SEIV via Steam

[geoschmo]

Arkcon said:
I suppose the question, for me and maybe some other people, is if Malfador's contract with Strategy First, or Valve would ever force Malfador to require STEAM for the game to function, maybe even going as fas as to shutdown the PBW site, or even remove play-by-email from the game code.

I cannot even imagine a set of circumstances that would have that as the end result. But I suppose if it were to happen we could just roll the PBW server back to only supporting version 1.91 and before. Since that was published by Shrapnel I can't see that SF or Valve would have any say in whether people could use PBW for that.

I'm not even sure Malfador or Shrapnel could legally force PBW to stop allowing players to play even if they were taken over by evil mind-controlling aliens who had it in for us. I'm pretty sure we are well within the boundaries of "fair-use". Of course if a publisher were to take a little fan-run site like PBW to court the side with the money would probably win, regardless of what was actually legally correct.