Valve Unveils Steam Cloud

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 29, 2008 @07:37PM from the steam-cloud-haha-get-it? dept.

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."

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My thoughts as a Steam gamer... by doyoulikeworms · 2008-05-29 21:05 · Score: 0, Troll

Judging by Valve's previous offerings, this is what we can expect from Cloud: * When trying to refresh your saves list, it will freeze and display zero results most of the time. * There will be a several day delay between when your saves are made, and when they are updated remotely. * It will be impossible to find the saves you are looking for via the search function. And, without a doubt, once this feature is added, it will result in months of inexplicable game crashes fixed only by a slow trickle of patches.