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.
Most of the problem is that when you close steam (in it's obvious beta form), it just reduce to your system tray instead of closing.
Right click on the tray icon and select "Exit Steam" to fully deactivate it.
So if I go play another non-steam game online, then it will use bandwith slowing down those other games. That's the kind of "sneaking up" that bothers me.
A valid concern, but steam uses "smart" bandwidth allocation. If you are using your bandwidth then it won't interfere, but if the computer is just idleing, it may download what you have told it to in the background.
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