Derek Smart on Digital Distributors refusing to sell Steamworks games

A little more info from Brad Wardell. Nothing shocking, but slightly informative.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2...

10%? Hrm. I wonder where that number *came* from.

It also just occurred to me, when glancing over the report and seeing a screenshot of demigod and some mention of the Impulse overlay, that I had forgotten that Demigod is the *only* game I have ever played that actively prevented the Steam overlay from working. (i.e. if I change keys so that the Impulse overlay and the Steam overlay are on different keys, the Steam overlay still doesn't work. It's attached to the window for rendering--it does its little popup--but the key to activate it does nothing, no matter what.) I found this rather frustrating, as the people I wanted to play Demigod with are all people who I communicate with using Steam. (Not to mention that the Impulse overlay thing was pretty much unusable.) Hmm indeed.

It also just occurred to me, when glancing over the report and seeing a screenshot of demigod and some mention of the Impulse overlay, that I had forgotten that Demigod is the *only* game I have ever played that actively prevented the Steam overlay from working. (i.e. if I change keys so that the Impulse overlay and the Steam overlay are on different keys, the Steam overlay still doesn't work. It's attached to the window for rendering--it does its little popup--but the key to activate it does nothing, no matter what.)

CoD4's Punkbuster thought that the Steam overlay was a cheat program, and would kill the game whenever you tried to get onto a server.