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

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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Re:Valve and piracy

[bigstrat2003]

More power to you, I guess. I felt like Valve has thoroughly raped the wallet of anyone who chose to purchase the game stand-alone (which I did, for better or worse): it's a really, really short game, which provides nowhere near $20 worth of entertainment, in my book. Excellent game, horribly overpriced.