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Valve Takes on Piracy With Free, Pre-Packaged Game Publishing Tools

Posted by Zonk on from the stamping-out-the-bad-stuff dept.

Heartless Gamer writes "Valve is rocking the boat in a big way, especially for PC gaming piracy. They have just announced the release of a complete collection of publisher tools, called Steamworks. They're making it available to developers and publishers completely free. Valve notes that beyond simply making the product available to consumers some of the tools can integrate copy protection, social networking services, or even server browsing features into a developing game."

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  1. Finally! by PopeGumby · · Score: 3, Funny

    social networking services

    After all these years, my dreams of playing as a violent, gun-toting, car-stealing, cop-killing psycopath who uses MySpace to invite all his BFFs to his Sweet-16 party is coming true.

    As a longtime XboxLive user, I'd prefer it if they were reducing the amount of social networking in games, rather than increasing it.

  2. Smart one by obeythefist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because copy protection has never been broken before, making it free will mean that game copying will stop forever. Just like how DRM ceased all music and video copyright infringement.

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