Guild Wars on Steam

I know, but it treats it as a "Non-Steam Game".

I just feel it would be better to have it fully integrated as a steam game.

xfire--->steam for communicating with friends/showign them what you're playing

I have a feeling that the Steam service for Guild Wars will just be a service where your CD key just gets registered on Steam so it will show up as a native game, and the rest of the game is handled through ArenaNet like usual. In other words, even if you had no Steam activation, you could probably get the same experience by starting up Steam and then adding the launch shortcut as a non-Steam game.

Guild Wars updates every single week if only to change the login message for the weekend event, and sometimes the game is patched several times in an hour (i.e., the kind of patch that says "Please restart your client" afterwards). I seriously doubt that Valve wants to deal with a patch system that comes through so frequently, nor is Steam setup to really handle the streaming update system that Guild Wars uses.

This is just my speculation, and I could be wrong. But it seems unlikely that Valve is going to sign up to host the image data that could change anytime there's a skill balance, special holiday, or message update.

They will probably host the small client download you can also get from anet's website. Which means the majority is downloaded/streamed through anet itself.

1. considering just how BAD Steams update system is [Two worlds and CoH 2GIG "update" anyone]
2. adding the fact that Steam/Valve treats European clients like s**t with their whole monetary exchange BS.
3. and since it really adds nothing to what we already have [Anets client is light and you can access your account from multiple pcs]

Its altogether a bad idea to buy this on Steam IMO.

I have a steam account, I am going to have to remember my account and password though... So this means that Counter-strike, Half-life and guildwars are all rolled up into one program. That's ill-tanks!

Integration is going to be tough though.

It is all about keeping an eye out for the deals. I managed to get the complete Dawn Of War series, excluding 2, for $20. That's 4 games for $5 apiece.

As for GW on Steam, eh it is cool though it doesn't affect me as I have everything you can get at the moment.

STEAM HAS CS SO I IS HAPPYS.
srsly.
steam is a corker.

i heard xfire works better Q_Q
steam is ok, makes me buy games with dollars, 45 euro game is 45 dollar on steam = 35 euro .
only use it for some games, audiosurf and left 4 dead, but i start them with xfire lol

WAIT WHUT 14 dollar GW = 10 euro GW = OW SHIIIIIII z-keys
<--- is happy again
and lol @ gw trailer, if GW2 looks like that i will be happy

And the people who haven't played Portal yet should buy it on the spot. Along with Half-Life 2. And it's expansions. And Team Fortress 2.

orange box FTW, its 20 euro atm in some stores

I don't use it I never dl. I don't buy things online, its not vital if I live perfectly without it.

Its great that GW will be available on Steam now. This will certainly bring some more people to the game.

^Agreed. I don't know how "steam" would help improve my Guild Wars experience, but it'll bring in new players, which is never a bad thing.

I recently bought 'Warhammer: Dawn of War2' which is a good game btw and it came with Steam and games for windows live. Steam asked to create an account and thusfar it seems to be free. Maybe because it was in the price of the warhammer box. I'm new to it so don't know yet.

What sounds interesting is that one can buy with dollars instead of euros from what I understand from a poster above.

Steam doesn't recognise my current GW installation though. So do we need to buy all the gw campaigns again? If so no ty. I will further play gw on my main account I've been using for 4 years then.

Is this one of Anet's tricks to sell more copies again? Just wondering.

No I think this is ANET's way of branching out and trying to reach new audiences. Since they don't have the millions of dollars to waste getting tired out celebrities to sell the game for them :cough: Blizzard :cough: Agreeing to let Steam sell the game seems to be a cheap alternative.

Anyone know if they're gonna add Steam support to Macs? That would help them reach a wider market, too.

what's steam? O_O

Steam? Well... the fella in this Flash animation:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting

States that:
"OMFG STEAM R0X0RS TEH BIG ONE!!!111"

So... It's just something Valve came up with to sell stuff and fight against piracy. Works quite right for them when it comes to online playing.

I've never bothered to even look at steam.. Sounded like garbage to me.