Comments on: Braid for the PC is now $15.

By: pinobot

pinobot — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:29:20 +0000

Thanks for bringing this game to pc, the price (€11,67 through Paypal) is very reasonable.

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:30:00 +0000

The GamersGate version of the game does not have any activation at all, I think. You just download and install and that’s it.

However, I think they will have an older version (without the vsync fix) until Monday sometime… just a guess though.

The Greenhouse version has a one-time network authentication, but after that first time, it just stores the key data on a local file and never goes to the network again (at least that’s my understanding of how it works).

By: Victory

Victory — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:05:58 +0000

Without network activation on this (single player) game, I’d be happy to pay $20 immediately even though I constantly have a stack of unopened games waiting on my desk. First, because it seems good enough to be worth it, and second, because the game industry seriously needs to innovate more and that’s something I want my money to encourage.

With network authentication, the game is effectively a rental, so as a matter of principle I’m not spending more than $10. Please do not take this personally. I haven’t bought or played Bioshock, Mirror’s Edge or Mass Effect either due to the same issue.

While they are an extreme minority, there are also a small group of people (such as deployed soldiers) whose gaming machines are not networked and therefore cannot play if the game requires network auth.

Pretty please – consider putting the game up at GoG or another download service which does not use DRM. I’m sure you agree that us legit customers deserve the same or better quality of product as freeloaders are going to get.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:46:54 +0000

According to Steam, http://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/, the game’s system Requirements are:

o Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7
o Processor: 1.4GHz or faster
o Memory: 768 MB or more
o Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more
o Video Card: tbd
o DirectX® Version: DirectX® 9.0c
o Controller Support: Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:11:00 +0000

Well, my recommendation is just to download the free demo and try it. I will try to post some recommended system specs, but you just never know until you try.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:53:49 +0000

I have a aluminum macbook with vista installed using bootcamp. I believe it uses an Nvidia 8600m graphics chipset. Will it run this game ok?

By: catch

catch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:19:05 +0000

Are you sure it won’t be part of the Indy Sale? Because it’s listed if you click on “click for details” on the indie sale popup.

http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/indie

By: Borgot

Borgot — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:57:19 +0000

No, it wont be part of the Indy Sale. Sorry.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:13:24 +0000

Any chance Braid will be a part of Valve’s indy games sale? If not, will we at least be able to pre-order it? My birthday is coming up soon =)

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:32:50 +0000

VMC Labs is figuring out the system requirements, but the thing is, I had to have near-final code to give to them to do that. So hopefully it happens by the end of this week — i.e. right before release.