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Added by Brad Shoemaker on Jan. 16, 2009

Ahoy. Buy our game on Steam.
Ahoy. Buy our game on Steam.
It seems like nearly every week, another major publisher is announcing the availability of its products on Steam. This week in the hot seat, it's Sony Online Entertainment. The official Steam site has a note that SOE has officially joined up. Here's what they have to say regarding the SOE games and deals you can find on Steam right now.

EverQuest and EverQuest II collections, as well as Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and Pirates of the Burning Sea. To kick off this monumental event, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, EQ Secrets of Faydwer and EQII Rise of Kunark are being offered by Valve at a special introductory price for the first 10 days the games are available for purchase on Steam. New SOE game accounts for the game purchased will also receive 30 days of gameplay included with purchase (this offer excludes existing game and Station Access accounts).

In addition, the recently released expansions EverQuest Seeds of Destruction and EverQuest II The Shadow Odyssey are available for purchase.

SOE's online games have lost some of their cachet since the 800-lb gorilla World of Warcraft moved onto the block, although I heard some pretty good things about Pirates when it came out. More importantly, their upcoming titles--DC Universe Online and The Agency--both looked hot when we saw them at E3 last year, and Steam availability certainly bodes well for the success of those games.


24 Comments

Bucketdeth
on Jan. 16, 2009
This is pretty awesome, even though SOE is turning into an even more corrupt money hungry company as they have put RMT into Everquest 2, so no thanks to anymore SOE games.

Kush
on Jan. 16, 2009
Steam is eventually going to take over the world.

Chainblast
on Jan. 16, 2009
All Steam needs now is Blizzard, though I'm sure Blizzard is doing just fine without them.

BiggerBomb
on Jan. 16, 2009

Andrwmorph
on Jan. 16, 2009
They are still releasing EQ expansions? I played it around 10 years ago!

FFJosh
on Jan. 16, 2009
Steam wins, gg.

crusnchill
on Jan. 16, 2009
Good service, good prices and the only delivery time is based on how fast or slow your internet connection is which is faster than buying the DVD version of the game and waiting for it to arrive even. So even with a slow internet connection, it's still pretty damn fast.

As long as some corporate ass-hole's don't come along and fuck the something great that Steam has going for it then I'll be a happy guy.

Besides steam has found the winning formula of the moment and my question is: "Why change something that work's so well?"

Lunarbunny
on Jan. 16, 2009

Geno
on Jan. 16, 2009
I'm not sure how many people are going to be joining Everquest due to this but good move on Steam nonetheless. Now if they'd just stop releasing those 60 metarating casual games....

jakob187
on Jan. 16, 2009
Alright, so how does this affect Station Pass, if it affects it at all?  I mean, it's super fuckin' cool that Steam is carrying SOE stuff...but at the same time, SOE already basically had that going on with their Station Pass setup.
Oh well, whatever.  If the shoe fits...

Pibo47
on Jan. 16, 2009
Gabe Newell, the man who sold his soul for the greatest corp. ever!

Jedted
on Jan. 16, 2009
I don't know how this affects Station Pass accounts but one of the things i hated about SOE is that the only way you can get the most bang for your buck is if your actively playing every single SOE game.  Well maybe not every game but how many people really play more than ONE MMO at a time?

Bellum
on Jan. 16, 2009
Geno said:
"I'm not sure how many people are going to be joining Everquest due to this but good move on Steam nonetheless. Now if they'd just stop releasing those 60 metarating casual games...."

Why should they? :/ Not like it's taking up significant shelf-space or anything.

Erock
on Jan. 16, 2009
WHYYYY don't that have THEE Matrix Online in this service!? That game is great and doesn't get what it deserves... players! I like it, atleast.... Pew pew.

Dastan
on Jan. 17, 2009
The Matrix Online was closed, that's why!

Kohe321
on Jan. 17, 2009
AWESOME! Steam is a perfect gaming service.

Snail
on Jan. 17, 2009
Soon enough, steam will own the gaming industry.

MattyFTM
on Jan. 17, 2009
Damn. I hate steam. Steam eats my money. I impulse buy on steam. I've got tonnes games on steam that I've never played, and I just bought because they were cheap. More games means I'm just going to waste more of my money.

Jared
on Jan. 17, 2009
Great idea, there's people that still play many of those games. A guy at my work still plays EQ after all these years, I read that around 100,000 people still play it?

TehBuLL
on Jan. 17, 2009
just in time for The Agency.  This can mean nothing but good things for a new inventive mmorpg.  best of luck.


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