UT3 Steam sale extended; another free play weekend coming

Posted Mar 10th 2009 10:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, FPS, Multiplayer

Last week Epic Games updated Unreal Tournament III with both a new patch and a big new content update known as the Titan Pack. The updated game also made its way to Steam where Valve gave it a big 40 percent discount and let players check out the full game for free last weekend.

However there were reports on the Steam message boards that the amount of traffic generated by the free game weekend caused some Steam owners to have download issues with UT 3. While Valve has not officially mentioned these reported issues, today they seemed to throw some Steam owners a bone by announcing a second free weekend for UT 3 (beginning on Friday) and an extension of the Steam sale until Sunday, March 22. Valve did say that UT 3 rose to the number one spot on their list and that simultaneous player numbers have gone up over 2000 percent since the release of the new patch and Titan Pack.

Tags: epic-games, steam, unreal-tournament-3, unreal-tournament-iii, unreal-tournament-iii-titan-pack, valve, valve-software

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Oh hellz yeah, alot more people(Including one my friends) bought this because of the free weekend Posted at 10:04PM on Mar 10th 2009 by Game_playa

Although a 2000% increase in simultaneous players wasn't much to say (since hardly anyone was ever online before), it was a HUGE boost. It makes me happy... the game is phenomenal but it just came at the wrong time and had to duke it out with CoD4 for so long. I don't mind that it took a long time to mature, so long as I know that there will be people online and the game will be around for a long time.

Epic deserves this win... it's a great product and deserves a dedicated community. Posted at 5:38AM on Mar 11th 2009 by collin

Agreed with above. UT3 is a killer game and it is a criminal shame that it was so dismissed by most gamers. I really hope that this momentum keeps up as I've been having a blast with it, especially since the new content was added and the servers exploded with people.

...bysmittyPosted at 9:30AM on Mar 11th 2009 by bysmitty

Wow dude that is like totally insane man!

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www.privacy.at.tcPosted at 10:03AM on Mar 14th 2009 by Jsames Wright