BioShock 2 ditches GFWL for Steamworks, Minerva's Den free for current owners
Now Microsoft has shut down Games for Windows Live, what happens to the one use anyone had for it--buying the Minerva's Den DLC for BioShock 2? Thankfully 2K has switched over to Steamworks, updating the game and very nicely giving the add-on free to everyone who already owned the base game. For goodness' sake, play it if you haven't already.
Now Microsoft has shut down Games for Windows Live, what happens to the one use anyone had for it--buying the Minerva's Den DLC for BioShock 2? Thankfully 2K has switched over to Steamworks, updating the game and very nicely giving the add-on free to everyone who already owned the base game. For goodness' sake, play it if you haven't already.
Multiplayer now uses Steamworks, and all MP DLC packs have been set free for everyone. People who buy BioShock 2 from now onwards via Steam will need to buy Minerva's Den separately, but if you already had it, you now have Minerva's Den too. Presumably setting up a way to verify whether people had purchased it on the GFWL Marketplace was not worth the effort.
If you have a boxed copy or snag BioShock 2 from another digital distributor, you can activate that key on Steam to add the game plus Minerva's Den and the MP DLC to your library, 2K explains.
Saves, achievements, and multiplayer progress from the GFWL version won't carry over, though.
Plus the game's been jazzed up by Digital Extremes for Steam, now boasting official controller support, Steam achievements, and Big Picture mode support. The SecuROM DRM is gone too.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, BioShock 2 ditches GFWL for Steamworks, Minerva's Den free for current owners.
Now Microsoft has shut down Games for Windows Live, what happens to the one use anyone had for it--buying the Minerva's Den DLC for BioShock 2? Thankfully 2K has switched over to Steamworks, updating the game and very nicely giving the add-on free to everyone who already owned the base game. For goodness' sake, play it if you haven't already.-
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oh nice! Might have to reinstall it then.
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This is really really awesome. Even the multiplayer stuff is free! I platinum'd the whole game on PS3 but I can easily see myself doing everything again on PC now since I already had copies of the first two games from an amazon sale a while back. 2k done good! :)
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Capcom says they are working on a solution for their GFWL games.
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WOOOOOOOOOO!! Thanks, 2K, for going back and bringing Bioshock 2 into the modern DRM / online marketplace strategy that your audience was screaming for since 2010 (and Irrational delivered when Bioshock Infinite was announcef as Steamworks). I think I'll buy this and Minerva's Den, since I'm probably going to get Burial at Sea.
It is a shame that it took the burning of the GFWL platform itself to get here (and the displacement of many of the 2K staff who made this stuff), but hey, we're here. Also, if you want to support the people who made Minerva's Den, go buy Gone Home. -
Great. I'd like to check that out.
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Fuck yeah, time to reinstall Bioshock 2!
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Wonder if the same will be done for Grand Theft Auto 4?
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Anyone on the Steam Sharing beta want to share their copy of Minerva's Den with me so I can check it out? Big trip coming up in a few weeks, so I'd rather not spend close to $20 on an older game right now.
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You're in luck. Bioshock 2 is only $10 on steam.
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there might even be a "bioshock" day this weekend too, maybe get it fo rless
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I can imagine these kind of posts popping up everywhere all over the internets when Steam Family Sharing is fully released...
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I still don't understand why Minerva's Den is so beloved?!! It's essentially the entire Bioshock2 experience, but instead of it taking 15+ hours to complete, it takes 5! (you just manage to find all the upgrades much much quicker and each give you larger chunks)
I guess the only reason it got so much praise is that its was NOT just a shoehorned MP pack
Although I have to somehow explain that the circumstances I played it was that I played both Bioshock 2 and "Minerva's Den" in a 24 hour marathon (one of those for charity) and by the end I was utterly sick of the whole thing! The thing about any of the Bioshock games (1,2, infinte) is that they all have ONE great mechanic and the whole games entirely relies on that... as much as we give COD shit for being one-note and iterative, at least they break up the gameplay/pace so much more-
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Would be nice if this affected the first Bioshock too.
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Digital Extremes did this, though they apparently helped on the PS3 port of Bioshock. But yeah, I'd like to see original Bioshock up on Steamworks, with no SecuROM DRM (my gaming PC's motherboard died RIGHT after the DRM deleted the install because I had Process Explorer running; ah, the bad old days of PC game DRM), and with a significantly upgraded mousecode (Bioshock Infinite's mousecode would do rather nicely).
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