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On November 6, 2008, Valve’s Steam Cloud service launched with the Left 4 Dead demo (full game releases November 18, 2008). Left 4 Dead is the first game that will utilize Steam Cloud support while Valve has plans to patch older titles to use the player syncing service. Valve also plans to release the code to developers for free. What nice guys they are!

The service will work with Steam, retail, and other outlets including Good Old Games.

Steam Cloud allows players to store individual settings for PC games server-side, enabling them to log in from any computer (assuming the computer already has the Steam client already installed) and play with their customized settings for “keyboard, mouse, and gamepads”  without going through the hassle of resetting configurations every time.  A nifty service for PC players, indeed. Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve, was quoted in the press release as saying:

For some time now, Steam has allowed gamers to log on from any computer in the world and access their applications. This also makes it easy to upgrade a PC without worrying about losing your games.”

If that’s not a ringing endorsement for the new service, I don’t know what would be. Now that it’s out, what do you PC players think? Does it really make things as easy it sounds? Let us know in the comments below.

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