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Shack Staff posted a new article,
GameFly acquires PC digital distributor Direct2Drive
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Shacknews parent company GameFly announced that it has acquired PC game digital distributor Direct2Drive from IGN Entertainment.
May 25, 2011 6:00am PDT
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Shack Staff posted a new article,
GameFly acquires PC digital distributor Direct2Drive
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Shacknews parent company GameFly announced that it has acquired PC game digital distributor Direct2Drive from IGN Entertainment.
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now steam just needs to buy gamefly..... oh wait
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NukemForever
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How long before Steam talk is banned?
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sukabljat
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Speaking in an unofficial capacity, I'll say that the death of our Sun and the theoretical eventual Big C...
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Alice O'Connor
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The sun isn't important. WTF are you talking about?
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razlebol
The collapse of the universe maaaaan!
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Topsiderover
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Confirmed: Gamefly to cause death of our sun unless Chatty is immediately cleansed of Steam
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Hemtroll
LOL, nice.
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Super Sparker
So...October?
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Arcanum
hahaha you are brilliant
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GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
What is this "Sun" you speak of?
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DerHuhnTeufel
Right NOW.
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Nitrium
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They are also going to nuke all posts that contain the word "Steam".
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Nitrium
can we still say "water vapor"?
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TheRealBigDumbass
Oh you know its coming, you just know :)
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sonicbrewz
RIP
sukabljat
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Chipwarrior
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Now. You're banned. The apples, how do you like them? The worst part of the internet is that there's l...
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geedeck
I weep for humanity. BUCKETS OF WEEPING!
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Ebu
There's plenty of crazy in the shacker hive mind to give this idea legs.
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ihya
We should stress-test it.
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Jobos
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never! Steam is the best and D2D sucks so much that
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mikecyb
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RIP cybernetic michael. Banned mid-sentence. :(
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Cheeziologist
He was a mod too, oh the humanity!!!
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Dontdrop
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I was going to make. Witty comment along the lines of "is this why my posts about how great steam is are ...
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re-verse
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lololol did you hear the one about internet censorship!!!!
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yoonix
In Conservative America, Internet censors you!
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Topsiderover
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very nice now lets see some d2d discounts for Mercury :D
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yoonix
Never gonna happen. I really should cancel Mercury, it's worthless these days. :(
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node
This isn't a bad thing since IGN's days are numbered. However I have a ton of stuff on D2D I haven't play...
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baron calamity
Woaaaaaaaaah!
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Creepin_Jeezus
Cool. Lots of opportunity to make it a helluva lot better
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ctlaltl33t
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Cool, incoming chatty member only super discounts!!! WOOOO!!
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Dschinghis Khan
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Every time we have to nuke a post it adds 5% to your orders. A 30 minute ban adds 20%, an week get 50, an...
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Rauol Duke
Hahaha, if this is true it would be awesome.
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Dschinghis Khan
Might as well just move to Australia then!
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pancake humper
i presume naked pics of women get us discounts?
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deadfish
Whoa, this is BIG NEWS.
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The Grolar Bear
Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
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StolenNosferatu
That is crazy. Any Mercury discounts? *cough*
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limpossible
It is nice that they are reaching out to the PC gamers among us
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dognose
I have a question: Since my Direct2drive log in is my ign log in, am i going to have any issues when the ...
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baron calamity
Does this mean that GameFly will start having PC game news?
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Jobos
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the problem right now with pc game rental is the amount of games that need serial codes to be playable an...
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JuffoWup
That sir, is some quality thinking. Maybe Gaikai instead of Online? Gaikai added some pretty famous gamin...
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TheWeaponeer
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Bigger news: IGN acquires minority stake in GameFly, board of directors seat.
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the archvile
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interesting...
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GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
Also remember that IGN recently bought up UGO. Remember UGO? The "Save the Shack!" days?
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the archvile
Wuuuuuugh.
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Creepin_Jeezus
Hooray, McGriddles Shack incoming!
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guido anchovy
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link to release or anything? This is troubling :/
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pancake humper
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How is that troubling? That's pretty common in purchases.
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Deathlove
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McIGN.jpg
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Merconium
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It's a minority share and a board of director's seat. They didn't cede creative control.
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Deathlove
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Not yet... Consider other acquisition ventures by IGN and News Corporation.
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the archvile
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do you ever even
try
to consider the bright side of things? :(
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Degenerate
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"It's not safe to hope for the best without preparing for the worst." As a general rule, the things I ...
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the archvile
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I can understand that rule but you almost always seem to take the negative side of things. Try looking fo...
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Degenerate
Sorry, I've been backstabbed too many times to do that anymore. Most good things in my life are a result...
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the archvile
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You never do that unless you have big plans in the future. Come on.
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pancake humper
Jon Rubenstein joined Amazon's board a few months ago. IS HP TAKING OVER AMAZON?!
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Deathlove
not like the shack hasn't been all whored up for Shogun 2 or anything like that
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RikiTiki2
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it says it in the shacknews article
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Degenerate
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can't read the articles in WinChatty :(
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pancake humper
look how terrible you are
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Degenerate
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so by the chatty theory above, this means that all negative mention of FoxNews is now bannable
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Cheeziologist
I'm looking forward to the Page 3 girls of The Sun doing columns.
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Jonathan
woohoo, sigs incoming.
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shirif
That is bad news.
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bozer
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i would like to be able to get my gamefly loyalty discout and rewards applied to d2d purchases.
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RetroRedEyeJr
This would be sweet.
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sigpro
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Is Gamefly still doing their IPO? I haven't heard anything about it in a fairly long time.
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Jonathan
yeah, it would be a good time to do it now since tech seems to be massively overvalued lately
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itsjames
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/TROLL MODE ON This Is an interesting development here. This place has been pro-Steam (and that is me ...
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TheWeaponeer
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What the fuck are you going on about? Seriously what is this post?
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yoonix
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Yeah I read it, got a confused look on my face, and moved on to another post.
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Evil Benius
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You have to savor these frontpage posts, I can't believe I was missing these before nuShack!
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askedrelic
Thank you haiku for bringing these posts to us.
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RetroRedEyeJr
GAMEFLY IS A CONSPIRACY!!! *NINJA VANISH*
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askedrelic
Stopped caring at "Dead Rising 2" , Stopped reading at "Hats".
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watcherxp
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight does nobody screen these posts?
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deject
Stop reading at pro-Steam. Please go kill self.
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Dschinghis Khan
Eh? Why rent for a couple of days at $5 what I can own outright (via Steam's crazy sales) for nearly the...
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Topsiderover
Um. What?
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happynoodle
pretty sure we are gonna keep on jacking off valve here
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crummynz
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I think he's talking about me! Which is hilarious.
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XAVdeMATOS
You have a fan!
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dumb.
i have no idea what's going on xav :( i'm sorry.
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dahanese
oh it's you
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ETPC1
Herp a derp dude, herp a derp.
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Ormsbee
Yep! Issues with Bulletstorm demo on PC, when it was already available on consoles - http://www.shackn...
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XAVdeMATOS
Why pay $5 for something you can not resell when that same $5 (or $3/2 rentals for $5) might let you rent
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Schnapple
Dont forget to wipe!
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VegasX
I feel like you could have posted this in any other thread and it would have made just as much sense.
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The Grolar Bear
If you can rent or buy the same game for $5, why in the fuck would you not just buy it?
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Crabs Jarrard
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What the fuck? http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=25964788#itemanchor_25964788
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nevlos
lol wut
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Mr. Goodwrench
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everyone is inconsistent about demos here. Some games have to have one, otherwise are instant buys. I d...
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ibrokn
Some games pretty much you know what is coming with a solid developer pedigree
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watcherxp
http://i43.tinypic.com/qnl74o.gif
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thetangent
So here's Batman, where's Robin (
loganscar
)?
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MeestaNob
Old news http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=25933458#itemanchor_25933458
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capt tripps
Who didn't see this coming. Publishers are going to kill game rentals with unlock codes in the coming ye...
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pigvomit
I hope we still get the "Shack PSA - Weekend Digital PC Deals" posts, I LOVE those!!!
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MikkleThePickle
Interesting....:)
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Lightzout
huh. this should be interesting to say the least.
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ETPC1
hopefully the service doesn't go down the pooper.
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sebe@speakeasy.net
this is exactly what news corporation wants ,... an observer , which is a SPY there's no good attack ...
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RuskiSnajper