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Posted November 26, 2009
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/steam-to-come-pre-installed-on-alienware-pcs/
Damn that's going to give them a lot more exposure, adding a copy of portal is a good business move as a new game will encourage people to use it but as the article says, LOTS of potential for market exposure
Posted November 26, 2009
GOG should do that too. Like they would anyway.
Posted November 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/steam-to-come-pre-installed-on-alienware-pcs/
Damn that's going to give them a lot more exposure, adding a copy of portal is a good business move as a new game will encourage people to use it but as the article says, LOTS of potential for market exposure
title should have read "Dell preinstalls rootkit on all new machines!!"
Posted November 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/steam-to-come-pre-installed-on-alienware-pcs/
Damn that's going to give them a lot more exposure, adding a copy of portal is a good business move as a new game will encourage people to use it but as the article says, LOTS of potential for market exposure
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Weclock: title should have read "Dell preinstalls rootkit on all new machines!!"

Oh come on, we all know you don't like steam, that's fair enough, but let's be real here, steam behaves nothing like a rootkit.
At the very least I can play my steam games with process explorer running.. (with securom you can't)
Posted November 26, 2009
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A-Pock: At the very least I can play my steam games with process explorer running.. (with securom you can't)

Unless the Steam game you are playing uses SecuROM. ;)
Posted November 26, 2009
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A-Pock: At the very least I can play my steam games with process explorer running.. (with securom you can't)
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Arkose: Unless the Steam game you are playing uses SecuROM. ;)

Nevar!!! I don't buy games with 3rd party DRM on steam.
Posted November 26, 2009
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michaelleung: GOG should do that too. Like they would anyway.

Wouldn't work as well for GOGs, there's no real store attachment. With steam the user will see the store tab and sales details and be more likely to use it.
What would be better is for a free game coupon that they have to come to GOG to redeem so they see the full range of games
Posted November 26, 2009
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michaelleung: GOG should do that too. Like they would anyway.
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Aliasalpha: Wouldn't work as well for GOGs, there's no real store attachment. With steam the user will see the store tab and sales details and be more likely to use it.
What would be better is for a free game coupon that they have to come to GOG to redeem so they see the full range of games
or a notice that there are 3 free games available to them
Posted November 26, 2009
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michaelleung: GOG should do that too. Like they would anyway.
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Aliasalpha: Wouldn't work as well for GOGs, there's no real store attachment. With steam the user will see the store tab and sales details and be more likely to use it.
What would be better is for a free game coupon that they have to come to GOG to redeem so they see the full range of games

And gog.com as the default home page.
Posted November 26, 2009
i would not worry too much how many people actually own alienware comps anyway
Posted November 26, 2009
Dell suck!
We blow up Compaq machines at work (rather large, power fireworks inside) but Dell don't even get inside the door...They're the AOL of the PC world :P
Dell+ Steam == Holy SHI-! It's gonna blow!!!
Posted November 26, 2009
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Lone3wolf: We blow up Compaq machines at work

That's one hell of a YouTube video.
Posted November 26, 2009
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Lone3wolf: We blow up Compaq machines at work
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michaelleung: That's one hell of a YouTube video.

Why, yes it is ^_^
Yes, it's blocky/grainy, but it was a cheap 2mp camera.
Piece of the casing hit me in the chest :P Bounced off, didn't hurt. Luckily wasn't too close to it.
Linky
Posted November 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/steam-to-come-pre-installed-on-alienware-pcs/
Damn that's going to give them a lot more exposure, adding a copy of portal is a good business move as a new game will encourage people to use it but as the article says, LOTS of potential for market exposure

They also have a deal with Alienware for the same thing.
Posted November 26, 2009
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Aliasalpha: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/11/steam-to-come-pre-installed-on-alienware-pcs/
Damn that's going to give them a lot more exposure, adding a copy of portal is a good business move as a new game will encourage people to use it but as the article says, LOTS of potential for market exposure
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anjohl: They also have a deal with Alienware for the same thing.

Look a little closer at that link. ;)
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