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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. Valve and piracy by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 4, Informative

    They don't really have anything to worry about- their madly popular titles are all multiplayer so piracy is impossible and "cracked" servers are rarely of any quality..

    1. Re:Valve and piracy by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 4, Informative

      Do you still think Portal's price is unfair when it's part of Orange Box? Counter-Strike: Source and TF2 are both worth a full $50 but they've always retailed at $20 and $30. Episode 2 is worth eh $20. So portal's free per valve's pricing, and TF2 is disounted the entire price of portal for what I would pay for it!