Red Orchestra goes retail....via Steam

its built on Unreal 2.5 though

Very interesting to see something built on UE on Steam.

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Very interesting to see something built on UE on Steam.

Remember, Steam is just a very efficient Bittorrent. Doesn't matter what engine the end prodcut runs.

only none valve game that comes to steam that i wil actually buy wil probably be sin episodes... who want to pay for a FREE mod anyway?...

Because it's not a mod. Read the interview.

But yeah, this is good stuff. I still reckon Valve are going to end up as a super-major player in the digital publishing business as time goes on. No end of third-party games have signed up with them in the past few months alone -- HL2 really opened the floodgates. They have a (what is now) stable system, a huge userbase and it's already on many PC gamers' systems. It's ideal for developers who don't want to front physical publishing costs.

Good for Valve. I want Steam to become the way I buy all my games.

I don't think they won a UE3 license. Just UE2.5.

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Because it's not a mod. Read the interview.But yeah, this is good stuff. I still reckon Valve are going to end up as a super-major player in the digital publishing business as time goes on. No end of third-party games have signed up with them in the past few months alone -- HL2 really opened the floodgates. They have a (what is now) stable system, a huge userbase and it's already on many PC gamers' systems. It's ideal for developers who don't want to front physical publishing costs.

Yeah I just read about some other company today who are going to distribute their game via Steam (can't remember who but it was a moderately big name)

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Yeah I just read about some other company today who are going to distribute their game via Steam (can't remember who but it was a moderately big name)

Pirates of the Burning Sea? It's not that big name, but it is a MMOG.

:edit: Forgot about Warren Spectors new game, but it's a Source game that is distributed through Steam so it's a no brainer.

Am I way off, but isn't UE3 engine with all the goodies worth something like 250,000 dollars?

UE2 is, 3 is alot more already afaik, certainly if you want some goodies

I think I may well buy it. I've heard very, very good things about it.

Last I checked...

UE2 = $300,000 - $700,000, depending on options; but this is probably cheaper now that UE3 is out.

UE3 = I've heard upwards of $1,000,000, but it probably varies depending on options.

Cheap...

if ue3 is 1000000, i can see why people decide to write their game for torque.

so they won a million dollars

I'm not down with this Unreal-majig. Is UE2 the original Unreal Tourney and UE3 UT2k3/2k4?

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I'm not down with this Unreal-majig. Is UE2 the original Unreal Tourney and UE3 UT2k3/2k4?

Nuh.

UT2k3 was UE2 and UT2k4 was UE2.5, the next-gen games like, UT2k7, Gears of War, Huxley and slew of others are UE3.