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Valve emits Steam Cloud syncing service Nov. 6

by Randy Nelson on Nov 3rd 2008 11:30PM

Announced in May, Valve's Steam Cloud service will be up-and-running in time for the arrival of the Left 4 Dead demo – at least for those who've pre-ordered the game – on Thursday, Nov. 6. Steam Cloud will store player's settings for individual games server-side, so that they can start playing with their preferences (keyboard, mouse, etc.) intact from any PC with the Steam client installed.

Left 4 Dead will be the first game to ship with Steam Cloud support built-in; Valve plans to patch older titles to play nice with the service, and is sharing its code with Steam publisher and developer partners at no cost. The service is similar in some ways to Apple's MobileMe "cloud" based email, contacts, and calendar syncing ... hopefully, Valve's creation will actually work as advertised.

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Tags: left-4-dead, PC, steam, steam-cloud, valve

Reader Comments (31)

This would have been awesome when I switched computers last month.

Well, at least it's one less thing to have to do when THIS one dies. Awesome.

That was pretty cruel. The first thing I saw was the picture of Cloud. I was like "What about Cloud?!" Then I saw the Steam part and was like... "F***".

Go away.

Not an FF7 fan?

To be honest i though it was FF related as well till i read it. =D

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You can stay.

befitting name you have there.

Valve is one game company that you can count on for making quality products and improving them as they go along.

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My keyboard controls are default for most Steam games...Valve has a way with great control schemes.

What I'd really like to see is a service that can sync saved games between computers

The only thing I change is the text chat from 't' to 'Enter' since I play a lot of StarCraft and WarCraft III.

Steam Cloud is going to sync saved games eventually. That feature just wasn't ready in time for launch.

Ah, I was about to say that I thought that was what Steam Cloud was doing.. and that it was missing from the article.

I thought: FF7 on Steam? well for $5.99 I'll bite

then I saw it was something completely different.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WOIwlXE9g

Lolz

Dam You Stiq....Joy..NO joy....Ok I'll say it Joystiq...Must you toture a FF7 Fan... who has deep memories of FF7 ON PC (Not PSX) with Sharp Graphics..... BTW what the Hell is Stoping SquareSoft-Enix from doing this with Valve.. FF7 & FF8.
Probly Lazyness or Pride.

Valve has went and created by far the greatest DRM platform. Imagine that...allows you to play on ANY computer as long as the Steam client is installed...it allows you to DOWNLOAD THE GAME if that computer doesn't have it. I wish EA and friends would learn a thing or two about how successful and well accepted the Steam client is.

Valve games have been the only games I've bought...the rest were pirated because of their overly restrictive DRMs.

Which is why I am happy to buy downloads from Steam but won't use the other services: Direct2Drive, EA's own, etc.

Now, if only the European publishers (Atari/Infogrames and Ubisoft) would let their European customers buy their catalogues of Steam, as per their American customers, then I would be buying Beyond Good & Evil and the like.

Amen.

Before I bought my XBox 360 I assumed this was how XBox Live Gold worked with downloaded Arcade games and Saved preferences (and the reason for the $50 a year.)

Sadly I was very very wrong.

Actually, Ubisoft is on steam, with Beyond Good and Evil. I don't know if any of their other games are on steam, but that one is.

he said 'make their games available to European customers'

3/10 for reading, try harder next time

see and i thought when i saw that picture that valve might have purchased the rights to ff7 and were making a pc and 360 only sequel.

Damn you Joystiq with your misleading photoshoped pics. For a second I thought it was an announcement that steam would be distributing square enix games. I really wouldnt care anyway since i dont play pc games, but still, it would have been big news.

It took me 2 seconds to understand the picture, then I was rolling on the floor.

Do you have epilepsy?

I always play using the default settings so this doesn't mean much to me. If only they'd do the same thing with save games, that would be awesome.

Valve is awesome. Period.

In order to avoid further confusion, I suggest switching Cloud (FF7) with the Cloud smiley guys from Mario.

Valve is going to distribute Mario Games? WooooHooo !!

What's with all the ff7 fanboys?

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