F1 2013 F1 2013 Pre Order Available On Steam

[Dan Hawkins]

Steam has just announced the availability of F1 2013 as a preorder on Steam.

Will you order yours today?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223670/

Make history in FORMULA ONE™! F1™ 2013 features all the cars, stars and circuits from the 2013 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™ plus, for the first time, classic content.


Available: 4 October 2013
This game will unlock in approximately 1 month, 1 week, 2 days and 19 hours

 

[kelaroost]

Its saying the coupon is now unlocked..
50% off Coupon for aCodemastersGame
A coupon for 50% OFF any Codemasters game on Steam. Excludes F1 2013™.

Anyone know where you can find this coupon ? I cant seem to find it

 

[Graham Laing]

Have a look at the small-print at the bottom of the offer.

You will not get the any unlock until the NEXT unlock target is reached. Even when that happens, it will not be necessary immediately after reaching that target.

Level 1 - F1 Race Stars Game

Level 2 - 50% coupon ---->>> F1 Race Stars game could unlock at any time

Level 3 - Free F1 2012 ---->>> 50% coupon could unlock at any time, and I guess F1 2012 also

Small-print

*Rewards will be back-filled once we reach the next level.
**Tier rewards may not be granted immediately after reaching the goal.

Steam Page

The will probably turn up in you Steam Inventory with a message pop-up. Use the 'envelope' icon at the top of the Steam application (next to your account name)

 

[Graham Laing]

Interesting ...... today on Steam I actually received the Level 2 50% off coupon, but haven't got the level 1 F1 Race Stars give-away yet.

Pretty random eh?

 

[kelaroost]

Interesting ...... today on Steam I actually received the Level 2 50% off coupon, but haven't got the level 1 F1 Race Stars give-away yet.

Pretty random eh?

Dam I got mine,
I woudnt worry about it because the games pretty crap anyway

 

[Graham Laing]

It can always be gifted to someone who has kids.

I will have to check the terms and conditions of the 50% coupon, and how long it is valid for. Sure you can't use it to buy another copy of F1 2013, but what about F1 2014 in a years time?

 

[Graham Laing]

OK important note to everyone who gets the 50% off coupon for any Codemasters game.

It has a very short validity, my one states :-

Valid until Mon Nov 11 2013 07:59:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

So only two months until it expires .......

 

[Graham Laing]

For some reason F1 Race Stars was hidden in my un-installed games, I just display my installed games in Steam normally.

So I received no notification that a new game was in my inventory. So I never got the choice to give it away. Oh well, never mind

 

[kelaroost]

same here I didn't have the option to gift it.
I found that strange myself.

 

[Yawama]

Going to pre-order on GMG to save a few more bucks. In total I believe I would save around 20 USD, which is good enough for me

 

[kelaroost]

Going to pre-order on GMG to save a few more bucks. In total I believe I would save around 20 USD, which is good enough for me

There the same price I think.

http://oi44.tinypic.com/xpnbb7.jpg

 

[kelaroost]

I think you brought the standard edition hence the lower price but I might be wrong.

 

[Yawama]

Nope, the classic edition. I also added the 25% off coupon GMG25-4T2A7-4HOQ2, which knocks it down to 43.87 USD saving me 21 bucks.

 

[kelaroost]

ahhhh ok nice one.
I wish I did this I would of saved myself 20 pounds gratz

 

[realitychecked]

Well, I'm not going to pre-order it but I will buy the Classic Edition. strange isn't it

 

[mizz]

hello everybody,

so my question for now is: i cant find any infos on when to download the game.
as for the huge file size i think it would make sense to start the download earlier. (only have a 3Mbit connection due to some provider issues).
it would take days for me.

anybody knows when the download is open?
thanks for your answers and comments...

Greets Andi

 

[Graham Laing]

On Steam they usually pre-load games a few days, or perhaps as much as a week in advance. This helps them as well as you, as it reduces the strain on their servers, when the actual release day come around.

When the time comes for pre-load, there is usually a pre-load button that becomes available for you to click, within the Steam client.

If we assume that the game is similar in size as F1 2012, at around 10 GB, then that would take around 11.5 hours @ 2 Mbits, or around 7.5 hours @ 3 Mbits.

As you normally have days to carry out the download in advance, then it shouldn't be a problem for you. Steam will just do it's job in the background, you also don't have to do it all in one day. You can can shut down your PC and resume the download at another time.

Cheers

 

[mizz]

On Steam they usually pre-load games a few days, or perhaps as much as a week in advance. This helps them as well as you, as it reduces the strain on their servers, when the actual release day come around.

When the time comes for pre-load, there is usually a pre-load button that becomes available for you to click, within the Steam client.

If we assume that the game is similar in size as F1 2012, at around 10 GB, then that would take around 11.5 hours @ 2 Mbits, or around 7.5 hours @ 3 Mbits.

As you normally have days to carry out the download in advance, then it shouldn't be a problem for you. Steam will just do it's job in the background, you also don't have to do it all in one day. You can can shut down your PC and resume the download at another time.

Cheers

thank you very much for your detailed answer.

 

[Graham Laing]

No problem.

Another possibility is to buy the Standard Edition on disk, and if you want the Classic Edition, you just buy the Classic DLC via Steam on day one.

How much downloading required is debatable, because nobody is sure how they will do it this year, with 2 editions of the game.

Last year with F1 2012, when you bought it on PC DVD, it was only half the game. The disk installed around 4.5 GB of the game, then when you registered the game on Steam, there was another 5GB download to complete the game.

With F1 2013 Standard Edition this year, will they do the same? Or will they put all of the game on a Double Density disk, or 2 DVD set?

Whatever you do, there will be less downloading in total if you choose the PC DVD disk option, then upgrade to Classic Edition via Steam if you wish.

If you just want the Standard Edition, it could all be on disk, or more likely half of it will be, therefore cutting your download size in half.

Hope this isn't confusing .....

 

[mizz]

no it isnt...
i already preordered the game for about 45 euros inluding all DLCs.
if the pre-load option would not become avaliable, i will take my notebook, go to my paretnts and download it there.

steam is cheaper than regular, but that are the disadvantages (10gB in total)...

thank you for your kind support.


Cheers andi

 

[wizzard]

Hi
I am checking to see if i purchase the game from steam, can i download it on another computer the files only and then install it on my computer? The reason why is that i could download it faster at work then home, thus saving time and bandwith. So i would download it on work save it on disk and install it at home.
Thanks