I've gone over this a few times and I think it boils down to 3 possible reasons from info on various forums.
1. Some hackers thought they could use the code on 30th Sept to gain credit card details of steam users and create havoc in the excitement of the release. Because their plan was foiled they release the source to spite Valve.
2. For the shear kudos of hacking Valve, social engineering them and stealing their code.
3. An inside job by Publishers who don't like the concept of steam and the fact it will in effect cut them out of the loop. Sounds far fetched but just read the book, The Blue Nowhere. I certainly won't be giving my credit card details to steam in the near future.
At the end of the day, it sucks. Okay we moan about Valve, how much money they make, how they treat us like shit. But stealing 5 years worth of work from a company that has brought nothing but joy to the millions of fans out there is going one step to far. Moan at them, call them names but hack them - no this has gone too far...
1. Some hackers thought they could use the code on 30th Sept to gain credit card details of steam users and create havoc in the excitement of the release. Because their plan was foiled they release the source to spite Valve.
2. For the shear kudos of hacking Valve, social engineering them and stealing their code.
3. An inside job by Publishers who don't like the concept of steam and the fact it will in effect cut them out of the loop. Sounds far fetched but just read the book, The Blue Nowhere. I certainly won't be giving my credit card details to steam in the near future.
At the end of the day, it sucks. Okay we moan about Valve, how much money they make, how they treat us like shit. But stealing 5 years worth of work from a company that has brought nothing but joy to the millions of fans out there is going one step to far. Moan at them, call them names but hack them - no this has gone too far...
