World of Goo, the award-winning, highly acclaimed indie goo-based building game, is coming to Steam next week.
I preordered this direct from the creators a couple weeks ago and have been playing and enjoying it, but I was a bit miffed to hear it would appear on Steam with achievements and auto-updates. Was I gonna miss out because I’d already purchased the game? Happily, others shared my concerns and the developers are working with Valve to allow people who have already purchased the game to activate it on Steam (despite it being DRM free and thus containing no CD codes). Great news! (I learned about this on Tom’s blog.)
I haven’t finished World of Goo yet, but when I do I’ll talk about it a bit more. It will be available over Steam on October 13.
41 responses so far ↓
1 Dzamir // Oct 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I’m very happy that I can activate on steam my preordere copy! :D Yeaah ! :D
2 Pentadact // Oct 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Nice tag.
3 David // Oct 10, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Sweet! I was also annoyed that they announced it on Steam *after* I went to all the trouble of pre-ordering it. I’m really pleased that the guys at 2DBoy are cool with getting the keys transferred.
4 Koslov // Oct 10, 2008 at 4:18 pm
@David:
ditto.
But either way, Its still worth purchasing.
5 Kowl Slaw // Oct 10, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Oh…should I get it?
6 The MAZZTer // Oct 10, 2008 at 5:56 pm
“Happily, others shared my concerns and the developers are working with Valve to allow people who have already purchased the game to activate it on Steam (despite it being DRM free and thus containing no CD codes). Great news! (I learned about this on Tom’s blog.)”
I wish Penny Arcade would do this. I felt the same way about On the Rainslick Episode 1.
7 Ledundead // Oct 10, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Who updated this? Surely it was a fiercesome masked man of sorts!
8 jzimbert // Oct 10, 2008 at 9:42 pm
See, this is why today’s world sucks (except in this particular instance). “You paid 11 bucks to see this movie in the theater? Well you’ll have to buy the DVD if you want to see the ALTERNATE ENDING.” “Hey, remember when you paid $20 for the DVD of that one movie? Time to pony up another 20 for the SPECIAL EDITION! Now with 400% more ALTERNATE ENDINGS!”
9 Das Ganon // Oct 11, 2008 at 12:10 am
@6
Yup, did that too. Still didn’t kill the silent one either. got there, but never pulled it off.
10 Smurfy // Oct 11, 2008 at 3:34 am
Indie devs are always happier to do achievements and activations and stuff. Too bad the big companies don’t.
11 Killa-Ewok // Oct 11, 2008 at 7:03 am
Who is the mysterious blog updater? Shall we ever find out? Will the whole world have to live in a state of ignorance? Am I bored? Find out in the next exciting blog update of…
1fort crap!
12 n00bie51 // Oct 11, 2008 at 7:32 am
Didn’t World of Goo just start off as a tech-demo-ish kinda toy to mess around with, where all you could do originally was just build one tower?
13 MadTinkerer // Oct 11, 2008 at 1:19 pm
“despite it being DRM free and thus containing no CD codes”
If you pre-ordered, you got a “magic key” code that unlocked the pre-order 1 chapter demo. That’s what they’re going to use for Steam.
noobie: Yes, they started off with that and have made a full game out of it. Just like Braid and Portal.
14 Gothic // Oct 12, 2008 at 4:43 am
I love Google ads.
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And they never picked up on the fact that this is a gaming blog.
15 Kowl Slaw // Oct 12, 2008 at 7:06 am
This is a gaming blog???????
16 Unconcerned Sam // Oct 12, 2008 at 9:16 am
Christ. That might explain a few things….
17 Deadly_Dragon // Oct 12, 2008 at 9:19 am
@14
lol, how about this one:
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At least they picked up some key words.
18 Jimbo // Oct 12, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Monkey Chow brand Monkey Chow?
19 Das Ganon // Oct 12, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Gordon’s Valves on sale
Pipe Mania
Steam pipe insulation
How to pirate the orange box…..
Why Unreal is better than Halo
——————
Man, google DOES suck at this.
20 Sinister Minister // Oct 12, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Lol, how about this?:
“Gorton Valves on Sale”
I’d say that’s the best one yet that doesn’t directly reference a game.
21 Sinister Minister // Oct 12, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Actually, nevermind:
“Valve Software
Streamline your valve sales. Size, configure, price, and quote online!”
22 Cpt. Falcon // Oct 12, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Captain Falcon F-Zero Port Town Aero Drive Mute City Falcon Punch Falcon Kick Falcon Dive Raptor Boost Blue Falcon Super Smash Brothers Melee Brawl
Also, Chris, you should post a review of each of the mods that were released over steam.
Especially Synergy, i’ve liked that game for a long time.
23 Nyarlathotep // Oct 13, 2008 at 5:59 am
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…. lol
24 Killa-Ewok // Oct 13, 2008 at 8:04 am
Cpt.Falcon, I just had a four-hour session of Synergy, in which we played through Episode 2.
GOOD TIMES
25 Kowl Slaw // Oct 13, 2008 at 9:58 am
Steam News
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O.o
26 Bobic // Oct 13, 2008 at 10:54 am
Anyone download the beta of it? The music is AWESOME.
27 Bobic // Oct 13, 2008 at 10:57 am
@24 Synergy is a bad mod. I thought the zombie one was way too unbalanced, the car one was stupid, and I haven’t tried age of chivalry yet. WHY NOT MINERVA??
28 Kowl Slaw // Oct 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I think they might of been trying to get some full conversions in, not just single player mods with the same weapons and stuff. You know, different stuff.
29 Killa-Ewok // Oct 13, 2008 at 1:57 pm
@27
A bad mod? A buggy one, yes, but not a bad one.
30 Bobic // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I just thought that it was bad because all that they added was some (buggy) co-op support and a handful of underwhelming maps. Also I think a mod is bad if its buggy..
And @28 you’re right, but I WANT MINERVA WITHOUT EP1
31 Bobic // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:16 pm
CHRIS POST ABOUT THIS!! GAMING SITES OVERRUN WITH MALE ENHANCEMENT ADS!!
NO THANKS, VIMAX, I’LL PASS
32 Sinister Minister // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:18 pm
@Bobic: Uhh, they hired Adam Foster, they guy who made MINERVA. I think that speaks for itself as to what Valve thinks of it.
33 Kowl Slaw // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Sounds like a good mod…I looked into it before, but never downloaded it….and it looked pretty cool.
34 Killa-Ewok // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Synergy also made different stuff for the games, for instance, in EP2, you get a partyvan for the rest of the guys to go when you get the jalopy
35 Killa-Ewok // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:30 pm
ALSO CHRIS
UPDATE
WE NEED UPDATES
CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT UPDATES
NEED…
UPDATES…
36 Mike // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Nondrick plz
37 Cpt. Falcon // Oct 13, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Chris! People are taking opposite stances on issues! We cannot resolve this conflict! Divine intervention is required to pass final judgement on the mod named SYNERGY.
Please keep in mind that Synergy OB was recently released, and they’re working hard on updates to fix many bugs and glitches. If you could take a look at Synergy1.1, it ran very well with hardly any bugs. OB was a step in a new direction, quite a big step actually, and so a lot of new bugs were presented.
38 Kowl Slaw // Oct 13, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Would a new blog post be in the category of divine intervention?
39 The Pants Were Dead // Oct 13, 2008 at 7:09 pm
More along the lines of natural disaster…
40 Bobic // Oct 13, 2008 at 7:39 pm
An odd thing that I noticed with synergy is that, while I don’t have Half-Life 2, With synergy I could play it. WTF??
41 Killa-Ewok // Oct 14, 2008 at 1:04 am
Bobic, I think you have Deathmatch, GMod, or the Half-Life 2 demo.
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