Steam Guard Beta

[Mar 05, 2011, 6:13 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Valve's just announced Steam Guard system is now in beta. Word is: "As a Steam account holder, you can now take advantage of this additional level of account security, further prohibiting others from gaining access to your account. As a beta participant, once you've verified your email address with Steam, Steam Guard becomes available for your use and is enabled for your Steam account by default." To demonstrate the security this provides, Gabe Newell gives out his username and password at Cebit (thanks VG247 via Reddit).

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Re: Steam Guard Beta

Mar 6, 2011, 20:40

MoreLuckThanSkill

SpectralMeat wrote on Mar 6, 2011, 20:17: Steam guard is an optional feature. The hardware DRM is only available for people with 2nd gen Intel Core I CPUs. Do you really think that publishers will add a DRM scheme to their games that is not even available on anything but the 2nd gen Intel CPUs? That would be a major waste of time and money. Lets say they do as you say and lock your games to a single CPU. What if you replace your CPU to a different one? Your games are no longer available to you? I am having a hard time believing this. You are thinking about today, but what about in a year or more? Do you think AMD won't also release some compatible CPU in the future, if there is even a hint Intel might make some money? I can easily see hardware based DRM systems getting rammed down user throats because of piracy fears in the future. Hell, look at what they have done in the recent past, with Ubisoft and EA games with constant online requirements, for single player. Does that seem reasonable? Of course not, but they did it anyway. It's early on, but I am more concerned with the possible misuse of 'features' like this than I am with whatever possible benefits people may get from enhanced security. The real tragedy will be in a year or two when people are praising CoD9 or Dragon Age 3 or whatever because "it's protected, only my computer can play it, dude!"

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Mar 5, 19:59	Re: Steam Guard Beta	jimnms
	2.	Mar 5, 20:50	Re: Steam Guard Beta	eRe4s3r
	3.	Mar 5, 21:59	Re: Steam Guard Beta	KilrathiAce
	4.	Mar 5, 22:31	Re: Steam Guard Beta	Kajetan
	5.	Mar 5, 22:47	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill
	6.	Mar 6, 04:37	Re: Steam Guard Beta	DarkCntry
	7.	Mar 6, 07:48	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill
	8.	Mar 6, 08:35	Re: Steam Guard Beta	DarkCntry
	9.	Mar 6, 08:44	Re: Steam Guard Beta	Overon
	10.	Mar 6, 09:55	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill
	11.	Mar 6, 10:07	Re: Steam Guard Beta	SpectralMeat
	15.	Mar 6, 19:24	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill
	16.	Mar 6, 20:17	Re: Steam Guard Beta	SpectralMeat
>>	17.	Mar 6, 20:40	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill
	18.	Mar 6, 21:06	Re: Steam Guard Beta	SpectralMeat
	19.	Mar 6, 22:31	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill
	12.	Mar 6, 12:19	Re: Steam Guard Beta	Rockn-Roll
	14.	Mar 6, 17:57	Re: Steam Guard Beta	jimnms
	13.	Mar 6, 13:59	Re: Steam Guard Beta	vacs
	20.	Mar 7, 09:07	Re: Steam Guard Beta	Verno
	21.	Mar 7, 12:17	Re: Steam Guard Beta	MoreLuckThanSkill