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 don't have to run steam on startup.
Funny, when I installed the Steam beta, it not only set itself to run on startup, it also didn't bother telling me it was doing so (my security app notified me).
This won't stop piracy anyway, at least not for single player. HL2 is such a long awaited game that it'll be cracked and online probably before it hits the shops. Personally I want to buy it, but Steam makes me slightly uncomfortable - I hate software running on my machine that I'm not in control of, and something quietly deciding to download stuff in the background sounds like the kind of thing i detest.
Funny, when I installed the Steam beta, it not only set itself to run on startup, it also didn't bother telling me it was doing so (my security app notified me).
This won't stop piracy anyway, at least not for single player. HL2 is such a long awaited game that it'll be cracked and online probably before it hits the shops. Personally I want to buy it, but Steam makes me slightly uncomfortable - I hate software running on my machine that I'm not in control of, and something quietly deciding to download stuff in the background sounds like the kind of thing i detest.
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