Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is now available on Steam.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is now available on Steam.
Just a heads up to those who might care about such things...
It appears(according to the developers speaking on their own forum) that Atari pushed BG:EE into Steam without Beamdog even knowing. Beamdog doesn't even have the logistics set up to keep the updates synced between steam and their own update manager.(possibly interfering with multiplayer mode). And Also Steam is supposedly taking more than 50% of the profits. The lead designer is currently negotiating with Atari to allow already purchased keys to be unlockable on Steam. Currently people are asking for refunds on their purchase so that they can then buy it from Steam where the devs are losing money.
TL;DR : Developer possibly getting screwed because of steam.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/14626/bgee-was-just-released-on-steam
Good to know. Buy the game where the devs will get the most benefit, people. If you want to see them actually continue this experiment with BG2 and Torment, don't screw them over.
On the flip side, Beamdog is being blamed for stealing community mods like widescreen, adding fluff content to the base game, and introducing just as many bugs as they said they fixed. In effect just repackaging available community fixes and adding a bit of content, and charging $20 for nearly the same game that is on GOG for $5.
Some really strange things going on with this game...
On the flip side, Beamdog is being blamed for stealing community mods like widescreen, adding fluff content to the base game, and introducing just as many bugs as they said they fixed. In effect just repackaging available community fixes and adding a bit of content, and charging $20 for nearly the same game that is on GOG for $5.
Strange they had no clue what Atari was doing... bad management not reading fine print, or a total lack of common sense? Since before release I can't count the number of 'wish it was on Steam' posts, and they (BD) had to have seen them... thought their publisher wouldn't notice?
Confused.
Strange they had no clue what Atari was doing... bad management not reading fine print, or a total lack of common sense?