GTA IV Available for Pre-Purchase On Steam, Comes with Vice City for Free

TheIneffableBob - 384 days 18 hours ago

It gives people an incentive to pre-order.

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dxmnecro - 384 days 18 hours ago

Oh of course, that's pretty awesome if you ask me. I wish more companies did this without making them into more expensive box sets.

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Charmers - 384 days 17 hours ago

Pricing is a bit whack, it's $39.99 which at current conversion rates makes the game close to £30 when VAT is added on. I can get a boxed copy of GTA 4 from a shop for £24.99. I think steam needs to start getting a bit more competitive if it wants to grow.

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TheIneffableBob - 384 days 14 hours ago

Unfortunately, Valve does not decide the price. The publisher of the game does. It seems that digital games by big-name publishers tend to not convert well from its USD price to foreign dollars compared to retail stores. And unfortunately, I don't think that will change at least for another year or two until digital distribution becomes more popular.

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Charmers - 384 days 17 hours ago

The steam service caters for a certain type of consumer, clearly you are not that type. I personally prefer to buy all my games from steam the mere fact I do not need a dvd in the drive to play single player AND multi player makes the service invaluable.

I am not saying steam is a perfect service, I think the pricing at times sucks (mostly not their fault) and they can be tardy on meeting the release dates for everywhere outside the US. However those issues aside I really do not miss the plastic disc that people keep raving about.

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Bob Dole - 384 days 14 hours ago

It's also for lazy people who don't wanna leave their lair to go outside into teh sunlight. *hiss!~*

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Charmers - 384 days 13 hours ago

It's the middle of winter here, if you see the sun feel free to point it out to me because I haven't seen it for days. Besides if I have a choice of downloading legally or having to wade through a group of acne infested brats begging their mommy to buy them Generic Beat em up/slash em up/platform em up 2000 then I will take the digital download route every time.

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