GameTap merging with European counterpart

First things first, GameTap is nothing like Steam. With GameTap you pay a single fee to play every game in their library, while you could play many without that fee. With Steam you pay a fee per game, usually games you could purchase at retail for the same price anyway. Gametap is a great idea, but fairly poor execution. They have too many useless titles. However, they are adding Supreme Commander into their library so that makes it pretty much all worth it. I just hope they keep their price point, and don't go the high monthly fee way.

I hope they'll keep the free stuff free. That was fun, especially Tomb Raider and Psychonauts. Metaboli has more recent games in their subscription service, and I could see myself playing a bunch of them. at the current price of almost $300 a month, it's not really worth it. I honestly like Gametap's a lot better, since it's a lot cheaper, and it has a bunch of the classics, especially in terms of RPGs like Baldur's Gate. A lot the games I'd want to play from Metaboli are also the old games that cost $5-15 these days...

I've been subscribing to Gametap now for almost two years. While I do like access to the classic games that are on there, I'm not going to renew my account. I'm getting Gamefly instead. Too bad really. It could of been great, but with so much shovelware and lack of new games it's just a shadow of what it could of been.

I cancelled my subscription to GameTap when they dropped Myst Online: Uru Live

hhhmmmm I am not sure about this.

what a joke.. two lousy services merged into one. I say - go for Steam or Gamersgate if you go digital. Steam is faster, Gamersgate is better.

I don't use gametap, but they got some good free games and quality subscriber games.

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Heh--a friend of mine points out that it's ironic that a service that couldn't straighten out it's international strategy gets sold to an international company.

GameTap wasn't user-friendly enough, IMO. Almost all the PC games were completely unplayable and they had no discretion at all in adding games. Sometimes, we would get the absolute worst imaginable additions to the library.

Wow! This should improve an already great service (Gametap). I am pessimistic of the increased price of the "new" packages though. It's about 13 British Pounds a month for the Metaboli service (according to Metaboli's website). That's roughly $24 USD a month. Now, I realize that the pricing would change but this shows the general price point that Metaboli expects their customer base will pay.