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Casual Games & Steam

28.Dec.2008

I don’t play computer games as much as I used to and above that, I don’t seem to take so much fun out of big and complex games as before. So now I can say I really understand all the buzz around casual games and the important market it is. What I still hadn’t realized was how the market around games had evolved.

This post from Jeff Atwood lead me to the Steam store, a sort of iTunes for videogames. I already had been a couple of times there, but only now (with the whole Christmas sales) I realized the great collection they got. And at reasonable prices, since that was one of the biggest issues preventing people from buying more computer games. And not just big editors games, but also small, casual, and indie games. There were already several platforms for indie games, but I still hadn’t seen them in such variety and mixed up with all the other genres.

I just don’t like having to install their software to do some actions like playing demos, although the software must be useful for maintaining you steam games library. Maybe this is the time I’ll start buying computer games again, the Holiday’s Sale is tempting…

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2 Comments

Well. If you don't like the DRM check the developers website. For instance, World of Goo offers the game completely DRM free, and it's available on Mac OS X too (with Linux coming soon). Others may do too. Also, even with the discount on steam, I paid 14,82€ (depends on the exchange rate) for World of Goo when I bought it from the developers site, which is a few cents cheaper than on steam, and all that (minus paypal fees) goes to the developers. Just so you know, World of Goo is great. I highly recommended. And, one last thing about steam in Europe. 1€ ≠ 1$ http://steamcommunity.com/groups/1e1us

luis / 29.Dec.2008 at 09:42am

I was willing to forget about the DRM over having a platform where I would have all my games available for download, whenever I wanted. But after knowing about that issue with the currency conversions, I'm reconsidering...

And I already tried out World Of Go and yes, it's great =)