Direct2Drive
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Direct2Drive (commonly D2D) is an online game store offering PC games via direct download.
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Vinony's link graph records 142 inbound references to Direct2Drive, and connects out to Steam, IGN and S8.
Vinony files it under Internet properties established in 2004, Online-only retailers of video games and Windows games.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Official website
- www.direct2drive.com
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- Alexa rank
- 281541
- different from
- device-to-device
- social media followers
- 7833
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 2004-00-00
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Direct2Drive (commonly D2D) is an online game store offering PC games via direct download.
== History == Launched in 2004, IGN reported "exponential growth in sales" since that time. It offered over 3,000 titles through relationships with more than 300 game publishers. Direct2Drive sponsored a $10,000 award at the Independent Games Festival called the D2D Vision Award, which "celebrated independent developers exemplifying innovation in design coupled with excellence in game-play". In 2009, the site made headlines by refusing to sell Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 due to that game's integration with Valve's Steamworks service. Users buying Modern Warfare 2 from a reseller such as Direct2Drive would be forced to also download and install the Steam client.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Direct2Drive” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.