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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.

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Jun 3, 2008, 22:16

theyarecomingforyou

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Jun 3, 2008, 22:16

theyarecomingforyou

Why the fuck would I want my savegames on your servers, rather than on MY harddisk?

It stores save games on your computer, then uploads them later when an internet connection is present. I would MUCH prefer save games to be stored online, with a backup on the computer, because I've lost them on too many occasions due to system fuckups.

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