Steam to Offer Guest Passes

about time! this is a great idea!

i love playing games online with my friends, but when i bought ut2k4, my friends didnt buy it as well. i had a great time playing it, i got into the clan scene and everything, but it just wasnt the same without my mates.

i am sure that if i was able to give trial accounts to them, we would have played it together for that period, and they most certainly would have bought the game.

i have a feeling that there are more cases like this one, and that this system has the potential to increase sales of a game, boost its community, and make it last longer. here in australia, a game can easily die from lack of players, and i saw this happen to ut2k4. i am now stuck playing the almost-as-awesome dod source. at least my mates play that with me.

I'd love to get my friends interested in Day of Defeat. It's a great game that not enough people play (not that I ever have problems finding a good server).

Can we send ads to our friends too? Or do we need a code for that?

dont read too deeply. this is just a ploy to get people playing DoD which isnt doing nearly as well as their other games

this is just a mask for saying public demo downloads. in fact, it's quite retarded given that the outsourcing "friend" must firstly own all of valve's games in order to "share" all those games to his/her other friends.

More information on this old post by Tom Edwards at steamreview.org:

http://steamreview.org/posts/guestpasses/

This will be an interesting development in online games. I'm not sure how this will impact the popularity of a game... but word of mouth will be pretty stronger now.

Nice idea.

whoa that's pretty cool. Hopefully they add some of their 'claim to fame' titles.