Prima In-Game Guides on Steam

[Hectic Glenn]

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[br]Valve and Prima have launched a selection of in-game guides on Steam today. The games currently available with guides include: Dragon Age Origins, Just Cause 2, Bad Company 2, Splinter Cell Conviction & Left 4 Dead 2.

All the guides are readable in game via Steam's UI overlay functionality, as well as being available outside of game.

All Prima guides are available for 50% off for the launch.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Hahaha, what?

I mean, what?

Hahaha.

Direct2drive, anyone?

 

[AtomicSpark]

And here I thought the $19.99 was because of the pretty glossy paper it was printed on. Oh well, there is always MyCheats Super Guides and Google.

 

[Lucid]

This is just stupid.

Have fun making no sales off of this whatsoever, Prima/Valve.

 

[Blackthorn]

But you can access them from the in-game overlay! You know, the same place where you have access to the ****ing internet.

 

[ríomhaire]

I have nothing against this move. Yes you can use the internet anyway, but that doesn't stop people from buying these guides in shops.

The only thing that bothers me is that the L4D2 guide is already obsolete due to the added campaign, mutations and soon realism versus.

 

[Barnz]

How is this stupid? I think it's a nice addition to Steam. I hope they put an e-book version of Raising the Bar too, not that I need it, but it would stop everyone from pirating it.

 

[ríomhaire]

Checking out the L4D2 guide page. It comes with instructional videos and excerpts from The Zombie Survival Guide.

 

[Blackthorn]

It would be cool if the sale price was the permanent price. £12.99 is a lot to ask for considering you're only a couple of clicks away from the numerous Wikis that are available for a game of any complexity.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I have nothing against this move. Yes you can use the internet anyway, but that doesn't stop people from buying these guides in shops.

The only thing that bothers me is that the L4D2 guide is already obsolete due to the added campaign, mutations and soon realism versus.

Yeah, I used to buy these guides when I was ten.

The last strategy guide I bought was for Pokemon: Platinum, and simply because it's a ****ing dictionary almost 500 pages long with so much god damn information it might as well be a wiki in itself.

 

[FoxFire]

Steam overlay + GameFAQs.com makes having digital copies of these guides entirely pointless.

Especially if they're charging full retail prices.

 

[diluted]

people still buy these things? i mean, they had a place 15 years ago before most of us had internet, but who would actually pay 20 bucks for this and you don't even get a physical copy?

 

[CyberPitz]

The last one I bought was for Oblivion.
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Quit looking at me like that

 

[Iron Kat]

The Half-Life 2 Prima game guide is terrible! There are so many mistakes in it; walkthrough errors and things marked on the maps that don't even exist. The only reason I bought it was to help me find more of the hidden caches and I've actually found far more on my own than are listed in the book. Tbh, I could probably write a better guide. I'm sure I've played the game more times, judging by the inaccuracy of the book.

 

[-smash-]

How is this stupid? I think it's a nice addition to Steam. I hope they put an e-book version of Raising the Bar too, not that I need it, but it would stop everyone from pirating it.

YES, VALVE! RAISING THE BAR, PLZ!

 

[Barnz]

@iron kat
HL2 guide is awesome. It was written during the production, so some stuff might have changed.

 

[Acepilotf14]

The point of Raising the Bar is that it's a hard-cover development book.. a collector's item. You don't have it to read it, you have it to have it. It's not really all that interesting.

Spoiler

it's okay Pitz, I bought the Oblivion guide too, but it was worth it to get the cheap way out of being a vampire

 

[Sheepo]

You guys are silly.

a) I DON'T WANT IT, HOW DARE YOU ADD IT.
b) THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN MAKE MONEY FROM THIS.

 

[Intamin]

I thought it was actually going to be worthwhile and give you a pop-up video like guide when you wanted (say, hitting a certain key) to give you info about where you were, how to approach the level, etc...

Perhaps that's too difficult. Oh well.

 

[Acepilotf14]

You guys are silly.

a) I DON'T WANT IT, HOW DARE YOU ADD IT.
b) THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN MAKE MONEY FROM THIS.

Direct2drive already did it. Their guide section basically turned into a delivery service for their Girls of Gaming PDFs.