Ubisoft Joins Steam with Far Cry and Splinter Cell, Plans Over 40 Steam Releases

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• I'd buy this. : TabsAZ
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  I'd love a R6 pack : Degenerate
  • hell yeah I'd buy it : deject
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  GR1+expansion would be awesome : happynoodle
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    Yes, GR1. Not this silly mess we have on consoles now. I loved GR1. : valael
    • WORD! I still have GR1 and all expansions. GRAW is a joke in MP compared to GR1. : booyaka
  • god yes. seven and i played the arse off that in co-op. so good. : vomitgod
• Having never played any of these, I'm looking forward to this : indosauros

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• This is e-madness! : xrolando

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  Also how many of you work at Valve. To many of you love it waaaay to much to seem legit. ;) I know this i... : samduhman
  • You could search my post history and I hated steam with the passion of a 100 burning suns. Now.. i like i... : baron calamity
  • don't work at valve, and I love Steam like Phil loves reruns of Divorce Court : bipolar
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    You don't have to work somewhere to truly appreciate a product from a company that GETS IT. While Stea... : carbontree
    • Im not pointing any fingers. :P However we all know there are shills in forums and from what I've seen on... : samduhman
• I actually also love displaying the boxed copies of the games even though I like Steam. : someWayne
• So no one knows the answer to if you forget your login and secret log on? : samduhman

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  Who is left? EA, Actard, and.... ? : baron calamity
  • Activision were on before the merger, I guess there is a good chance their management may just bring all ... : Beady
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    EA will never join. They have their own service called EA Link/Store http://www.ea.com/ealink/ : grabbie
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      Which, I bet, wouldn't net them as much money if they were on Steam. : Matt Burris
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        Which is why I bet they cave within the next 2 years especially if Steam continues to improve and grow. : K1Bond007
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          And especially if Steam winds up killing PC retail in the long run. Double especially if Valve spins Stea... : Schnapple
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            especially if ea keeps charging you to be able to re-download you game more than 6 months after purchase.... : RetroRedEyeJr
            • Who was the EA exec that thought up of that? What a moron. : jtthe2nd
  • EA is pretty much it. There's a couple others like Warner Bros that would be nice.. (Warner owns Monolith... : K1Bond007
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    Stardock. Which, ironically, would be absolutely perfect for Steam. Well actually it's even more perf... : Schnapple
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      We won't put our games on Steam anytime in the foreseeable future. Especially since Impulse is near relea... : mittense
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        When will we get some info on StarDocks next game? :( : pimpium
        • You're getting info on The Political Machine and Twilight all the time! : mittense
      • eh, I bought sins off of amazon because it was 5 bucks cheaper with free shipping and what not... Thou... : dedgecko
      • this is unfortunate : eyegeegeewhy
• Activision if its that what you mean, has its catalog on steam already : easeup
• Don't forget D2D. I've bought a couple games off them and it worked just fine. : SovietOrchestra

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• janitor : deject

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  The answer is, unfortunately, not necessarily. There are lots of games sold on Steam that still have the ... : sinclair4217
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    So, how would we know if the Steam versions will be clean of Starforce without buying / installing / and ... : coyoterys
    • I'm fairly sure UBI stopped using Starforce in the US distributions after a class action lawsuit was file... : sinclair4217

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  :'( I wonder why. : -sk-
  • Because we don't want commies to have fun. : Matt Burris
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  wtf why not Europe, as far as i know the US is going economically bankrupt. the Europeans have more money... : alias_
  • Yes we are all dying of hunger here. It's just like the great depression. Would you like to deposit some ... : SovietOrchestra
• not in australia either. this is getting to be stupid. all we seem to be able to buy is valve games. anyt... : vomitgod
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  Here's a comment about it from http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1444 "I asked Valve’s Doug Lombard... : yobock
  • I think the reason why is that they sign deals with other publishers in those regions that say something ... : mikeon314

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• I will second, third, and fourth this. : FatBaby
• I still mourn the cancellation of BG&E2, seriously BG&E is still one of my favorite console adventure gam... : illwill18

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• but there's game for windows-Live. MS cares :( : grabbie
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  Forget that, i want Valve to make their own OS. : peetabix01
  • Called PipesOS : Matt Burris
  • I'd buy it. Hell, I might even stand in line for it. : jtthe2nd
• i could see steam partnering with gaming pc lines to include steam with some free games bundles. : flasher 907
• Funny, I was just thinking about this exact thing yesterday. Like distribution with Dell's XPS or HP's Bl... : carbontree
• Not much point when the binaries would be out of date by the time the machine was delivered, except to pu... : nudel
• well they are ex-MS employees.. anything could be possible at this point! : ballystix

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  does this come into effect today or soon?? : niceguynick
  • Far Cry and Splinter Cell are up now along with the Assassin's Creed pre-order. : Chris Faylor
  • God's Blessings come into Effect immediately. : SovietOrchestra

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• Nope. : yobock
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  Supposedly the only thing stopping Valve from doing this with more games is that most publishers don't wa... : Schnapple
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    yes, but at this point a large part of the pc community would likely find a key-gen and start exploiting ... : dedgecko
    • Good point, but still seems like the sort of thing that could be enforceable/fixable. Valve wouldn't have... : Schnapple

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• This whole Rick Roll thing wasn't funny to begin with and is completely played out. Please. Stop. : ProdigyXL

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  FileShack has the free version, ad supported, but I only saw ads during load screens. : Matt Burris
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    I'm pretty sure that version only worked for one weekend. I didn't get around to installing it for a week... : Gnowknayme
    • this is correct :( : TheFatMom
• Yeah, I'd rather have a real version tho... : TabsAZ

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• M2. : MrGrindy
• I was thinking the same thing. : Fluffy_Bunny
• I doubt this is a april fool's, since it would not be funny in any way. : mnok
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  No kidding, you don't know what to believe today. : jonin
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    It's not like we loaded up Steam and verified this or anything. : Chris Faylor
    • I did that as well, however the purchase button kept taking me back to the main page for the game. This ... : Fluffy_Bunny

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  Far Cry and Splinter Cell! And a pre-order of Assassin's Creed. : Chris Faylor
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    Is the Splinter Cell executable still protected with Starforce like how BioShock's executable was protect... : RomSteady
    • I have no idea. : Chris Faylor