Steam is Now Supporting Premium DLC

Valve will start letting developers and publishers to offer gamers to download new contents through Steam. This is not something new to gamers, since Microsoft and Sony already have been using this method on their consoles.

This will mean any game you have on Steam, whether you bought the game retail store, online merchants, or Steam- you will be able to use Steam as a one-stop shop for add-ons. 

Although, this is a good idea since gamers don’t need to scour the web to look for the add-ons and updates- it does however, let developers and publishers charge for the updates and add-ons. The first to use this is The Maw, from Twisted Pixel, for which gamers can purchase two new levels for GBP 1.10.

“We’re happy that we can now offer Steam customers significant expansions to the Maw story,” said Twisted Pixel CEO, Michael Wilford, adding: “delivering more Maw directly to gamers while they’re still playing the game.”

It seem like yesterday Valve was the one arguing that if consumers buy the game they should get all the subsequent content as part of that outlay. However, the company’s publishing platform is a discrete but connected entity, and doesn’t tend to discriminate against clients with other ideas about how to do things.

How I miss Team Fortress 2 designer Robin Walker’s  quote on the issue of paying for new maps in the game:

 

You buy the product, you get the content. We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers.

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