Downloadable version ETQW

[Dima]

When etqw come out, can we just download game (for paid of curse, not for free) and play it instantly?

Will be there some services like STEAM or EA Link?

This will solve a big problem with localization versions, that comes out months later after initial release.

[Mr.4lerGia]

If it will be posible to Download i hope that will be beter work then STEAM.:eek:

[Apos]

Steam products works fine. I've never had a problem with this.

ps. but EA Downloader/Links sux!

[bz$_]

i'd go for a full version on dvd which could be unlocked by means of a STEAM like system.. ;)

[taken]

Well atvi have published games on steam before, so not impossible :)

[Hakuryu]

Please god no Steam.

I couldn't play Half Life 2 for a couple of weeks since my internet service was down when I bought it. It's just a freaking sales tool for Valve. If I want news, reviews, upcoming game info, etc... I'll go look for it... please dont make me have to go through extra steps before I can play a game.

Quake Wars already auto updates, and there is a single player portion to the game (bots), so imo no need for any crappy wrapper-like program around Quake Wars like Steam.

[Fr0sti3]

Why ya blame Steam. Actually its a fine platform for download, update and play games. In my eyes ID should do somthing like it. Valve fighted too much with that platform with pirathy.

/Frost~

[mighty_wolf]

nice

it would be good to pay then dl

[cheesecake]

An ID steam system would be good and they could have all their back catalog on there.

[BlackJack]

Not Steam supported but It will be downloadable imo.

[Mordenkainen]

Well, from the publisher's perspective offering games as a download poses some problems if the game is large. Valve can extol the virtues of Steam downloads when their main game (Half-Life 2) is only a few GBs big. With a game like QW (which I expect to go over 7gb) the economics of downloading doesn't pay off as much:

Valve serves a 3gb game for 50 euros/whatever, Activision serves a 7gb game for the same 50 euros. See where I'm going?

From the gamer's perspective there are also problems. The Direct2Drive and similar schemes have problems with getting dedicated patches later, which is not a problem for (primarily) single-player games but when you can't connect online because you don't have the latest patch it becomes a real problem for MP games. Steam doesn't have this problem but does have file decryption performance problems. I'm sure most people wouldn't like to have slower loading times or lower framerates (since MegaTexture stream) because of copy-protection.

[Radea]

I just hope they have some means of mandatory autoupdates like steam. There are too many people playing unpatched ET which really hurts the competitive community.

[isendel]

updates shouldnt be mandatory - sometimes they break things completely. the et 2.60 patch for example was not used in the comp scene until etpro could be run with it

notification of a new patch is probably the best way of going about it. most of the unpatched players probably never knew there was one

[Lanz]

I have no hopes about them adding download as an option for the game. And really it took some time for Steam to get usable to a lot of users irritation. It's quite good now, but it took some time.

[CAL|Daniel]

I just hope they have some means of mandatory autoupdates like steam. There are too many people playing unpatched ET which really hurts the competitive community.

agreed, same problem was in rtcw.

[dzjepp]

Yes, autopatches would be nice. Didn't id say before they where looking into bittorrent usage in one of their products?

[Infiltrator]

Well they are taking this game completely to the next level, I have no doubt there is going to be at least a notification system, if not an in-game autoupdater.

[Pseudo]

Really enjoy steams content manager, can be slow then a game is released though. Direct 2 Drive has high transfer rates, while I don't really enjoy the company I haven't had problems with games from them other than they don't have many games.

[fusen]

if this feature was going to happen, someone would have mentioned it by now.

I STRONGLY doubt it'll be available to download and play at release

[Viperkhan]

I've bought a few games through Steam and I like the service. I think that ET:QW will be made available through DL eventually too. It looks to be an increasing trend tbh.

[TX_RED_ANT]

Dwnld ftw!

[J_DiRT]

I hope so :)

EALink is new but it is getting better, Steam was a POS when it was released but got better over time........

[crumblycake]

Never had a problem with using steam...if it's avail through steam...that's fine with me...

[EG|Element]

I hope they do something for this, maybe Direct 2 Drive since there using Gamespy.

[Evilsmurf]

having used both steam and EA link i have to admit i have never had a problem with either, altho i have pre orderd this game as i just cant wait for it to download every time i format (granted thats only every few years)

[fusen]

I too haven't had too much problems with steam... but still everyone knows it's the "cool thing" to say steam sucks ;P ¬.¬

[crospyder]

i think only some minor percentage of peeps had probz with steam... and im in that minority lol

[Chasepwner]

The only real answer for this would be something like Direct2Drive. Steam would be cool (don't know why some people hate it, wonderful tool from the start even though it was a bit buggy) but I don't see that happeneing. If you're worried about a program for the game auto-updating, I think I remember in an interview that they were working on a program that would auto-update the game.

[urwathrtz]

I need a box, CD/DVD, and an instruction booklet that I can read while taking a dump. Yeah, like you folks weren't thinking the same thing... ;)

[dmschaos]

I wasnt thinking it, but I'll be living it :)

[SpankMuffin]

I haven't heard of any partnerships between SD and anyone who operates a download service so I would venture to assume there won't be any "Pay and Play" option upon release. Running a service like that takes a lot of organization to do well, and unless SD is devoting a lot of resourses to it or has partnered with someone to handle it for them (for example Valve and Steam. God I hope not) then I doubt it will happen in time for launch.

It would be a cool option, but personally, I like having a physical copy of all my games. :)

[escapedturkey]

I'd like to see a mailing list, created by the publisher and/or developer, for server admins so they get priority information when the latest updates are available. This way servers get updated quickly -- particularly Linux servers. It's preferable to do manual updates, with Linux, especially because symlinks of pk4's are often used for space saving, faster IO, and piracy prevention.

Thank you. :)

[Joker_mx]

I need a box, CD/DVD, and an instruction booklet that I can read while taking a dump. Yeah, like you folks weren't thinking the same thing... ;)

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE! Haha, nice to see someone else does this, too.

[Grayman]

I just like having a boxed copy because it makes my purchase feel safer. I wouldn't like to have steam running to have to play the game but if the game was on staem that shouldn't be an issue since defcon works with and without.

[demetri]

imo I like to have the game box on my shelf

http://www.etqw.com/uploads/images/newsetqw/boite.jpg

so whatever..

the only advantage would be to download the game if the DVD/CD is broken with the cd-key as authentication

[Strogg]

There is no way I would download a game from any company again! Bought the update to BF2 got screwed big time. I want the dvd/cd in my hands! ;)

[demetri]

uhm.. the booster pack or ? cause if u bought an update, dude u have been screwed ;p

[space]

I need a box, CD/DVD, and an instruction booklet that I can read while taking a dump. Yeah, like you folks weren't thinking the same thing... ;)

Ha I'm oldschool too =]

[Martijn]

I think must ppl like it with the box more :)

[gurgle]

i would like to buy via steam so i dont have to bother with a dvd disk

[urwathrtz]

Ha I'm oldschool too =]

Awesome, I'm currently reading Rainbow 6 : Vegas.

[Moncealyo]

I need a hard copy. I like to lick them dvds.

[Charliebrownau]

It would be good to see an optical disc retail shop copy and a online
pay to download release of the game .

BUT what I find with most of the online pay to download games is:

The download to pay release is the SAME cost as the shop retail game
now the download copy does not need a disc , box or cost of sending it
around the world to be sold , or the cost of using a distro company to
market/sell the game for them , so WHY are they the same cost ?

Also the Online pay to download and Retail disc should be avail at the
SAME TIME AROUND THE WORLD .

Please dont let this be yet another game that comes out in USA in xx date
then months later everywere else

[Fanatik]

Direct2Drive is good in theory, but it has problems such as not being able to download a patch the day they come out for boxed versions, and it's just better to physicaly have the game.

Stop being lazy and go to your local Best Buy and get a copy IMO. :)

[Lanz]

I need a box, CD/DVD, and an instruction booklet that I can read while taking a dump. Yeah, like you folks weren't thinking the same thing... ;)
They're usually best used during the "cleaning up phase". Since it's usually only a single paper nowdays with some controll binds on them anyway.

[seik]

a hard copy must be for me, but also an auto-update

[InsideTheAsylum]

I'd really like it if you could pre-load the game like with HL2 and then mosy over to the story to buy the disks and the key and then unlock it and start playing as soon as I get back. As for bandwidth, it'd dirt cheap nowadays and there's also always bittorrent. For something like ET:QW where you'll constantly have very many people connected to the tracker everyone should get very decent speeds (assuming they're not behind a college firewall ~_~.) Heck, the devs could offer some sort of a "kill credit" for those who donate their bandwidth for uploading. It'd be sort of cheap, but I know very very stat whores would have the torrent open if it means they could say they have 50 more kills a day or something =p

[Afterglow]

I usually prefer having the boxed version over a downloadable one, but anything can happen to the discs. So an option if you already have the code would be to download it later as a replacement measure. Just an idea though.

[Silenius]

I prefer to have the game in boxed version, dont trust steam.

[Derfel Gadarn]

I would prefer getting it on Steam. Isn't Activision the publisher for ET:QW? There're a few Activision games available on Steam already. I really hate having to bother with keeping the disc in the drive to play and I don’t like using cracks to get around that problem. Some THQ games like Company Of Heroes, and Dawn Of War have removed the need to keep the discs in the drive to play. That would be a good solution to the problem too.

[un1zo.]

Steam products works fine. I've never had a problem with this.

ps. but EA Downloader/Links sux!

When it was EA Downloader it was a pretty decent program, it was when EA decided to scrap it and come up with EA Link that it got crap.

[Silentbob2000]

I'd like to see a downloadable version. Yeah Steam was a nightmare back in my 56k days and EA link sucks. But I'd like to think that ID would serve us better. Face it its a game we are all going to play online so why not download it

[Death_Proof]

I need a box, CD/DVD, and an instruction booklet that I can read while taking a dump. Yeah, like you folks weren't thinking the same thing... ;)

WOW! I was going to post the same exact thing. LOL

[gurgle]

i wonder since activision games are on steam, if QW will be as well? i would love to purchase it on there. tia

[nemes1s]

I would prefer getting it on Steam. Isn't Activision the publisher for ET:QW? There're a few Activision games available on Steam already. I really hate having to bother with keeping the disc in the drive to play and I don’t like using cracks to get around that problem. Some THQ games like Company Of Heroes, and Dawn Of War have removed the need to keep the discs in the drive to play. That would be a good solution to the problem too.

I would prefer it too.

saves me waiting for a delayed delivery -.-

[Finko]

I've noticed the common practice these days is to sell the game normally (boxes, CDs) to begin with, so they get their money's worth from the packaging, etc. Then offer a downloadable version later. But they want that initial production of retail versions off the shelves before giving people the alternative to download it.

[nemes1s]

I might aswell pre order then doh -.-

[Spynie]

I really don't see why people rant on steam, maybe it's the old version but believe it or not valve are one of the good guys. you don't need the internet to play SP games, just tell steam to work offline, and if you don't like news pop up's, disable them. could not be easier.

my experience with EA Link however, goes like this:

connecting...
reconnecting....
connecting...retrieving content...
reconnecting...
uninstall

what's also great is now steam supports Prey, so i just installe it, and now can play Prey where ever, but unfortunately they don't support any steam games/apps which don't come with serial keys :( too bad about thief 3 :/

[nutcrackr]

well it might be on steam as activision already have several games on there for purchase. Out of game server browser would be awesome to use because I love it with cs:s. That and no cd swapping

[CodE-E]

well it might be on steam as activision already have several games on there for purchase. Out of game server browser would be awesome to use because I love it with cs:s. That and no cd swapping

For real, I'd be glad to have ET:QW running on Steam.

I wouldn't buy it through Steam, though, unless I could get it earlier than the retail version, or if it would be significantly cheaper.