Arma 3 to be Steam exclusive
Arma 3 is Steam-exclusive, Bohemia Interactive has announced. Without this move, project lead Joris-Jan van't Land says "there was a very real chance there would be no Arma 3 this year."
Arma 3 will be exclusive to Steam, according to project lead Joris-Jan van't Land. He says that the goal as set by the Bohemia Interactive CEO is to release the game in 2013, and feels that "without going Steam-exclusive, we would not be able to release Arma 3 in 2013."
In a lengthy dev blog post, van't Land says that the Steam DRM and distribution network will help the company, while touting features like automatic patching to make the experience smoother for players. You'll need to run the game through Steam, but it will support an Offline mode. The post also notes that boxed copies will be available in most regions, but they'll simply be Steam codes in a retail package or possibly contain data to speed up the installation. Finally, van't Land suggests "there was a very real chance there would be no Arma 3 this year" without the Steam support, so even without the features he feels it's worthwhile to hit their goal.
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Arma 3 is Steam-exclusive, Bohemia Interactive has announced. Without this move, project lead Joris-Jan van't Land says "there was a very real chance there would be no Arma 3 this year."-
It seems like a good move to me.
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Steam workshop support please, Bohemia.
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Make sure to create a new account and only have this game in that account. That way you can give to a friend once you are done with the game, since Steam does not allow you to transfer games to someone else when you no longer have a use for it. Good way to get around the "renting" format.
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You're why we can't have nice things.
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More like NOCster imho
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How do you feel about Origin? Or U-Play?
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Now you've done it.
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it's his favwit
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Learn more useful tips at http://locstergaming.povertyblog.com !
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I have heard of people doing this and just selling the account to it can be like a used game. poor people
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ok ok guys you can make fun of him without poorshaming! Come on!
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Another handy tip is to recycle your grocery bags as trash bags for your smaller waste cans such as those found in bathrooms or under a sink!
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When your dish soap gets low, fill the rest of the bottle up with water and shake it. Instant savings.
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Instead of shelling out cash for a pricy vase, make your own out of a glass bottle and some enamel paint.
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Milk jugs, scissors, and Elmer's Glue will make the same thing for the more budget conscious among us.
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Can't afford a helmet for the brand new bike you found? Simply tie two shoelaces together and wrap them around a hollowed out tortoise shell.
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The wire wraps from a loaf of bread make excellent pipe cleaners for your weed pipes.
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How do you clean pipes with these?? http://www.growrite.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bread-tag-300x225.jpg
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First you learn to read.
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How can we all be expected to learn to read if we can't afford books?
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Great. Now how am I going to disinfect the insides of all of these tortoise shells?
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Pshhhh, my car doesn't require such antiquated technology as a gas cap.
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the archvile character account?
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Oh honey.
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Also who the hell would 'rent' an Arma game. Has to be one of the least 'rentable' games out there.
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It would suck if you had to enter your command line options into steam before launching every time. But I don't think that will happen. Hopefully the servers will pass the running mod list to the client like most games do. Failing that, they could make the mod list a text file or something instead of on the command line so 3rd party launchers could still modify it on the fly. Or a dozen other implementations I'm sure.
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You can edit game profiles in Steam to always pass command line options. You can also make windows shortcuts and add command line options to those too! Not the web style steam:// shortcuts that the steam client makes for you mind; you need to make a shortcut to steam.exe and use -applaunch <app id> followed by the options you want.
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ahahaha aw yes
