Black Ops getting full steam support!

[RavenSEAL]

Oct 22, 2010- Valve and Activision Publishing, Inc today announced the upcoming holiday blockbuster, Call of Duty®: Black Ops (PC), is now available for pre-purchase via Steam, a leading platform for PC and Mac games with over 30 million accounts around the world.

Those who pre-purchase Call of Duty: Black Ops on Steam will be able to start playing immediately upon release on November 9, 2010, when Activision expects the title will be available worldwide. Developed by Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops utilizes the Steamworks suite of tools. The title is rated "M" (Mature - Blood, Drug, Reference, Intense Violence and Language) by the ESRB.

In addition to leveraging Steamworks' Auto-Updating, Achievements, and more, Call of Duty: Black Ops will support Steamworks Cloud technology. The PC version of the product will be powered with Steamworks for both the digital and tangible versions of the game and, as with all Steamworks titles, offline play will also be supported.

"We are delighted to be delivering the year's most anticipated title with Black Ops to PC gamers around the world," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "We've collaborated with the development team to leverage the Steamworks suite of services to deliver the highest level of service to Call of Duty: Black Ops PC customers."

"Steam has been a great partner throughout development of Black Ops," said Mark Lamia, president of Treyarch. "We're working closely together to take full advantage of Steamworks to ensure we deliver the most polished and secure PC experience that our community deserves."

Call of Duty: Black Ops is slated for worldwide release the week of November 9 at retailers and via Steam. For additional Call of Duty updates, visit www.callofduty.com/blackops and also via Twitter @JD_2020.

Steamworks is a complete suite of publishing and development tools -- ranging from product key authentication to social networking services -- offered free of charge to publishers and developers. For more information, please visit

Good news for the PC buyers!

http://store.steampowered.com/news/4531/

 

[Elcs]

Shame the price is extortionate compared to other e-tailers.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Shame the price is extortionate compared to other e-tailers.

You can still purchase the retail version cheaper, it's just that the game itself will run around steam, therefore you will need to install steam to play either retail or eRetail versions of the game.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

This is a useless announcement. It says nothing about using Steam for matchmaking or anything useful like that. This is all because Steam seems to be the only platform successful at preventing 0-day releases.

 

[pontifex]

Shame the price is extortionate compared to other e-tailers.

what e-tailers have the game for less than 59.99 right now?

 

[RavenSEAL]

what e-tailers have the game for less than 59.99 right now?

amazon had it for like $55 w/ $20 credit a while back.

 

[Elcs]

what e-tailers have the game for less than 59.99 right now?

As I'm from the UK and not too interested in dollars... Steam has it for £39.99 and Amazon UK has it for £29.99

However as I am also nice Amazon US has it for $54.44

 

[911paramedic]

I'm guessing there aren't going to be many deals or discounts this close to launch.

 

[pcmax]

Good news for the PC buyers!

http://store.steampowered.com/news/4531/

Why is this good news? Personally I hate the delay of having to fire up Steam everytime I want to play a game. No I don't leave it running constantly in the background nor have the slightest desire to.

 

[Rebel44]

Why is this good news? Personally I hate the delay of having to fire up Steam everytime I want to play a game. No I don't leave it running constantly in the background nor have the slightest desire to.

I just keep Steam running 24/7 - it takes fraction of resources demanded by my other apps and it doesnt cause any performance degradation.

 

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

I'll buy if there is some holiday sale

 

[Nebor]

I just keep Steam running 24/7 - it takes fraction of resources demanded by my other apps and it doesnt cause any performance degradation.

I agree. I think having it running in the background makes everything else run faster. Microsoft Word loads faster when it's Steampowered!

 

[pontifex]

amazon had it for like $55 w/ $20 credit a while back.

That's not right now, well except for the $55 but a $4.99 difference - so much extortion!!!

 

[pcmax]

I agree. I think having it running in the background makes everything else run faster. Microsoft Word loads faster when it's Steampowered!

LMAO, exactly! And I am so loving it when steam connection is down which is like 2 to 3 times a week at least. Just tried to play MW2, steam connection down!. And no it's not my internet connection because all other things internet work just fine. As much as I soo look forward to this game based on all the reviews I am now hesitant if I have to play through steam. All my TF2 friends call it a "steam"ing pile and rightfully so. If they(Steam) could just get their $(#(t together consistently it would be okay but so far has not been the case. Just saying

 

[zerocool84]

I'm guessing there aren't going to be many deals or discounts this close to launch.

Or even long after launch

 

[Regs]

Somebody is excited.