THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Borys on May 31, 2008, 06:46:00 AM

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Post by: Borys on May 31, 2008, 06:46:00 AM
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Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: Tieno on May 31, 2008, 06:47:54 AM
I've been wanting this for Xbox Live since forever and they need it more since it's harder to backup savegames. Would justify gold.

Like so many other times, Valve just makes sense.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: Tieno on May 31, 2008, 06:52:11 AM
I've been wanting this for Xbox Live since forever and they need it more since it's harder to backup savegames. Would justify gold.

Like so many other times, Valve just makes sense.

It's pretty funny cause VALVe are mostly ex-Microsoft employees :lol
Yeah :( They don't seem to be in this distinguished mentally-challenged business logic so many other companies (MS very much so) are in.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: AdmiralViscen on May 31, 2008, 10:32:49 AM
Perfect.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: T234 on June 01, 2008, 02:58:31 AM
I DIDN'T SEE THIS THREAD

PURE BUTTSECHS
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: demi on June 01, 2008, 02:59:46 AM
Wow EB sucks. Only 2 people got interested in this awesomeness.

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Valve will first be rolling this feature out to existing games like the Half-Life franchise, TF2, Counter-Strike. Left4Dead will be the first new game to remotely save your progress.

Wow cool, now I can replay HL2 for the umpteenth time with this great feature
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on June 01, 2008, 03:11:17 AM
Wow EB sucks. Only 2 people got interested in this awesomeness.

I already got excited it over my company Spam list!
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: Tieno on June 01, 2008, 08:00:45 AM
How does Valve do all of this shit for free?
Sometimes doing stuff that makes sense = profit.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: tiesto on June 01, 2008, 10:47:00 PM
Great idea, not sure why other companies haven't attempted this... Would work great with Live, I'd love to be able to access my Lost Odyssey data on a friend's console without bringing over my HD or something.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: crimsondynamics on June 01, 2008, 11:03:52 PM
This is why I give my PC gaming dollars to Valve - and gladly so. They deliver the goods, without you even knowing you wanted or needed them.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: trippingmartian on June 02, 2008, 03:42:21 AM
Kinda neat, but I'm not sure about the config file thing. If I log into Steam on my Macbook I want to play in 1280x800 and if I log in on my PC I'll want 1360x768
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: crimsondynamics on June 02, 2008, 03:47:57 AM
Kinda neat, but I'm not sure about the config file thing. If I log into Steam on my Macbook I want to play in 1280x800 and if I log in on my PC I'll want 1360x768

If the system is smart enough (and coming from these guys I expect it is) it will keep track of certain variables and change the settings depending on your system. Even now you can encounter not just resolution issues across machines, but performance issues as well (graphic detail, EAX, DX9 vs DX10 options).

Actually, scratch that: Given DX9 and DX10 differences, the system must take into account not only configuration but  also such instances of incompatibility.
Title: Re: Steam - Keeping Your Save Games Online Soon
Post by: trippingmartian on June 02, 2008, 03:49:03 AM
It'll definitely be awesome being able to jump from one computer to the next and have a seamless gameplay session, regardless of where you are.