One of the cool things about being in this business for a long time is that it can give you some interesting back history to point to as new stuff is brought to the tech market. Such is the case with Valve Software’s announcement today about the upcoming roll-out of its Steam Cloud. Now I remember when Steam first came out as part of the Half-Life game and just about everyone expressed their displeasure over being forced into using Steam. Fast forward to today and we have Value rolling out its own version of cloud computing for Steam members and everyone thinks it is a great idea.
The idea is that the Steam Cloud; a free extension for users of the Steam platform, is that gamers will be able to save games and mouse and keyboard setups on the Steam Cloud and then be able to access those things across multiple PCs
The Steam Cloud will “just work,” meaning any user changes to their game options will propagate to the Cloud by default. Upon logging into Steam from another PC, these settings will be brought down from the Cloud and automatically leveraged by the game. Any configuration changes on this second machine are then synced to the Cloud for future sessions.
As cool as this might be I just discovered that they accept PayPal at the Steam Store - this could be dangerous 
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