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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. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT IS KILLING PC GAMING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing CoD4 Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online).

    Not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see; if I can I'll update with them. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do.

  2. Re:Insert steam hate by Shados · · Score: -1, Troll

    We're on Slashdot.
    We have an article here, that (regardless of content, I didn't read it), has in its title something about some company doing something against piracy.

    And you're surprised to see people complain? This site might as well be hosted on the same servers as The Pirate Bay.