Valve Unveils Steam Cloud

Erik J tips us to news of Valve's announcement that their content distribution system, Steam, will receive an update "in the near future" called Steam Cloud. The new service will allow users to save games and configuration settings online. According to MaximumPC: "This system will be completely transparent to the user. The files cache locally, and will upload when Steam detects an internet connection. There will be no restrictions on users - no save quotas or file management - the system will 'just work.' Any Steamwork game will be able to support these features, and it'll be free for customers and developers."

Comments

Re:A great adea

[Vectronic]

"I've loved the fact that I can access my Steam games anywhere (like from work ;), but hated that I couldn't continue my saved games..."

Steam evaporates. Its very hard to save it.

"Valve Unveils Steam Cloud" ... come on... that should have been "Valve Releases Steam Cloud"... then we could say stupid shit like "well close the damn valve!"

Valve

[Anonymous Coward]

Is consistently late with consistently stellar products.

I know I'm a happy customer... eventually!

Re:Finally!

[dintech]

when I reformat my PC (which tends to be every couple months)

Solidarity brother. I'm a windows user too. :(

Re:A great adea

[SnowZero]

"Valve Unveils Steam Cloud" ... come on... that should have been "Valve Releases Steam Cloud"... Yes but at the moment this new version of Steam is just vaporware. Thus I'll leave mine on the back burner until new Steam is produced.

Re:Not to mention

[debatem1]

Not on my network, it doesnt.

In other news...

[pokeyburro]

...CowboyNeal Unveils: Methane Cloud.