Valve Announces Remote Saving System Steamcloud
By Stephany on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 9:40 AM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Half-Life, Valve
Valve has announced that it will be introducing a new feature which will allow remote storage of all game data for games purchased through Steam, its digital distribution platform.
While Steam already allows you to play games purchases through the service on any PC, the inclusion of Steamcloud will extend that service to game data. This means that all progress saves, keyboard bindings and option settings from certain games will be able to accessed as well because all data will be automatically saved to back-end servers and kept forever at no cost to the player.
There are no storage restrictions or quotas and even video replays and screenshots taken from your games will be saved on the servers. For example, say you deleted your games off your computer along with all the save files, screen captures, videos etc, and sold your system. Two years later you buy a new system, log into Steamcloud and voila! All of your game data, purchases and the like are still there waiting on you to pick up where you left off.
The CounterStrike, Half-Life (the full series), Team Fortress 2 and the upcoming Left 4 Dead will be the first games in t he Steam catalog to offer the Steamcloud service.
Steamcloud is part of the Steamworks set of developer tools and Steam’s developer John Cook stated that many more updates are planned for the future such as:
- Auto-updating of your computer’s device drivers
- Social features including events and calendar systems
- Official community pages for games
- Pricing localized to your country’s currency
- Amazon-style recommendations and shopping cart systems
- More payment options.
For more information on this upcoming service check back with us often.
Via: GamesIndustry.biz
“Pricing localized to your country’s currency” YEAH!
“Auto-updating of your computer’s device drivers” I guess this is good for computer noobs.
I dont know if i would want a program to auto update my drivers.. Unless they know its going to be a stable driver and not have rolling crashs .. like some Grafics card company drivers on the first 1-2 days of release…
That is so fucking rad.
“# Rollett says:
May 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I dont know if i would want a program to auto update my drivers.. Unless they know its going to be a stable driver and not have rolling crashs .. like some Grafics card company drivers on the first 1-2 days of release…
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I don’t think it will auto download/install beta drivers…
I dislike the auto download drivers function. For instance, my old computer, when I first made it, had one of the first motherboards to support both AGP and PCI-Ex16. I was using an AGP card at the time, and it turns out that you had to install the video card drivers after the motherboard drivers, or the mobo would assume you were using a PCI card and it would hang on startup. This would happen if you installed other video drivers later on, too. So essentially, if I still had that system, and Valve released this, and I used it, they’d screw me out of a considerable amount of porn. Among other things. But mainly porn.
I doubt it would force you to update your drivers. I wouldn’t want them installing things automatically, although being notified there were new drivers available would be nice.