Author Topic: Serious Sam HD free off steam! Free weekend!  (Read 722 times)

Go get it.

I honestly never played it before, i'll try it now then.

I think i'll stick with my origional sd version.

If only it wasn't steam... :(

Don't bother, it's not a full free weekend and you only get to play the stuff versus mode which is a bad quake-clone which nobody plays.

Here's a dev's post in one of the many disappointment threads on their Steam forums

"This was never supposed to be a free "full game" weekend, but a free "versus" weekend because it makes no sense to give the full game for free for a weekend since everyone can complete the game in one weekend (and we wouldn't get a dime from it). I don't know why the banner says free "full game" since this doesn't make any sense. I don't remember CoD having a "full game" weekend, just the versus modes were free...

Just think about it... Free full game weekend? Come on, it's not like this is WoW or something which takes you months/years to complete.

We will probably contact someone about the banner though, this is in fact false advertising."

And here's the thread in which he posted; http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1351771

They apparently think that their own game is so stuff that nobody would want to play it more than once, and that the versus mode is the best part of the whole experience!

non hd sam had quake like dm thingy.

Seriously though, practically everyone is disappointed, the people who wanted to play it and the people who already owned it and wanted to play with all the newbies over co-op.

Bump and crap.

They just released a new post on their Steam sub-forum, due to the disappointment caused they are going to give a full free weekend, huzzah.

Quote and link;

"The awkward situation where the banner says "play the full game", while the game actually only allows versus levels to be played is a result of miscommunication along the lines between development and marketing.

We are very sorry that this has happened, but I can assure you this was out of Croteam's control. In any case, we (Croteam) have decided that the only fair way to remedy this is by fixing the game to allow unlimited access to all game modes, including Single Player, Cooperative, Survival, Beast Hunt and all others.

Note that due to time zone differences we cannot do this immediately, but we will do our best efforts to get it fixed ASAP. It should be enabled correctly before Saturday, so everyone should get their free weekend.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that our customers understand that not everything is under our control nor can everything be done without ever making a mistake. However, we stay committed to giving the best service possible to them."

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1352697

Serious Sam is an epic game series
Never heard of a Versus mode in it though...
Maybe thats because I have the Xbox arcade version...