Half-Life's Steamy Future [Sep 07, 2003, 1:14 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post on Planet Half-Life
(thanks Frans) reproduces some quotes from Valve's Erik Johnson posted to a Steam
forum thread discussing the role of Steam in the future of Half-Life. Here
are the excerpts:
There will no longer be a WonID system, it will be replaced by the SteamID system.
When we convert the userbase to Steam, a single WonID will be valid for all of the products.
If you're purchased a product from us at retail, you're going to have access to all of our products via Steam.
No, you do not have to pay for Steam.
That is correct, you'll have to have Steam installed to play the most current version of Half-Life.
....to make this overly and horribly complex.
Amusing.
Not only do we have 3 or 4 different versions of the game, we've got this nebulous content delivery program called Steam which no one quite seems to know 100% how it's going to work as far as patches, content, and how it's actually connected to gameplay like single player, or what it all means to someone who just walks into a store and buys the singleplayer game, as opposed to someone who buys the whole thing online over Steam.
You get the feeling they said "Let's make it so people can buy Half Life 2 over the internet and download it when they buy it!" which sounds like a great idea, and then stuff kept getting added until it turned into a huge pile of yuck.
Amusing.
Not only do we have 3 or 4 different versions of the game, we've got this nebulous content delivery program called Steam which no one quite seems to know 100% how it's going to work as far as patches, content, and how it's actually connected to gameplay like single player, or what it all means to someone who just walks into a store and buys the singleplayer game, as opposed to someone who buys the whole thing online over Steam.
You get the feeling they said "Let's make it so people can buy Half Life 2 over the internet and download it when they buy it!" which sounds like a great idea, and then stuff kept getting added until it turned into a huge pile of yuck.
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