The Energon Pub

News Credits: 5749 · Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:25 pm

Great news PC gamers! High Moon Studios has tweeted that the G1 Retro pack for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be available as a pre-order exclusive via Steam. The pre-order should be available soon.

The G1 Retro pack gives you access of the G1 Optimus Prime skin and G1 Megatron Gun and G1 Shockwave Cannon.

Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:56 pm

This is a dream come true. My favorite game vendor and g1 nostalgia put together. Now I'm glad I held off on pre ordering at Gamestop.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:47 pm

Yey! But... now I actually have to have Steam? Oh well. Not the end of the world. Lol.

Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:50 pm

That "exclusive" is already available as a Gamestop pre-order bonus of any version of the game. Buying it on Steam digitally for the PC users is... ok? But you'd get the Steam version anyway by buying the PC version any place else as a physical copy.

I guess if you refuse to buy from Game-stop, this might be nice.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:32 pm

Aeravon wrote:That "exclusive" is already available as a Gamestop pre-order bonus of any version of the game. Buying it on Steam digitally for the PC users is... ok? But you'd get the Steam version anyway by buying the PC version any place else as a physical copy.

I guess if you refuse to buy from Game-stop, this might be nice.

Is it good for PC games? For some reason I didn't think so since Gamestop is rather suck-tastic when it comes to having PC games.

Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:40 pm

Erailea wrote:Is it good for PC games? For some reason I didn't think so since Gamestop is rather suck-tastic when it comes to having PC games.

With Impulse, Origin, and Steam around, Gamestop doesn't make much money on PC releases so they don't devote much shelf space to it. But if you pre-order a PC version of something, then they will have it on release day.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:20 pm

Aeravon wrote:
Erailea wrote:Is it good for PC games? For some reason I didn't think so since Gamestop is rather suck-tastic when it comes to having PC games.

With Impulse, Origin, and Steam around, Gamestop doesn't make much money on PC releases so they don't devote much shelf space to it. But if you pre-order a PC version of something, then they will have it on release day.

I stopped in my Gamestop today. The two guys who worked there were unsure if PC gamers would get the perk. Apparently they've seen PC gamers get shafted in the past for releases like this (where there is both a console and PC version). And because the code isn't given until pick up, instead of being printed on the pre-order receipt, they recommended going the safe route of Steam.

Kinda sucks. I'd prefer a disk, but I'd really like those skins/guns too. Glad they were at least honest about it and didn't just say "yeah, hey, you'll get them" because I know taking pre-orders looks good on their monthly grade, having worked at a Gamestop once myself.