Prey not available on the steam store?

[DEWIMEISTER TTV]

Or am I missing something? There's not even a listing for it? I know because I would of rebought this game a LONG time ago.

[matrixmod]

no it's not available anymore on steam. but you still can grab a steam cdkey in certain place.

[Meursault]

Bethesda did not renew the first game's licence, so its gone. You can buy it off of a CD key retailer known as (ignore the nines) K9I9N9G9U9I9N

[DEWIMEISTER TTV]

Sweet, thanks guys

[whacim]

I believe the game was pulled from the store because some of the music licensing has expired.

[DEWIMEISTER TTV]

seems like the cool thing to do these days, RIP Alan Wake

[Barraiya]

Prey was never actually available for purchase on Steam.

At release it was being distributed digitally by a company named Triton, who quickly went out of business. Before they collapsed, a deal was struck with Steam to honor existing cdkeys.

[WeslleySnake]

No, because this I buy the key game in a site called Pinguin (put the K in the place of P)

[Kleerex]

I just bought a key on k i n g u i n. So happy!

[TAW|REA]

Postat inițial de Barraiya:

Prey was never actually available for purchase on Steam.

At release it was being distributed digitally by a company named Triton, who quickly went out of business. Before they collapsed, a deal was struck with Steam to honor existing cdkeys.

You are semi-wrong. It is true that Triton's bankruptcy caused Prey's (2006) transfer to Steam. But It was sold on Steam until they ran out of keys.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090301003347/http://store.steampowered.com/app/3970

Prey (2006) keys that being sold on grey market are mostly retail keys.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Postat inițial de Barraiya:

Prey was never actually available for purchase on Steam.

At release it was being distributed digitally by a company named Triton, who quickly went out of business. Before they collapsed, a deal was struck with Steam to honor existing cdkeys.

No it was on Steam that's how i got my copy of the game back in the day!

[Bishop_Swift]

Postat inițial de metal revolution:

Postat inițial de Barraiya:

Prey was never actually available for purchase on Steam.

At release it was being distributed digitally by a company named Triton, who quickly went out of business. Before they collapsed, a deal was struck with Steam to honor existing cdkeys.

You are semi-wrong. It is true that Triton's bankruptcy caused Prey's (2006) transfer to Steam. But It was sold on Steam until they ran out of keys.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090301003347/http://store.steampowered.com/app/3970

Prey (2006) keys that being sold on grey market are mostly retail keys.

There is something incredibly humourus about running out of copies of an entirely digital product. Ironically Aspyr doesn't seem to have that problem as you can download this game for macOS on the App Store.

[TAW|REA]

Postat inițial de Presbytier:

There is something incredibly humourus about running out of copies of an entirely digital product. Ironically Aspyr doesn't seem to have that problem as you can download this game for macOS on the App Store.

Humorous? Sorry mate but that is a fact. Back in the day, Steam games had embedded product keys that could be reached via either Steam client's CD key option and Regedit or sometimes directly via installation directory. Today, those keys are named LegacyKey. If a publisher does not renew keys for its game, the game will eventually run out of keys. That is not a case with modern games on Steam, cause they do not use LegacyKey method at all.

Prey (2006) had on disk key; LegacyKeyDiskLocation: base\preykey
https://steamdb.info/app/3970/info

Doom 3 has its key on Windows registry; LegacyKeyRegistryLocation: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\TestApp9050\SteamKey
https://steamdb.info/app/9050/info/

on the other hand

Prey (2017) has no embedded key:
https://steamdb.info/app/480490/info/

Wolfenstein: The New Order has no embedded key:
https://steamdb.info/app/201810/info/

Prey (2006) on Mac App Store is technically a different product. Its macOS porter is Aspyr and publisher is still Take-Two Interactive. It doesn't have online multiplayer (LAN only) whereas Prey for Windows and GNU/Linux are compatible with each other. I highly doubt if Prey's key on Mac is compatible with PC retail or Steam version of Prey.

Edit: Source added.

https://kotaku.com/5436298/steam-sold-out-of-prey-please-try-again-later
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Prey-Pc-Game-Steam-Digital,9334.html

[Cursed Hawkins]

Postat inițial de metal revolution:

Postat inițial de Presbytier:

There is something incredibly humourus about running out of copies of an entirely digital product. Ironically Aspyr doesn't seem to have that problem as you can download this game for macOS on the App Store.

Humorous? Sorry mate but that is a fact. Back in the day, Steam games had embedded product keys that could be reached via either Steam client's CD key option and Regedit or sometimes directly via installation directory. Today, those keys are named LegacyKey. If a publisher does not renew keys for its game, the game will eventually run out of keys. That is not a case with modern games on Steam, cause they do not use LegacyKey method at all.

Prey (2006) had on disk key; LegacyKeyDiskLocation: base\preykey
https://steamdb.info/app/3970/info

Doom 3 has its key on Windows registry; LegacyKeyRegistryLocation: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\TestApp9050\SteamKey
https://steamdb.info/app/9050/info/

on the other hand

Prey (2017) has no embedded key:
https://steamdb.info/app/480490/info/

Wolfenstein: The New Order has no embedded key:
https://steamdb.info/app/201810/info/

Prey (2006) on Mac App Store is technically a different product. Its macOS porter is Aspyr and publisher is still Take-Two Interactive. It doesn't have online multiplayer (LAN only) whereas Prey for Windows and GNU/Linux are compatible with each other. I highly doubt if Prey's key on Mac is compatible with PC retail or Steam version of Prey.

Edit: Source added.

https://kotaku.com/5436298/steam-sold-out-of-prey-please-try-again-later
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Prey-Pc-Game-Steam-Digital,9334.html

If you even look in the News section of this forum you can see a big white SOLD OUT on top of Prey (2006)'s image.
Edit: at least when you're in-game you can see it!

[Vlad Yvhv]

Postat inițial de DEWIMEISTER TTV:

Or am I missing something? There's not even a listing for it? I know because I would of rebought this game a LONG time ago.

If you've got your CD key from a physical copy of the PC version, plug that into Steam and add it to your library.