain some extra sales in the process, and grow a bigger community if it was offered on Steam. It's not a gamersgate vs. steam vs. other download service issues, it's more of, why not get the extra exposure for King's Bounty.

There's a lot of prospective clients on Steam that don't use other download services and it's free front-page advertising for newly listed Steam games. It usually doesn't make sense to ignore one of the most popular direct download services. Even if it debuted as a weekend deal at 9.99 and higher otherwise it'd still be good exposure.

Granted it would probably be better to gain the extra publicity & advertising closer to the expansion pack release date. Right now let Gamersgate get the majority of sales at 9.99, but in a few weeks/months when those dry up, it'd be good to advertise to other prospective customers (steam).

ShadowXOR · #5 06-08-2009, 02:43 AM

It's now available on Steam and I'm going to get it. I have nothing against Gamer's Gate but I buy ALL my games on Steam. I love it and I'm not going to change now. I have everything in one place with in-game chat and web browser.

Is there a head-to-head multiplayer going to be ever added? That would be awesome.

bugmenot · #6 07-02-2009, 02:58 AM

Right now it's going for $20 on Impulse.

http://www.impulsedriven.com/kingsbounty

I would avoid buying on Steam like the plague. This particular game seems to completely break when moving between some versions. Some are unstable, some have a different way of handling saved games. (read: incompatible) Being forced to use the latest version is not good.

I don't believe Impulse has any DRM. You can set it up as an external game in Steam and get all the benefits of the Steam overlay. Save yourself $10 and some annoyance at the same time.
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