Hey guys,
I want to congratulate you on a very polished and entertaining game!
I saw the review on IGN and decided to "try it out". I started playing at 11pm and next thing i knew it was 5am. Buying this was a no-brainer.
It's excellent in it's simplicity, well polished, graphically beautiful, and that backspace reload is just wonderful.
I'm looking forward to more content somewhere in the future (i'm sure it's coming sometime) even though i haven't played all missions yet, because i want to get the gold medal before moving to the next mission.
The only downside is the obligatory use of Steam, but my aversion of Steam is not your fault. I'd love a version though that doesn't need Steam to run. For one thing, i didn't manage to get steam to use a custom install directory. But this game made me want to look past these issues.
I'll keep an eye out for new releases from Hidden Path!
Kudos and keep up the good work.
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New Non-Steam option
For all you folks out there who don't want to install Steam, our first non-Steam option just became available. The folks at Greenhouse are selling a version of Defense Grid: The Awakening that use their Nitrogen online libraries for user authentication, standings, and triumphs. Enjoy!
Buy at Greenhouse
Jeff
I played the demo an hour
Steam is the future!
Hmm. How come you don't like Steam? Steam is just about the best thing since sliced bread if you ask me. I have bought 16 games through steam and nowadays I exclusively use Steam to do all my game purchases. 1. I can buy my game at any one time of the day and I'll get access to a game within an hour. Two at the most if the game is chunky. 2. I dont have to keep track of a DVD disc to install my game in case my harddrive fails me or if I need to format my computer. 3. My games are always up to date and thus I don't have to look for patches and/or hotfixes. 4. In case I go away to a friend I can log on to my steam account and install my game on his/her computer. Of course this can also be done with a disc. However, that requires forethought. I have all my games acessible to me on a whim. 4. Smaller game developers can get their games published at a very cost efficient way. Going retail and shipping boxes all over the world is extremely costly, complex and risky. 5. Getting "indie" games on the market is good for the gaming community since they put the pressure on the big behemoths to produce higher quality software and add variety to the game spectrum. 5. You save the environment by not having a bunch of trucks/ships/airplanes moving the game discs to your local store, and mine and that other guy over there in singapore. The only reason I can see that you might not like steam very much is if you have a really slow ISP. When steam was launched at first I didn't like the service very well because it lacked in performance, scale, functionality and polish. But times change and now Steam is the foundation of digital games distribution and most definetly the future of PC gaming. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong here. I'm curious as to why anyone would be against Steam :) P.S This game rules. More please! :) Oh dear. This post is supposed to be paragraphed but for some reason the evil forum wants to erase all my elegant spacing. Pity. Someone should fix this.
I like digital distribution,
Thanks
You can close it
You could always exit steam after you've turned on the game.
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Thanks much for your comments
Thanks much - the team loves to hear these things from players.
As for Steam, we understand that some people love what the service does for them in storing games and data and others prefer not to go through the service. For a small game developer like us, going with Steam libraries made our development schedule more efficient and allowed us to get the game out sooner.
Thanks!
Jeff
You're welcome