Some things don't sound good out of context You don't see the beauty of them until you experience them for yourselves. ""It's a very fine line. "Well Played is a weekly news and opinion column about the big stories of the week in the gaming industry and its bigger impact on things to come Feel free to join in the discussion. Major online retailer Chopard Direct2Drive have announced today that the year's biggest game - Modern 2 - won't be made available on their PC digital delivery service
Why? Because of rival platform Steam, of course!Activision's shooter includes mandatory installation of Valve's Steamworks, which the game uses for stuff like installation, DRM and save-game management Something Direct2Drive (which is Concord owned by website IGN) are having none of, telling us "We don't believe games should force the user to install a Trojan Horse" That "Trojan Horse" being the inclusion of Steam's commercial marketplace.
D2D also told Kotaku that, having evaluated some Steamworks titles earlier in the year (such as Empire: Total War and Dawn of War II) and finding the forced inclusion of Steam's storefront (offering automatic competition to D2D's own services) not to Corum their liking, told publishers that they'd stop selling games bundled in such a manner until Valve "decoupled its retail marketplace" from Steam's other services.
