Posted: 31-01-08 In: Steam By: DigiQ8 | (6) comments | Add your comments


RPS had an interview with Doug Lombardi about Valve's recent announcement Steamworks.

RPS: Unified PC gaming through Steam?

Lombardi: “Unified” is a word that all kinds of groups and consortiums push about, but the thing is just that we have a system that we’ve tried and we’re using for thirteen million people. It makes sense for developers to just have access to this stuff that is essential, but no great design challenge – the copy protection, the server browser – and the motivation for us is that if a game uses our encryption and sells millions of copies, all those people who didn’t already have a Steam account have to make one. Once they’re there we can talk to them and turn them on to all the other games on Steam.

You can read the interview here.