Steam Cloud Plans [May 29, 2008, 10:12 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Maximum PC has a report on an event where Valve unveiled new features
planned for an upcoming Steam update, including automatic driver updates for
hardware and an integrated system requirements checker for games. Here's a bit
on the Steam Cloud:
Community enhancements include improved event planning – RSVP, calendar functions, and official communities are all part of the feature list. Gamers will be able to coordinate tournaments, use calendars to check up on their friends, and join communities set up by game publishers and developers.
The biggest news is that game-generated data will now be stored with your Steam accounts in Valve servers. This includes game profiles, configuration settings, and even savegames! Valve will first be rolling this feature out to existing games like the Half-Life franchise, TF2, Counter-Strike. Left4Dead will be the first new game to remotely save your progress.
No one that visits BN would ASK for it...
Speak for yourself. Just because someone wants a feature out of convenience doesn't make them a sheep. You must be reading too many of Jerykks 'I'm a PC snob' posts.
Personally I was wishing this feature existed before they even mentioned that it was something they were looking into adding into Steam (roughly a year ago?). I don't want to micro-manage my save games and configs. It's a PITA. I've lost saves from formats, hard drive crashes, unable to find all related files when backing up, etc.
Features like this and the driver updates are sure to be toggle controlled by the user. I won't use the driver update feature but I'll definitely use the save game, config storage.
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