THQ E-Shop opens in Europe News

Wait.. £39.99 for Metro? I'd expect RF free for that price.

Play has the same deal but for £24.99 (and you get a hard copy)

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/12145888...

With no limitations on number of installs :P

I suppose it's really good news they are all starting to take DD seriously, but having all these different accounts with different publishers is just getting boring. While I use 'em (especially EA as all EA games you can blag a cheap retail and unlock it on the store) as they all offer different deals here and there I do kinda like just it all through Steam TBH.

I'll stick with Steam thanks. I'll keep an eye on things but i can't see myself adopting yet another DD client.

So will they be charging for the 'Librarian pack' then? 0_o yuch.

STEAM.

Didn't Steam have exactly the same offer as this anyway?

I love Steam but I'd be quite happy to use more than one DD service.

But you have to give me a reason to - when your product is more expensive and more restricted than both Steam and retail, what possible reason is there for me to be interested?

Uh EG.. the THQ shop opened in Europe 2 weeks ago...
Also AFAIK games which are available via Steam can be unlocked in Steam using the code provided by the THQ shop

E-Shop?

Cue lots of confused ravers installing it looking to get sorted for their Saturday night.

"'Ere mate, where are the speckled mitzis listed, innit?"

Uh EG.. the THQ shop opened in Europe 2 weeks ago...

Fair enough. Press release trumpeting it's opening arrived today. May have been a soft launch back then.

Also AFAIK games which are available via Steam can be unlocked in Steam using the code provided by the THQ shop

Snazz. That makes sense, given THQ's support of Steam so far. I wonder if that will change.

Thanks for pointing these bits out by the way. I don't ever learn them if you guys don't speak up.

also, for 29.99 you get RFG free on steam anyway with metro 2033

there is absoloutely nooooo advantage of buying from there

except for DoW 2 which was £5 last weekend.

@Bertie;
No worries, go figure they'd press-release after the event heh

We're getting to the point where we could do with a website to find what the cheapest digital download deal is, like Google shopping does for household goods.

Remind me again why I should buy direct from the publisher so cutting out a lot of distribution and retailer costs and yet still have to pay almost twice as much as buying a hard copy from Play for the Dawn of War 2 expansion? They haven't really got the hang of this it seems...

Metro 2033 was available for pre-order on Steam for £29.99 with a free copy of RFG, its now ominously unavailable for purchase in my steam listing!

Same here. I can see it on Steam and it says it unlocks in a week but there's no order button as far as i can tell.

@ xenon_md

Oh yeah, I hope it don't come back 40 notes, I was gonna nab that off Steam instead of buying AC2 :(

Hmm, in other countries, I've only checked sweden, france and usa, its possible to pre order it and get rfg

odd, publishers seem to be doing some funky stuff on steam in the UK atm.

I find it amusing when you get a digital distribution with limited downloads. It's almost like they want you to download it and burn the setup files to dvd or store them on your own drive. Kind of defeats the point a little in my view :)

"I find it amusing when you get a digital distribution with limited downloads"

Agreed. Had personal experience with it during the week from a Music website. Actually bought 2 albums but one kept freezing at the end of the download of the zip, so was corrupt every time. Tried it a few times along with sending them a message. Got an automated response to try it from my Account page where it was also listed. Imagine my surprise when that too froze and then their site announced I'd gone over my allowed number of d/ls (even though as far as I was concerned none completed) so I can't get it now. Still waiting for their Customer "Service" people to get back to me. Idiots.

Last time I use that service. No mention of the limited #downloads unless you bury into their T&Cs as well. Bah!