Wednesday, April 15, 2009

World of Goo & Tomb Raider Anniversary with Steam

For Windows Only
Recently I Installed Steam (Valve Software/half life/half life 2), you can install it freely, register an account and buy game online (no hardcopies offcourse, though I'm not not sure whether any DRM attached).
At First I bought World of Goo for $4.99, a game that I've played before through 'pirate channel'. Downloaded 70MB through 384kbps broadband and straighly playable, it was quite fast. I am so happy that finally I play it legally. On the next month I receive bill from my CC, Rp.60k something, It's the same amount that I should pay for buying a pirated game at Glodok (yes, it's a little more expensive). But then I have the original copy minus the media (CD/DVD)
On the same month came Tomb Raider Anniversary at $5.00 (discounted price from $20). I never play this version before but I did finish the original DOS game (with Lara and her two 'cones' :-D), so I want to have this one (talk about impulse buying...). So I did. To download is another problem. It took approx. 24 hour for me to do it. Soon I was playing it for hours an got other family member envy, so they also played the game. Overall's great for the price.

At Linux part
I also install Steam through playonlinux (it install a compatible version of Wine to run Steam). Alas, seems that Steam they won't let me do that, The installed Steam won't run at all in my Elyssa, so I quickly remove it. I remember when I play the pirated World of Goo, I can run it from Wine. Browsed to my Steam copy of World of Goo, no luck, I cannot run it. So for Linux, Steam is not a gaming solution right now, sigh... May be we can have a petition to Run Steam in Linux or more (cheap) Games on Linux.

PS: As I already buy World of Goo for Steam/Windows I wonder if I can have a copy of it for Linux (Already played the .deb packed of the demo). Maybe I can ask the publisher (2d boys) later...