Activation on Steam (preorder)
I've preordered the game and already downloaded. Can I activate it on Steam? (I've tried the code on my e-mail, to no avail)
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Also to the TC if you were able to do what your trying to do, you would in sense be getting the same game twice. You would be able to give a copy to a friend but letting them play on your telltale account and/or steam account.
However what I want to happen is just working something out that will turn my copy into a steam copy, thus still only having one copy. Like retail UT3 users could do.
Then explain to me why Steam has it for sale. The pricing is exactly the same too so...
nobody knows why they sell some games on steam and dont want to sell us monkey island there ... nobody knows why you cant activate your games on steam too ... perhaps one day in a far future somebody from telltale games will give us an answer???
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As you can see, no Telltale games on that list, actually, quite few games on that list, so It's more an exception rather than a rule if the game at hand happens to be on it. With Steam showing around 714 available titles for purchase overall, doing some quick guesswork and estimation, that means that less than 10% of all games on steam can be activated from a retail key.
Besides I don't see a problem here at all, download the game from telltale (which has more or less the same limitations, that is you can download and play on more or less any computer you want to play on), then add a shortcut in steam.
Can you activate Direct2Drive games on Steam? No. Same goes here.
Yes, did I ever say otherwise? It's the same price there of course, except Valve takes a cut of that for profit and steam services; bandwith, support, etc.
So if companies want customers to be able to activate their games on steam that are bought elsewhere, they also have to pay for this for those copies. In order for this to happen Telltale has to make some sort of deal with Valve and pay them for this service. So far only a select few companies have done this.
It's well known, see above.
It's a few quid more on Steam here in the UK
But yeah I wish I had bought it on Steam so I can view my playtime and what not. Wouldn't have got the pre-order bonuses though so swings and roundabouts!
emily from telltale games replied this to me:
"I don’t know what the plans are for Tales of Monkey Island on Steam. Even if the game does show up on Steam, though, the pre-order bonuses and the Collector’s DVD at the end of the season are only available to customers who buy the games from Telltalegames.com, so if those are important to you, I suggest placing a pre-order with Telltale."
i thought they not gonna sell it on steam, so i preordered here, now its on steam but i cant activate it there, im really frustated!!!
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The Humble bundle #1 got steam activation codes for all 5 of it's games and I highly doubt Valve/steam got a pretty penny for it. Also since this topic was made Telltale and Valve have been in bed together quite a bit (See TF2 cross promotions.)
Let me rest this once and for all:
NO, YOU WILL NOT GET STEAM CODES
The promotions were for TF2 items for new releases. The only reason the Humble Indie Bundle got codes was because it was for charity and not for-profit. You spent money on the Telltale product, so don't complain if you want a different version of the product. I don't buy an Xbox and complain it won't play Super Mario Galaxy.