SOE brings EQII, Vanguard and more to Steam

by Shawn Schuster Jan 16th 2009 at 4:30PM

Filed under: Business models, MMO industry

Sony Online Entertainment has recently announced the availability of EverQuest, EverQuest II, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and Pirates of the Burning Sea on Valve's popular Steam service. To anyone familiar with Steam, you may realize what an important move this is by SOE. Fifteen million accounts on Steam is a pretty significant number.

To kick off this event, PotBS, Vanguard, EQ Secrets of Faydwer and EQII Rise of Kunark are all being offered at a special introductory price for the first 10 days of their availability. This includes 30 days of free gameplay for any new accounts, as well. Head on over to the official press release on Steam's website for complete details.

Tags: breaking, breakingnews, eq, everquest, everquest-2, pirates-of-the-burning-sea, potbs, soe, sony-online-entertainment, steam, valve, vanguard

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jack said on 5:25PM 1-16-2009

Anyone else dislike Steam??

DrMario said on 5:34PM 1-16-2009

No.

Firebreak said on 5:48PM 1-16-2009

I love steam.

BIGGIN said on 6:54PM 1-16-2009

I use Steam to launch my MMOs already, and for that matter, all my games. Doing so allows me to use Steam's IM, voice, and new web browser.

Nadril said on 6:50PM 1-16-2009

Nope steam is an awesome service. Shit, couple of weeks ago I got Unreal Tournement 3 there for TEN dollars. Their deals are incredible and it is a wonderful service.

MeowCat said on 6:55PM 1-16-2009

I have absolutely no problem with steam. You might even say I like it. Some of the pop-ups bug me but I have the feeling that's user error and I could turn those off if I just took a second to figure it out :)

Craig said on 10:33PM 1-17-2009

Does anyone dislike Steam? I don't know anyone that does.

Wjowski said on 3:19PM 1-19-2009

It's better than EA's DRM bullcrap.

BaronJuJu said on 5:58PM 1-16-2009

I love Steam, they have great offers all the time on there, like this weekend they have Rainbow Six vegas 2 for $9.99. For them to put Sony games on their site is just a win-win situation for both teams. Plus, the customer gets some great deals on the games to boot.

Greeen said on 6:19PM 1-16-2009

pretty neat move. makes the station launcher kind of obsolete.

Neil said on 5:02AM 1-17-2009

Maybe Steam policies will force Sony to stop being idiots with their customer care policy. For a lengthy time it was possible to buy EQ2 expansions you already had on your account, and were provided with no refunds if you made this mistake. As a returning player looking to check out new things in EQ2, this soured my experience incredibly as they threw TOU immediately in my face, going straight for a defensive stance on their policies.