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Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:31pm 25/03/09 | 18 Comments
 "Delivering this extension of services on Steamworks first anniversary, demonstrates our commitment to continually develop the platform to better serve the community working with these tools," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "As we roll out these features, we continue to look for new ways make PC games easier to create and better for customers to experience."The press release details services such as support for DLC, Matchmaking and Customer Executable Generation (CEG), a "customer friendly approach to anti-piracy," that "makes unique copies of games for each user allowing them to access the application on multiple machines without install limits and without having to install root kits on their PC". Hit the link above for the full release. Tags: steam 
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Posted 12:36pm 25/3/09
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Posted 12:52pm 25/3/09
umm...?
Posted 01:02pm 25/3/09
If I got even a small fraction of their deals I'd end up with multiples of quite a few games, plus others which I don't want, not to mention games I might buy and then later decide I've had enough of.
Also I've got a mate who got his Steam account banned for cheating... ON A GAME HE NEVER EVEN OWNED.
Zero tolerance is fine if you've got a perfect system. Unfortunately VAC isn't perfect and Valve won't listen even to incontrovertible proof that the system has failed.
Other than that, I really like what's happening with Steam.
It even lets me log onto my mate's account and play his games, effectively like lending the disc since you can't both play it at the same time.
Posted 01:06pm 25/3/09
Fantasy land, this will never happen
Posted 01:11pm 25/3/09
Physically you can do that, yes, but it's against the Terms of Use detailed in the Steam Subscriber Agreement as follows
Posted 01:17pm 25/3/09
They say that just to protect themselves against people who complain that their accounts have been stolen?
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Posted 01:54pm 25/3/09
Posted 02:36pm 25/3/09
try being less pov;
Posted 02:51pm 25/3/09
Posted 02:56pm 25/3/09
Posted 03:05pm 25/3/09
not quite.. VAC bans are game ENGINE based. If you get banned playing 1.6 for example, you will be banned from HalfLife, DOD, tfc and other hl 1 engine based games, but you can still play CoD5/Source/other games that don't use the hl engine. It is possible to be VAC banned for a game you don't own if you got caught using cheats in another game that used the same engine.
Posted 03:14pm 25/3/09
Posted 03:47pm 25/3/09
So your complanit is, that their deals are so good, that you've bought parts of the packs before?
I don't think thats a detractor to the system. I would probably never have bought portal on its own, but as part of the orange box, i got it, turned out to be the game of the year.
As to your point about not being able to pawn the game back to EB/JB, quite often you buy the game on steam for significantly less than you do at retail. But i don't think you'll ever be able to sell the games through steam, as the game developers/publishers never see any money from the second hand trade that EB/JB do. I don't think they'd be keen to possibly alienate publishers by doing that.
Posted 07:12pm 25/3/09
Posted 08:18pm 25/3/09
Doesn't address the problem of being unable to lend games to people or have multiple people in the same house play different games you own online, since only one account can be logged in regardless of how many games you bought. I guess that's intentional though :/
I wonder if they'll start renting games next? That'd be an interesting endeavour that's made easier by their latest addition to the DRM (i.e. use a keyed executable that expires).
That's not a good thing though, Left4Dead's matchmaking system leaves much to be desired.
Posted 08:21pm 25/3/09
It is balls that we have to pay an unfair bit more then most other places around the world simply because Australia is awesome. I call it the Awesome Tax.
Posted 11:05pm 25/3/09
I do okay in FPS games that require a bit of strategic thinking though, like TimeShift.