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- zdiddy85, on 05/30/2008, -4/+60http://digg.com/gaming_news/Valve_Announces_Steam_ ...
- Scape89, on 05/31/2008, -0/+37As long as Valve keeps making great games I'll be happy, that's what really matters.
- Nobiting, on 05/31/2008, -3/+35Thanks Mr. Baby Man! I totally forgot about this news between now and when it was on the digg homepage yesterday!
- tj111, on 05/30/2008, -12/+43I wish they would at least store saved game files. I was ~80% through Half Life 2 when my Windows install got corrupted (causing my move to Linux). I installed Steam and Half-Life 2 on Ubuntu, but couldn't get myself to play through the majority of the game just to finish the story. If I had access to my previously saved game, I could of finished the game and probably would have bought the Orange Box to get parts 1 and 2.
To bad they didn't comment on the rumored Linux port of Steam and the Source engine. - rukeypoo, on 05/31/2008, -3/+28What's newsworthy about this? Steamcloud was announced yesterday and made it to the front page. And I'm sure everybody on this site is aware of the marketplace, friends, chatting, etc that Steam already has.
- Trixrox, on 05/31/2008, -1/+22They just need to store my COD 4 profile....etc.
Steam is great, I just hope they never go away, because my games will go too :P - Wartz, on 05/31/2008, -2/+19its MrBabyMan. He routinely reposts stuff that was already posted and frontpaged 1 day/week ago to get it frontpaged himself.
I just bury everything he posts. - inactive, on 05/31/2008, -5/+21I thought MrBabyMan quit.
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -8/+23Buried for MrBabySpam. I'm glad this is getting traction and now his submissions are quickly dropping off the front page. It's a shame they make it there to begin with.
- mariano, on 05/31/2008, -4/+18He'll never quit, attention whores are like that.
- Froejam, on 05/31/2008, -2/+16Dude you have no soul if you can't play half life 2 more than once.
- rishubhav, on 05/30/2008, -0/+14Steam already runs really well through Wine, the only probably is a bug with the Friends menu that results in not being able to see friend's chat. If that were fixed I would seriously consider completely moving to Linux
- nogami, on 05/31/2008, -0/+12According to the article, it will store save games as well as configurations, etc.
- ramenite, on 05/31/2008, -0/+10Yes, play through it again to finish it! Once you know where to go and what to do, the game does play a lot faster. Episodes 1 & 2 are a direct continuing of HL2, so you need to finish HL2 to really understand what's going on.
I'm not a fan of FPS games in general, but HL2 has to be one of my favorite games. I can't think of another game, that takes you through driving a jetski, tossing grenades at gun placements, a zombie hunt though an old eastern European city, and then end up on fighting robots with rocket launchers. And combining it all into a good storyline so it makes sense.
And whomever it was at Valve, who thought of the gravity gun, so you can pick up saw blades to cut zombies in half is a genius. - legoalert33, on 05/31/2008, -0/+8sv_cheats 1
sv_unlockedchapters 15 - sexybobo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+6When was the last time you used steam? It had its problem when it started in 2003 but for the last 4 years it has been rock solid.
- Anpheus, on 05/31/2008, -0/+6You should have pulled off your data with a LiveCD. Windows can be corrupt without the NTFS partition being corrupt (and NTFS tends to be difficult to totally corrupt.)
- AdmiralAcbar, on 05/31/2008, -0/+5They recently announced a savegame feature that will upload all your savegames.
- RockeN5, on 05/31/2008, -0/+4Did you read the article before commenting? The Steam Cloud will save all your settings and saved games so you can access them from anywhere.
- blazer425, on 05/30/2008, -1/+5I've been waiting for this to come. It's really annoying to go and reinstall everything and then have to play through a game all over again for the bonus content at the end.
- SniperDevil, on 05/31/2008, -1/+5About time there is a central save server in the works. With the amount they have already done to steam, Would have expected it earlier. But steam is odd.
- AzzX, on 05/31/2008, -1/+5Select run in offline in options.
- Brasky, on 05/31/2008, -3/+7I love the platform, but it really pissed me off a few weeks ago. I moved into my new place and had to wait 4 days for the cable to be installed (no internet). So I thought I would finally play through episodes 1 and 2 that I installed with Orange Box about 4 months ago. Well, apparently steam needs the internet to let me play my own damn game that I legitimately bought. What total *****. ***** DRM.
- zeebo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+4We shouldn't be treated like second-class citizens because we use linux. Game companies should support us with native versions. It makes sense after all since Windows gamers now pirate heavily and linux is a largely un-tapped market which they could use to grow to counteract the piracy rather than impose increasingly draconian drm schemes upon users. Even if Linux is a smaller market, its users are on average more technically savvy and more likely to be interested in computer gaming.
- mark076h, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3i don't see anything slowing down?
- benologist, on 05/31/2008, -1/+4I think that's why Digg makesi t possible to "go back in time" and see older stuff via those page links at the bottom of the lists.
- sfriedlander, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3The Final Battle: Valve Vs. EA
- Paradoxymoron, on 05/31/2008, -0/+3"and join my fanclub."
- SubjectiveC, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Three days ago, there were 3 submissions of his on the front page simultaneously (not counting the top submissions). I don't see the slowdown either.
- elambing, on 05/31/2008, -1/+3most people arent going to be moving continents on a regular basis...
- sexybobo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2When you have internet launch steam click file then click "go offline". You only need to be connected to the internet to install the game get the first update and launch the game the first time.
Also it says on the box and in the agreement when you install steam that a broadband connection is required. - xjeffx, on 05/31/2008, -1/+3I'm a big steam fan now. I just purchased the Orange Box the other day when I got my new iMac and installed XP on it. I stopped using my old PC about 2 years ago and my days of playing CS: Source went with it. I've moved and couldn't find my disks for HL2 and CS but after I installed Steam & the Orange Box, it let me re-download both of them for free since I had already activated them. Pretty cool!
- Yarnage, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2Your games won't "go away". Valve has stated that if something were to ever happen to them they have in place a [tested] system that will disable all protections on all of your games so you can continue to play and enjoy them.
- sabroskie, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2I vote for Valve.
- Amablue, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2Even if Valve was serious about supporting their games on Linux, they'd probably do it by improving Wine. It's cheaper. Valve isn't a very large company, and it would be much easier to make sure it plays well under wine than to port the whole game over to Linux.
- frozensnake, on 05/31/2008, -1/+3wasn't this already on the front page?
- Chicken, on 05/31/2008, -0/+2You should ask them to give you your CD key for any games you purchased through steam.. I had to personally ask them so they could give it to me. I'd rather they give it to me once I purchase it.
- sfriedlander, on 05/31/2008, -1/+3ya grow some balls and use it
- inactive, on 05/31/2008, -1/+3Damn that thumbnail i thought there would be mention about the new pyro weapons. Yea does anyone know a release date or something for that i check steam and digg everyday for word.
- keatonkeaton998, on 05/31/2008, -2/+4Doesn't seem like there is a lot of big news here. The best featured of this is to be able to download and install your games on to any PC using your account, and that's been around on Steam for years.
- zeebo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1They can support most of their games by porting the Source engine over. Most of the heavy lifting is already done since steam and source's major components all already work on linux since they exploit it for servers, and they already have a OpenGL/AL/SDL backends from the PS3 support.
- Aensland, on 05/31/2008, -1/+2Listen to yourself. You think it's easy to port code? And you getting fired if you don't write portable code is your company's policy, where I work the clients all run windows so by god they're getting windows code... nobody gives a damn if I write a mac port in fact i'd probably get in trouble for wasting time. It's not discrimination. It's called the ***** bottomline. Your company pays you to write portable code, fine. Other companies happen not to. Got a problem with that? Take it up with them.
You try write game code for linux and then see how well tech support handles clients with various distros. There's plenty of reasons many companies even big ones haven't made the plunge into supporting linux yet.
It's like people complaining why Sony's PS consoles don't play Nintendo games, "omfg discrimination". What the *****. - zeebo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1So in your book its ok to discriminate against minorities because there are fewer of them to complain? I have taken it up with them, and I don't tend to spend money on games from developers who don't pay attention to linux. Considering I spend quite a bit on gaming that's definitely to their disadvantage. A company should pursue money from every group that it can because thats why it exists. Keep this in mind: Linux users keep two different companies afloat who let them run games. That is cash that could be directly in the pockets of the game developers rather than those third parties.
I have written game code for linux, its incredibly easy to support just about every flavor of unix that is out there currently by using the latest versions of some very good libraries and following a few simple rules. Id does it, Epic used to do it, Penny Arcade have done it, why do you think its difficult?
Oh and its religious discrimination, my religion requires me to use Slackware because its the least pink option. - sewerraccoon, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1PC gaming is strong and growing because of developers like Valve. They've got a great content delivery system, great games, relations with third parties to distribute their games. Valve has truly evolved with the times, and deserve every bit of praise they receive (and then some :-)
- zeebo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1That would be awesome since it would let me play the same game and move seamlessly from my home machine, to my laptop, and maybe even to a micro-laptop, a handheld in a few years (I wonder if this would apply to the console versions too) well if all the machines mentioned weren't linux machines that is.
When are Valve (and other game developers) going to stop pretending that minorities don't exist? If a store were to decide that just because a group is a minority they don't have to serve them we'd all go berserk (like what happened recently with that ford dealership recently), I don't really see how its different when it comes to game software. If the software that I write didn't work equally well on windows mac and linux I'd lose my job, why is it that game companies get a free pass to discriminate? - sexybobo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1impulse 101
idspispopd - gettarat, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1If I had access to my previously saved game, I could of finished the game and probably would have bought the Orange Box to get parts 1 and 2.
http://quitsmokingclub.org - sexybobo, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1Um valve bought WON the steam like program that seira used. They did improve it a lot and added more features but it is just an improvement on a network that was around before they started steam.
Also before steam they were a great developer and while steam has helped them understand what the community wants it mostly just made them a great publisher as well. - MeltingIce, on 05/31/2008, -1/+2Um... did you even read the article? No you can't do this with Steam already.
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