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warbo
Guest
Any reason the steam offer for GMS2 is cheaper than the "upgrade" price offered to current owners of professional and above?
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GMS on Steam is subject to regional pricing, like most other things on the platform. You can view the entire comparison table on SteamDB, but generally it is auto-adjusted by Steam to reflect average "buying power" in the region (e.g. average wages in Russia are times lower than those in Europe).
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warbo
Guest
I guess it would make sense for me to buy it there than to use the promotion on offer from the site.
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DigitalProphet
Guest
What i'm wondering is if I purchase or Upgrade GMS2 now on Steam, or here, do I get access to the MAC version when it launches?
Cpaz
Member
To my knowledge it comes with professional. But I'm not sure. I know the OSX export already is added in GMS2. People can apply for ide closed beta now.
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Kios
Guest
I would expect that to be the case since you purchase a "license" to a software, and not a software version per se.
hippyman
Member
That's kind of exactly what you're buying with Gamemaker.... You buy per export.
Fortunately with GMS2, Win/Mac/Linux are included in the desktop export which is the base model that pretty much everybody buys.
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DigitalProphet
Guest
Thansk for the feedback.
So basically what you are saying is I can buy now to take advantage of the discount (since I own 1.4 ) and then i will get the MAc version as well when it comes out.
Will really speed up my workflow if I can have a MacOS editor.
I applied for the Beta.
So basically what you are saying is I can buy now to take advantage of the discount (since I own 1.4 ) and then i will get the MAc version as well when it comes out.
Will really speed up my workflow if I can have a MacOS editor.
I applied for the Beta.
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jb skaggs
Guest
Why?
hippyman
Member
Don't mind Zbox. Sometimes he says weird things.
There's nothing wrong with purchasing through Steam.
Yep pretty much. I bought it the moment they released it just because I happened to have enough at the time.
rIKmAN
Member
Why shouldn't you buy it on Steam?
If you purchase on Steam you get access to standalone, and if you purchase standalone you get access to the Steam version so I don't see any reason not to purchase through Steam?
Welp that wasn't the case rIKmAN when I bought a steam module and couldn't get it added to the standalone (because using the steam version also just sucked in terms of procedure those days too - there was always something wrong with it) and had to end up just buying it again, the only way to do it in the early days was buy Standalone and THEN you'd get access to steam. Not bidirectional.
I guess if that's not the case any more then I'm just left with the bad taste.
rIKmAN
Member
This is GMS1 yeah?Welp that wasn't the case rIKmAN when I bought a steam module and couldn't get it added to the standalone (because using the steam version also just sucked in terms of procedure those days too - there was always something wrong with it) and had to end up just buying it again, the only way to do it in the early days was buy Standalone and THEN you'd get access to steam. Not bidirectional.
I guess if that's not the case any more then I'm just left with the bad taste.
Russell confirmed it's bi-directional for GMS2, as I also hate Steam and would prefer standalone if that wasn't the case, despite it costing more.
I *think* it may work for GMS1 now as well (don't quote me on this!) as when I linked my Steam account to my YYG account all the GMS1 stuff appeared from Steam as well.
Cpaz
Member
Oh. By bi-direcitonal, I assume you mean you can transfer from steam, to standalone and vice versa?
And since there's no smileys in Russell's post, this means it has to be true information, right?
Also, Steam can offer bundle prices based on software you already own, so it's possible the lower Steam price takes into account that you already have GMS1 registered. I don't think that's the case if you didn't actually get a Steam code for your GMS1, though.
Also, Steam can offer bundle prices based on software you already own, so it's possible the lower Steam price takes into account that you already have GMS1 registered. I don't think that's the case if you didn't actually get a Steam code for your GMS1, though.