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Wait... only 24.99 Euros for all 3, I thought it's only the Alpha? OMG, I misread -- Getting Supporter Edition! That's for the basic Alpha. Supporter Edition has, AWESOMESAUCE. :cc:

Qaz ya nab, Alpha doesn't have any Su-34. :icon_hm: I wonder if there's something similar to a mini-warfare mission - can't have all co-op! Benny will cook something up.

Yes, and one of those parts is the release of A3A in between. See you on the Southern tip of Stratis by the monument, guise.

Yes, indeed, since it plays as an FPS in the integral and irreducible component of the game - Infantry. And good luck in not using the FPS part, when you fire the tank cannon or do pretty much anything that relates to "Shooting".

Let me savour myself in this huge Intel release and I may go the same route as you, Korro. :cc: Seems worth it at first glance.

It's the 5th of March at the earliest, I'd pay 29.99 for a release today, tho. :cc:

Excellent. I'll have to review the deals, will take the "Alpha" one at the very least.

http://www.arma3.com/alpha/briefing http://www.arma3.com/alpha/briefing http://www.arma3.com/alpha/briefing

If A3A comes today, that mission just has to be the most epic mission in the history of mission making and missions in general. Period.

That poll in your sig - a whole of 365 people voted, I think I may have missed it. BTW, I think checking "Remember password for this account" is a very logical step if one wants to go offline. I remember it working perfectly back in 2005 with CS:S and it should works just as well in the year 2013.

It's perfect timing, 18:00 GMT - everyone should be home and F5 spamming the forums. Also, this ARG may be shorter than the 2011 one, plus I don't expect people to take a boat ride to real life Stratis! So we'll have to go to the monument in-game. P.S. if Captain Scott Miller is with us, it means it's not 2013 anymore, but the mid-2030!!

What's the timestamp on his message? That Army could be us. Ready to deploy in 6 hours to you-know-what. P.S. Found it - https://twitter.com/FoltynD 1 hour ago! OMG.

I hope they get released simultaneously -- I'd like to purchase a digital copy thru Steam/Sprocket and have the game downloading immediately, and then order a retail boxed version -- Playing ArmA III while the seksi box arrives. I know that retail will need Steam activation and this effectively is going to be 2 separate accounts, but the boxed version probably won't be opened. I'll put it on a shelf somewhere. :cc:

Search these forums for CRC errors and enjoy helping people, since you seem knowledgeable enough on how to install patches.

It was a comparison of activity in the Top-20 titles on Steam, not genres. I've seen ambitious indie games break the mold in MP activity there, Chilvary: Medieval Warfare being one of them. Thanks to DayZ, ArmA II is in that Top-20 as well. ---------- Post added at 03:14 ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 ---------- Yes, you shouldn't, seeing as you've dug up a definition of what ArmA is. Thanks, we all knew that it is an FPS - for infantry at least.

You mean the retail disk with Vanilla ArmA 1.0? For which you have to scour the Internets to get the latest 1.05, 1.07, 1.15 patches, applying them and getting 3-4 CRC errors in between, then having to re-do the installation after performing a dance-ritual in a dark room with a mirror and a candle? No thanks, I'll take Steam.

True. But is VAC the anti-cheat protection in itself, or just a database on Steam? I vaguely remember it banning people back in 2005 in CS: Source MP <- Could be mistaken.

Have you read their announcement and that part, where it says they wouldn't be able to release ArmA III in 2013 without Steam support/integration? There's also a big difference in "I honestly think & They just can't afford statements -- the latter of which I didn't make. Not sure what your definition of ArmA is, but it is an FPS. DayZ shows it, MP shows it. It's not my problem you guys walk in tacticool 360 wedge formations all the time and then get quickscoped by a rascal with an SVD. And when it's going to happen, they wouldn't want DayZ dragging out ArmA III out of the red territory. Why not profit on both titles? DayZ dev blog 1 posted February 6th, 899,967 VIEWS, 19k Likes - DayZ dev blog 2 posted February 22nd, 174k views, 6.3k Likes - See my point yet? And then that cycle got interrupted. They've adapted. We have Steam now. End of story. Perhaps, there's a good reason why this channel has been inactive for 7 months straight - http://www.youtube.com/user/Arma3official Sure, but if they went with obscure retail copies again with 7 different variations, the margins would be so low that you wouldn't see ArmA IV. Not without Steam anyway. Cool story bro. You make an investment "just because" and then take a haircut of, let's say, 5-25% and walk away. Doesn't happen.

I hope it's being improved to the point that the player doesn't have to know what a .pbo is. There's the mod description, there's 20 servers with 50 people each playing it - he wants there, and he better end up there. Redundant complexity shaves off whole populations to the point that we're left here with 430 votes in this poll. Some stats: http://arma2.swec.se/server/list - Players Online: 19057 http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ Borderlands 2 - Current: 10,670, Peak today: 17,527 (Is Borderlands 2 steam exclusive?) Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Multiplayer - Current: 18,670, Peak today: 70,024 ArmA II Op: Arrowhead is there with 5k/8k with 1 spot below COD: MW3 & Planetside 2, but that's only Steam.

The first two are longstanding sandbox franchises developed by AAA studios with AAA publishers - released on all 3 platforms. You get what I mean. Red Harvest won't sell you 500k copies. Competitive MP (including CO-OP!) with proper community services ala BF3 - will. http://arma2.swec.se/server/list Only a small percentage of players asked for an offline single-player DayZ version.

What if: When BEye globally bans an ID, it's transfered into the VAC database? BattleEye = VAC enabled, eh?

Not sure if /sarc or not coming from you, but the point here is that only MP sells games today, as DayZ has shown. Unless you're BioWare, of course. :cc:

Are you privy to their balance sheet? I only know that ArmA II didn't sell "well" before DayZ, and I, myself, was a witness to lack of MP servers well into the game's lifespan, which had since disappeared, courtesy of DayZ. Trust me, a 225 km^2 map zombie game goes a long way in this world, since it is running on a unique engine. Those whole 151 and a half persons, myself included? They will buy ArmA III regardless. Know why? Because it's the same game, as OFP, Armed Assault, ArmA II was - with a lot of polish on top. Again, show me the balance sheet and their expected sales number, under the condition* that ArmA III would be released just the same way as ArmA II had been - obscure retail, Sprocket & Steam, while featuring, more or less, the same multiplayer features. Without Steam integration, they wouldn't be able to retain enough people to call the game "Successful". Dude, what statement? It's business, nothing personal - if it was unprofitable to release ArmA III under the old conditions, then it was unprofitable - end of story. Be glad it's coming out at all. Customer is always right in the way that said customer may walk out of the store, but if people start insulting the store owners and trashing their property -- Wee-ooo-wee-ooo, here comes the police. *Don't forget what happened in September, along with renaming of Lemnos to Altis. (There's a good reason for that, albeit political one, which I won't discuss here) ---------- Post added at 21:43 ---------- Previous post was at 21:37 ---------- Summation/translation would be nice. But as stated in the other PS4 thread - ArmA III is PC Exclusive. :cc:

Last time as per above year 2011 Summer ARG before ArmA III reveal, I think it took 1 month to materialise, but we knew 1-2 weeks into ARG what it was all about. :cc: I'll find the thread, sec. HERE! -- http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?118336-ArmA-2-site-hacked&highlight=arma+hacked+arg It's 741 pages, but you just have to read it. :cc: Here's the Q&A after the 2011 ARG had finished - http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?119602-Pre-announcement-ARG-answers-to-questions-discussion&highlight=arma+arg