The Weekend Steam

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This week, Steam’s Weekend Deal is on a special Ubisoft Classic Pack which costs USD $9.99 (approx. AUD $14.42 / GBP £9.99).

The pack includes four classic Ubisoft games, which are Beyond Good & Evil, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Far Cry and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. If purchased individually, the total price of all four games would be USD $39.96, so you’re looking at a saving of roughly 75%. For more information on each title and to be taken to the download page, click here.

Before making your decision if you should purchase it or not, we'd like to take the time to highlight an important fact for our readers who aren’t in Australia or the UK. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is not available to users in parts of Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. If you live in any of these regions please refer to the Region Restrictions page to make sure your country isn’t listed. If it is, unfortunately Dark Messiah of Might and Magic will not be included in your download.

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12 Comments

ace_mclean

11 months ago

Thanks for the post Joseph!
This would be one of Steam's best deals, as each game is a fun classic. YOu're paying about $3.75 for each one? Count me in!

Anyhow, i was just wondering that since Dark Messiah uses the source engine, does that mean that all the source Mods from steam would also be available? If so, that it one super bang for your buck!

Island_Wolf

11 months ago

Cheers Joseph.

Also, I would like to add the Steam's Ubisoft Thursday 50% deal for Far Cry 2 for US$24.99 had been extended throughout the weekend too [link to the game (need to be of age 17+)]

Source: Steam News

jads

11 months ago

PALGN is where i've first heard about Steam - one (or two) questions, wouldn't the download sizes be massive (like several Gb per game?) to download games such as the above? How does it work?
Thanks!

Starman

11 months ago

Be prepared to download games of anywhere up to 10gb. I still have UT3 to download but because of the massive size its on hold (8gb for game, 1gb for patch).

slapshakle

11 months ago

Far out, I need a credit card.

That's a rather awesome deal.

Mr Waffle

11 months ago

Island_Wolf wrote

Also, I would like to add the Steam's Ubisoft Thursday 50% deal for Far Cry 2 for US$24.99 had been extended throughout the weekend too [link to the game (need to be of age 17+)]

Be warned that it, bizarrely, comes with Securom (with 5 activation limit). Why you'd need a second dose of DRM is beyond me, but they've certainly lost my sale because of it.

JD-Ferel

11 months ago

jads wrote

PALGN is where i've first heard about Steam - one (or two) questions, wouldn't the download sizes be massive (like several Gb per game?) to download games such as the above? How does it work?

Thanks!

Well thankfully Internode (and in this case Adam) at least have our backs. You can point the downloads for steam at internode servers, given internode servers count as no data cost with adam and internode IIRC. Though to be honest Im not sure if that's just updates or all of it. As for what happens, the game is downloaded into a folder to where steam is installed (so usually C:-program files-steam-steamapps-user-game title

Mr Waffle wrote

Be warned that it, bizarrely, comes with Securom (with 5 activation limit). Why you'd need a second dose of DRM is beyond me, but they've certainly lost my sale because of it.

IIRC secure-rom was designed to go agains disc imaging tools yes?? As for the 5 activation deal; that wouldn't matter if your using steam given the key would always be registered to your account.

Sambo110

11 months ago

Steam is completely unmetered for me, I am with Internode. Plus I get awesome ping on CS:S, even when capped.

Island_Wolf

11 months ago

Yep, love internode. Unmetered Australia-wide!. The only issue I have is the 512kbps connection.

Wow, I didn't know that any games would still give playable ping when capped, never been capped my whole life.

Jellyfish

11 months ago

Island_Wolf wrote

Latency is the biggest killer in online games not the bandwidth (unless you count voice). The reason Dial-Up sucked so bad for online gaming was because of the latency not the bandwidth.

Sambo110

11 months ago

I sometimes get under 10 ms ping in CS:S while capped, it is awesome. I get better ping than my friends ADSL 2+ connection, and I am only on 1.5 mb/s.

Skiller

11 months ago

slapshakle wrote

Far out, I need a credit card.

Actually no you dont. Steam supports Paypal and you can set up a paypal account without a credit card

JD-Ferel wrote

IIRC secure-rom was designed to go agains disc imaging tools yes?? As for the 5 activation deal; that wouldn't matter if your using steam given the key would always be registered to your account.

Securom is actually a whole suite of DRM "solutions", it is what is used for the activations in this case. Also the 5 activation thing is a big deal because it's not an activation with your steam account it's an activation on each PC you run it on and since steam would normally allow you to go from playing on one PC to the next with your account alot of people have been stung by this sort of thing in the past.
Edit: And also upgrading some parts in your PC like the video card can make it think it's a new PC and use up an activation too even though it's not.

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