steam p2p vpn service

[DotNetDinosaur]

with gamespy going the way of the dinosaur, a lot of great titles are going to be unplayable except for single player or lan. steam can solve this.

consider hamachi, which was great software until it got bought out by logmein. you in created a virtual network could join and play games on.games that only had a lan mode.

steam could do this but in a much better way. tie the vpn to a community. each community can have one or more group.

i think this could breathe life back into a lot of old games. and if anybody can do something like this, its valve.

[Stom]

So. Steam will make their own vpn service so you don't have to use hamachi but steam itself. I think that's a great idea! I subscribed to hear more ;D

[Nawi]

引用自 PnP Bios：

with gamespy going the way of the dinosaur, a lot of great titles are going to be unplayable except for single player or lan. steam can solve this.

consider hamachi, which was great software until it got bought out by logmein. you in created a virtual network could join and play games on.games that only had a lan mode.

steam could do this but in a much better way. tie the vpn to a community. each community can have one or more group.

i think this could breathe life back into a lot of old games. and if anybody can do something like this, its valve.

i agree to the vpn idea but i think you should be able to choose who to connect to "your" vpn and who not so that this is an addition to the friend List for example:

i want to add Friend 1,3,5,6 but i dont want 2,4 to be able to connect to my computer.

if u do this via communtity there are a lot of security questions to fix because a community can have so many members and maybe u dont know some of them and do u want people you dont know sniffing around your computer / Files?

as i said above this is a great idea but in my opinion its something to add to the Friends system and not to communitys

Sorrry for my bad english i hope u can understand that

Regards Nawi

[Stom]

Nawi. Don't Worry, my english is bad to ;D

I think they should use the way hamachi is doing it. With passwords. And make your own rooms, with only your friends. And as a admin you can remove random dudes who went in your vpn server. Or you could use a invite methode. So that only you can decide who's in the server.

[Satoru]

Steam already has this. It's steamworks

[Stom]

Yes. But we want a more in depth version of steamworks.

[BloodShed]

引用自 PnP Bios：

with gamespy going the way of the dinosaur, a lot of great titles are going to be unplayable except for single player or lan. steam can solve this.

GameRanger has been supporting a lot of GameSpy Titles (and other games who's service has been shutdown) since 1999.

http://www.gameranger.com/

[Black Blade]

Well as much as i think it may be nice if it be part of Steam for now i use Evolve[www.evolvehq.com] that adds these local network like Hamachi dose (but hamachi give me problems these did not) and its a building program even more they made there orignal program that was like Hamachi before Hamachi was out XD so i really suggest to try it out
It also gives many more things and have an active Dev Staff on there

[DotNetDinosaur]

引用自 GERxXNawiXx：

i agree to the vpn idea but i think you should be able to choose who to connect to "your" vpn and who not so that this is an addition to the friend List for example:

i want to add Friend 1,3,5,6 but i dont want 2,4 to be able to connect to my computer.

if u do this via communtity there are a lot of security questions to fix because a community can have so many members and maybe u dont know some of them and do u want people you dont know sniffing around your computer / Files?

as i said above this is a great idea but in my opinion its something to add to the Friends system and not to communitys

Sorrry for my bad english i hope u can understand that

Regards Nawi

Anybody can create a community, and I believe you can have private communitites, or communities that require membership.

GameRanger has been supporting a lot of GameSpy Titles (and other games who's service has been shutdown) since 1999.

I don't use game ranger, I use steam.

I think they should use the way hamachi is doing it. With passwords. And make your own rooms, with only your friends. And as a admin you can remove random dudes who went in your vpn server. Or you could use a invite methode. So that only you can decide who's in the server.

That's the whole point of tying it to communities. You can already have public, managed, and private communities.

Steam already has this. It's steamworks

And it's awesome for games that implement it. Battlefront 2 does not implement it.

[BloodShed]

引用自 PnP Bios：

GameRanger has been supporting a lot of GameSpy Titles (and other games who's service has been shutdown) since 1999.

I don't use game ranger, I use steam.

Then enjoy playing those old games that will loose multiplayer functionality when the GameSpy servers close, because only a very few of them will ever get an update to a new system let alone Steam.

[DotNetDinosaur]

引用自 BloodShed：

引用自 PnP Bios：

I don't use game ranger, I use steam.

Then enjoy playing those old games that will loose multiplayer functionality when the GameSpy servers close, because only a very few of them will ever get an update to a new system let alone Steam.

This is the Suggestions / Ideas discussion forum right? Are you a valve employee?

[BloodShed]

引用自 PnP Bios：

引用自 BloodShed：

Then enjoy playing those old games that will loose multiplayer functionality when the GameSpy servers close, because only a very few of them will ever get an update to a new system let alone Steam.

This is the Suggestions / Ideas discussion forum right?

Yes but there is a difference between an idea that is well thought out and one that is just wish full thinking.