To put another nail in some of my plans for ioquake3, Quake 3 is now on Steam. This will increase the number of people playing Quake 3, but it will also put them back in the most insecure version of it, with (most likely) even less mod support

Worst of all is that for people to run secure Quake-3 servers and clients, they need to be able to extricate the gooey center from Quake 3: the pak0.pk3. This becomes difficult if it is packed away inside the GCFs Steam makes.

This also brings up another issue, why are so many games distributed un-updated on the Steam platform? If you run a dual-core machine and try out Thief, for instance, you’ll be greeted by a problem with the poor multi-cpu/core support in the underlying engine. It also effects the Deus Ex games. I don’t really care so much that these games don’t support widescreen and have upgraded graphics, just that they haven’t been retested with modern machines to at least automatically do the wackyness which makes them run on multi-core CPUs.

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