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.
You know I dont' even think Valve has thought of this idea. What if when you turn on your computer for the day that it checks to see if a new version is out.
If so then notify the user with a dialog box stating that a newer version is out and "Do you wish to install it now?" prompt. This way if they know that there are servers out there that have not upgraded yet they can still play and wait later when they are not in the mood.
This also takes in to account that what if Valve releases a bad patch. Then everyone is screwed and can't play until the next patch fixes the patch.
If so then notify the user with a dialog box stating that a newer version is out and "Do you wish to install it now?" prompt. This way if they know that there are servers out there that have not upgraded yet they can still play and wait later when they are not in the mood.
This also takes in to account that what if Valve releases a bad patch. Then everyone is screwed and can't play until the next patch fixes the patch.
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