City of Heroes Steams ahead! ~Discussion~

Please use this thread to discuss the recent announcement.

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Very nice, this has been an impressive month for the team.
And I believe this might be the first time I can remember CoX being mentioned in the same press release with Guild Wars and Lineage.
Nemesis plot? ;]

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Tanker Fun

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Oh good, an official discussion.

Can someone please reassure me that this is not going to become the only way to play and update City of Heroes?

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I'm scared of getting steamed.

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Oh good, an official discussion.

Can someone please reassure me that this is not going to become the only way to play and update City of Heroes?

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It's not. Don't worry. All the people who got the Orange Box for PC don't have to use it either. It's just helpful for seeing if friends are playing.

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You know who else is fond of steam power?

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That blue thing running around saying "Cookies are sometimes food" is Praetorian Cookie Monster!
Shoot on sight, please.

Awesome news. I dont STEAM myself, but know a lot of folks who seem to use it almost exclusively.

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@Catwhoorg "Rule of Three - Finale" Arc# 1984
@Mr Falkland Islands"A Nation Goes Rogue" Arc# 2369 "Toasters and Pop Tarts" Arc#116617

not to keep this going but i use steam for left 4 dead..but whats the purpose of it here?


is it optional or you making it needed to run ?


whats the actual purpose and motivation for using steam here?

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I have Steam already. And, obviously, CoX. Any idea if there will be a way to link the two together, so my friends can see when I'm playing?

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You're an odd man Skinner, but you make a good steamed ham.

When is the OnLive Announcement coming?

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I've been able to use Steam to launch CoH for some time now. Steam can launch other applications other than the ones it has downloaded.

This just makes it a bit more official I guess...

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Arc #345863 - When The Bough Breaks
"Curse you Perry the Plata...wait, is that Love Handel?" - Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb

Hey, more visibility with a rather popular download/online store site. I've got quite a bit of Steam apps. (Picked up most of the Dawn of War series there, Saints Row 2, L4D, the orange box, Bioshock...)

Glad to see it.

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not to keep this going but i use steam for left 4 dead..but whats the purpose of it here?


is it optional or you making it needed to run ?


whats the actual purpose and motivation for using steam here?

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Goddamnit.

You. Don't. Have. To. [censored]. Use. Steam. To. Run. CoX.

And the reason they're doing it is because Steam is great publicity.

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Hey, more visibility with a rather popular download/online store site.

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Exactly. Someone gave their marketing team caffeine drops or something, cuz they've been on a fair roll the last six months. Good job, CoMarketers!

(And yeah, it'll help for finding out what your Steam friends are up to. )

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So...

Who's starting the official Steam group, Niviene?

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So...

Who's starting the official Steam group, Niviene?

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Nemesis Plot.

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So...

Who's starting the official Steam group, Niviene?

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Nemesis Plot.

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Son, if the official group was started with the profile "Lord Nemesis", I'd be epic.

"It IS a Nemesis plot!! ...and he's online right now in L4D!!"

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So...

Who's starting the official Steam group, Niviene?

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Nemesis Plot.

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Son, if the official group was started with the profile "Lord Nemesis", I'd be epic.

"It IS a Nemesis plot!! ...and he's online right now in L4D!!"

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No, I mean, that's the group.

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Hm. That could be an unofficial group, sure. I dunno, could "Nemesis Plot(tm)" pass general scrutiny for official hosting on Steam?... It's a great in-joke, but wouldn't benefit new Steam players trying out the game....

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not to keep this going but i use steam for left 4 dead..but whats the purpose of it here?


is it optional or you making it needed to run ?


whats the actual purpose and motivation for using steam here?

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Goddamnit.

You. Don't. Have. To. [censored]. Use. Steam. To. Run. CoX.

And the reason they're doing it is because Steam is great publicity.

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*nod*

More visible, and with an online store (that has other high profile games on it, as well,) more of a chance for an impulse purchase - especially at the twenty dollar price point.

Though, Niv and crew, you may want to (a) update the manuals and (b) have them fix the link in the Steam window to get them... tis broken at the moment.

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Please use this thread to discuss the recent <a href="/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13368502" target="_blank">announcement</a>.

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Does this mean that we can actually have an alternative to the Updater to get the new patch ? I normally don't like Steam but I have to admit their Patching technology would be very helpful for COH

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Sounds great! Being on Steam might attract some folks who wouldn't otherwise give the game a shot.

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Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."

What in the great-googly-moogly is Steam?

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Make a man a fire and keep him warm for the day, SET a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Incarnates: K'lir(Fire/Dark Corr):Hot-House Flower(Plant/Fire Dom):Kinrad X(Kin/Rad Def):Itsy-Bitsy Spider(Crab):Two Ton Tony(Mace/WP Broot):Teeny Weeny Widow(Fortunata/Widow) : Zeroth Law (Ice/Fire Tank)

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What in the great-googly-moogly is Steam?

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Quick answer:
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Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of the world's most popular games. Steam is set apart from its peers in terms of functionality primarily by its residency in the system tray, and the desktop tasks that the client software performs to make use of that position.

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Steam's About page

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Interesting read, thanks. Apparently I am very very old.

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Make a man a fire and keep him warm for the day, SET a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Incarnates: K'lir(Fire/Dark Corr):Hot-House Flower(Plant/Fire Dom):Kinrad X(Kin/Rad Def):Itsy-Bitsy Spider(Crab):Two Ton Tony(Mace/WP Broot):Teeny Weeny Widow(Fortunata/Widow) : Zeroth Law (Ice/Fire Tank)