• Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...

    From Marisag@GAMENET/AMIGAC to All on Tue Oct 22 20:24:07 2019
    Hello! Just a note to let everyone know that Alien Arena is now $0.99 on Steam. Alien Arena is a Mars-themed FPS Arena shooter. You can get more information about the offer at https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaFPS/comments/dkhqxa/alien_arena_price_reduction/ - or https://AlienArena.GamePlayer.club for more general info...

    Looking forward to playing with you!

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  • From HusTler@GAMENET/HAVENS to Marisag on Sun Nov 10 14:53:54 2019
    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: Marisag to All on Tue Oct 22 2019 08:24 pm

    Hello! Just a note to let everyone know that Alien Arena is now $0.99 on Steam. Alien Arena is a Mars-themed FPS Arena shooter. You can get more information about the offer at https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaFPS/comments/dkhqxa/alien_arena_price_reduct

    So Steam is the new Gamestop?? Who competes with Steam??

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  • From Hemo@GAMENET/UJOINT to HusTler on Mon Nov 11 11:04:19 2019
    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: HusTler to Marisag on Sun Nov 10 2019 02:53 pm

    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: Marisag to All on Tue Oct 22 2019 08:24 pm

    Hello! Just a note to let everyone know that Alien Arena is now
    $0.99 on Steam. Alien Arena is a Mars-themed FPS Arena shooter. You
    can get more information about the offer at
    https://www.reddit.com/r/ArenaFPS/comments/dkhqxa/alien_arena_price_
    reduct

    So Steam is the new Gamestop?? Who competes with Steam??


    Not many, but there are some.
    Ubisoft has a digital platform for their own games.
    GOG has a digital platform for all the old- out of publish sort of games, lots of DOS based stuff there.
    Blizzard runs battlenet
    Epic also has a digital platform for their games.
    Origin also, digital platform for their games.

    There are some others, but you might see the pattern.. most of these are publishers running platform for their own publishings.

    Epic and the new Discord Game server might be competition in time, but for now.. I'm not so sure.

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  • From HusTler@GAMENET/HAVENS to Hemo on Tue Nov 12 10:50:27 2019
    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: Hemo to HusTler on Mon Nov 11 2019 11:04 am



    So Steam is the new Gamestop?? Who competes with Steam??


    Not many, but there are some.
    Ubisoft has a digital platform for their own games.
    GOG has a digital platform for all the old- out of publish sort of games,

    So no more rent bring it home, insert game and play right? Even with Steam you have to install the game right? What the deal with the virtual Reality 3D games? I've been a Spectator on Twitch. What are the using to play games?

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  • From Hemo@GAMENET/UJOINT to HusTler on Tue Nov 12 20:32:46 2019
    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: HusTler to Hemo on Tue Nov 12 2019 10:50 am

    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: Hemo to HusTler on Mon Nov 11 2019 11:04 am

    So Steam is the new Gamestop?? Who competes with Steam??

    Not many, but there are some.
    Ubisoft has a digital platform for their own games.
    GOG has a digital platform for all the old- out of publish sort of
    games,

    So no more rent bring it home, insert game and play right? Even with Steam you have to install the game right? What the deal with the virtual Reality 3D games? I've been a Spectator on Twitch. What are the using to play games?

    Well, I was speaking directly to the PC platform. I do recall days of renting a SNES cartridge game and playing for days then returning it. I've never experienced anything like that for PC. Not sure there are any PC games that don't get 'installed' any longer, even if installing just means copying all the files to a folder.

    I don't do VR, rather spend my money on motorcycle stuff. I play PC games
    on a laptop, and that also limits what games I can play because of the video card. I don't do twitch. I sometimes pass time playing solitaire. With real cards. on a real table.

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  • From Marisag@GAMENET/AMIGAC to HusTler on Tue Dec 3 12:40:00 2019
    Re: Alien Arena now just $0.99 on Steam...
    By: HusTler to Hemo on Tue Nov 12 2019 10:50:27

    So Steam is the new Gamestop?? Who competes with Steam??

    There is also GameFly if you want to rent unlimited games per month for like $0.70 a day...

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