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Steam Cloud Launches This Week

Posted by Soulskill on from the names-that-are-puns dept.

Valve announced yesterday that their extension of Steam, called Steam Cloud, will launch later this week with the Left 4 Dead demo. Steam Cloud is "a set of services for Steam that stores application data online and allows user experiences to be consistent from any PC." We discussed an early announcement for it back in May. Valve adds that "Steam Cloud will be available to all publishers and developers using Steam, free of charge, and Valve will add Cloud support to its back catalog of Steam games. Cloud services are compatible with games purchased via Steam, at retail, and other digital outlets."

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  1. The only service by martinw89 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the only service where I won't get pissed off about that god awful buzzword "cloud". Puns make the world a better place.

    1. Re:The only service by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Just wait until you actually try to use it.

      I'll let someone else be the guinea pig. I've been burned by this sort of thing before.

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  2. Re:Interesting... by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The thing is, Steam, though DRM, isn't anything like as intrusive as SECUROM...Hell, it even provides features that are actually useful, this service being another example of same. Install Steam on a new machine, log in, and have it rebuild your whole setup. That's pretty cool.

    That's why people put up with Steam.

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