will this be in the shop's?

[hot564231]

^same thing, becasue i don't want to go on steam to buy it. i have to use steam to HL2 and it kill me to use steam. plz tell me if it's coming to the shop's?

PS: will there be a map where the combine fight your guy's as like an easter egg map /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Tiletron]

I would expect so, but I also think it will be a while.

Assuming that each episode will cost $10-15 each and will provide 6 hours of gameplay in each, the chances are a retail version of SiN Episodes won't be on the shelves until 3-5 of the chapters are available on Steam. This might seem a little bit pesemistic, but you have to remember that most games only have a playing experience story-wise that lasts for maybe 24 hours... at least until modteams "dip their fingers into the cookie jar" so to speak, and start creating their own magic with the game's engine.

[hot564231]

well let's bloody hope so /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[TheDarthJedi]

SiN:E will be on retail shelves EVENTUALLY.. possibly when several episodes have come out.

far as I know, ritual has no plans to release,say JUST episode 1 alone to retail shelves..

maybe they will do something like Ep: 1-3 or something... we'll see.

[hot564231]

yea i would think they would keep the episode's down 3 or 2 becasue they want you to buy and buy this is how they make there money for god sake's. i will call the SIN: E team now "Lord's of Money" /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[azmodai]

Originally posted by hot564231:
yea i would think they would keep the episode's down 3 or 2 becasue they want you to buy and buy this is how they make there money for god sake's. i will call the SIN: E team now "Lord's of Money" /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif



Just for a laugh, try working out how much money is forked out to develop a product for 6 months, with a full, experienced development team, they aren't cheap.

You call the dev team 'lords of money' when they want to make some money back on their product.

When you decide to start producing a product worth retail value, you pour effort into it for months, if not years at a time, you work crunch time, late nights, llong hours, with little to no social life.

Even if they did release boxed games with only 2 or 3 episodes in it, that would be fine, considering how much effort, preplanning, production time, and love was put into the product.

Exactly where do you get off calling the dev team lords of money?

[hot564231]

good god i was making a joke /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif clam down friend and yes i do know something about being on a Dev team becasue i'm making a mod http://www.mods.moddb.com/5232

[Maniac]

The developers confirmed the retail distribution of the sin episodes would take place AFTER all of the episodes were released through steam. They also said it would be a compilation of all the episodes.

They didn't say if steam was required for retail version, but my guess is yes.

-Maniac

[badman]

The retail distribution will happen before all of the episodes are done (since the total number of episodes is currently not set in stone). We'll most likely see 'seasonal' retail compilations, containing 3 or so episodes at a more traditional retail price point.