POSTAL 3 IS STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE !

[Jenny_MCII™]

You can buy DRM free copy from Zoom Platform
https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/postal-iii

You could buy physical Postal 20th anniversary collection
https://runningwithscissors.com/product/postal-20th-anniversary-collectors-edition/

or you try buying a key from reseller.
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If you go with the latter 2 options you will most likely need no DRM patch.
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/858-postal-3-nodrm/

[markosepjr]

I hope official remake faithful to Steve Wik's vision gets announced one day and it's under the hands of other developers who won't have problems with budget.

[mcnichoj]

Does the physical anniversary version come with Steam keys? I know it says it installs Steam but it doesn't specify about the games.
Zoom version is DRM free but it's not worth supporting the developers for what's considered a bad game and is abandonware to the point Steam had to step in and remove it. You might as well just pirate it instead at that point.

[MarcoCarlo]

I found it on Direct2Drive today. Still available and gives a steam key.

[RogellParadox]

Zoom and GOG > > > > > Steam

[mcnichoj]

Originally posted by ζ͜͡Tico Liro ao Molho Pardo:

Zoom and GOG > > > > > Steam

Postal III was never on GOG because of Akella.
The game was never fixed because of Akella.
Buying the game on Zoom supports Akella.
If only these things were all connected someway but how?

[RogellParadox]

Originally posted by mcnichoj:

Originally posted by ζ͜͡Tico Liro ao Molho Pardo:

Zoom and GOG > > > > > Steam

Postal III was never on GOG because of Akella.
The game was never fixed because of Akella.
Buying the game on Zoom supports Akella.
If only these things were all connected someway but how? :balloonicorn:

I mean for the DRM free thing.

[Jenny_MCII™]

Money ain't infinite, Postal 3 didn't made near as much to save Akella from financial trouble and definitely not enough to varant long term support.
The DRM at the time probably helped prevent piracy for first few days when the sales are the highest.
When Zoom approached Akella about Postal 3 it was years later when piracy was already irrelevant.
Zoom removed the DRM from their version not Akella, therefore Akella never offered the game on GOG years prior.
The company is on life support and if Postal 3 didnt saved them back then, it surrely won't save them now.
Buying a legal copy is in your own interest if you dont want to risk viruses.
Do or do not, nobody is forcing you.

[DarkSpartan]

Gamersgate, which is an official store, also has keys left.

[RogellParadox]

Originally posted by DarkSpartan:

Gamersgate, which is an official store, also has keys left.

Thanks, took a look days ago and they were gone, now they've been restocked, probably

[Crashed]

Originally posted by mcnichoj:

Does the physical anniversary version come with Steam keys? I know it says it installs Steam but it doesn't specify about the games.
Zoom version is DRM free but it's not worth supporting the developers for what's considered a bad game and is abandonware to the point Steam had to step in and remove it. You might as well just pirate it instead at that point. :balloonicorn:

Usually when Valve takes down a game doesn't the whole Store page get taken down and not just purchases? Someone most likely has access to the Store page and was perhaps too lazy to just push the Zoom version as a patch.

[VAC BAN SECURE]

Originally posted by ζ͜͡Tico Liro ao Molho Pardo:

Zoom and GOG > > > > > Steam

I like GoG for getting certain triple A titles drm free. As for Zoom, I have not really tried it out yet

[DurradonXylles]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by mcnichoj:

Does the physical anniversary version come with Steam keys? I know it says it installs Steam but it doesn't specify about the games.
Zoom version is DRM free but it's not worth supporting the developers for what's considered a bad game and is abandonware to the point Steam had to step in and remove it. You might as well just pirate it instead at that point. :balloonicorn:

Usually when Valve takes down a game doesn't the whole Store page get taken down and not just purchases? Someone most likely has access to the Store page and was perhaps too lazy to just push the Zoom version as a patch.

And that's been bugging me since Akella put Postal 3 on the Zoom Platform. If they're willing to crack or be rid of ActControl, just to sell a technically playable, DRM-free version elsewhere, why didn't they just update the game here on Steam to either use standard SteamWorks or just outright make it DRM-free?

I don't like the idea of anyone still being able to support this game, but if Akella is still able to update the game to not use a dying/dead DRM that renders the game unplayable, especially since it's been sold on Zoom for several months before it was removed from here, surely the Steam version could've still been updated since removing the game from sale is the developer or publisher's decision most of the time and not Valve's.

The only guess I have is that Akella decided to let P3 quietly die on Steam as they don't care to sell it anymore and would rather focus on future game development with their new partner/successor(?), Valkyrie Interactive, which is now listed as the co-publisher of most of their more recent and upcoming games (until a day or two ago, clicking on Akella as developer or publisher on any of their games' store pages brought you to Valkyrie's publisher page, which is why I'm wondering if they're supposed to inherit Akella's backlog).

On top of this, still having Postal 3 for sale somewhere online means that they still have a strong enough legal claim over the name and code of the game to make it impossible for RWS to do anything about it, basically keeping this POS game alive out of sheer spite at this point since there's little other reason they'd want to continue selling it assuming I'm right about that first point.

[Jenny_MCII™]

Originally posted by DurradonXylles:

Originally posted by Crashed:

Usually when Valve takes down a game doesn't the whole Store page get taken down and not just purchases? Someone most likely has access to the Store page and was perhaps too lazy to just push the Zoom version as a patch.

And that's been bugging me since Akella put Postal 3 on the Zoom Platform. If they're willing to crack or be rid of ActControl, just to sell a technically playable, DRM-free version elsewhere, why didn't they just update the game here on Steam to either use standard SteamWorks or just outright make it DRM-free?

Zoom cracked the version of Postal 3 Akella sent them (they had permission), Akella themselfs did nothing to remove the DRM. The changes done in the Zoom version are not the work of Akella and therefore its not as simple as copy and pasting the files, Akella would have to make their own DRM patch in order to get Postal 3 back to steam.

[xx.sorry_everyone.xx]

Thanks cause I was planning to play postal one to all the way the resent made i was about to say where's postal 3?

[Stann]

the 20th aniversary version is the best version of Poostal III.