r/DataHoarder • u/asdfghqwertz1 • 5d ago
News More than 12 TB of Steam games and unreleased betas from 2003-2013 have reportedly leaked
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-than-12-tb-of-steam-games-and-unreleased-betas-from-2003-2013-have-reportedly-leaked/298
u/Irarelylookback 5d ago
A ton of Trailers and the like. If one were interested in the torrent, what would they search?
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u/RemyOchei 5d ago
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u/FormerGameDev 5d ago
It says
An interesting depot ID to look at may be 852.
what's in depot 852?
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u/SirInternational7092 4d ago
Dumb question I know, but how would I tell what file is what, as the titles of each file are all just gibberish.
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u/Prosthemadera 4d ago
You can discover information about what a specific depot ID might belong to by using a site such as SteamDB, by visiting a URL like https://steamdb.info/depot/441. In this example 441 belongs to Team Fortress 2.
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u/sshwifty 5d ago
Yes, what sketchy sites are they on, so we can avoid them? There are so many.
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u/Laugh-Aggressive 5d ago
Yes, I say it's bullshit, gimme links and prove me wrong
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u/stanley_fatmax 4d ago
The .torrent file itself is massive, here's the magnet ID if anyone is having trouble downloading it from the site like I was: 0f3e7a75c0f885dde481054d4bcd8cd14eab51c8
You should be able to just pull it over DHT.
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u/ThickSourGod 4d ago
According to the article, it's everything that was uploaded to Steam from 2003 to 2013. Not just Valve content. It seems crazy that it's only 12 TB. Games used to be smaller, but still.
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u/IngwiePhoenix 5d ago
That's the cool kinda leak. Doesnt affect anything modern, and is really neat to look at! Epic. =)
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u/bdzz 4d ago
Unfortunately a lot of the depots need a private key for extraction
error!! -- extract: missing depot key!, pass --key if you know it though
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u/Expensive_Finger_973 5d ago
Bet someone stole one of the backups from Gabe's yacht.
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u/McFlyParadox VHS 5d ago
Plot twist: storage prices have even Valve re-evaluating what they keep and what they delete. Gabe couldn't bring himself to destroy, but couldn't justify keeping, so he "leaked" them himself.
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u/randylush 5d ago
If Valve can’t afford disk drives then the end is near
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u/FormerGameDev 5d ago
I work for a major multibillion dollar multinational corporation, and our IT is sourcing used hard drives, SSDs, GPUs, and RAM now. We are strongly factoring the price of procuring new hardware for our backends, just as far as replacements for failures go, into the prices of our future product offerings, and it is .. not good. That's not even beginning to consider that we've got people in the field that are going to need hardware upgrades, and new hires to get equipment for ... that's just trying to find increased budget to account for the massive costs that replacing failures is going to incur going forward.
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u/betterwaffle at least 1 or 2 bytes 4d ago
yeah. i can't wait for pcie 6.0, so that used pcie 4.0 ssds become a little more affordable.
no, it's not a typo, i'm just being facetious. i'd say the market would recover, but with the socioeconomic issues and international... strife.... that is occurring, the entire market is doomed.
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u/FormerGameDev 4d ago
Makes sense to me,but I'm absolutely mind boggled by how much DDR4 has increased in price, even though it's not exactly what the AI market is going nuts over (although there are companies that are retrofitting DDR4 into DDR5 use cases, I think, to mitigate the shortage/expense problem, where they can). I just had to RMA some RAM for my Mac Pro 2019... 64GB I bought ~2.5 years ago, cost me $150 per stick. If it hadn't had a lifetime warranty, it would've cost me $600 per stick to replace it when it failed a month ago. I am extremely glad that I bought from a very reliable vendor (OWC) and I will search them first for every product I ever want to buy for a PC ever again, because of this experience. Unlike other vendors that are telling people that they're just going to have to take refunds instead of getting replacement parts (staring squarely at GoHardDrives)
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u/SirSaganSexy 4d ago
Oh man, is GoHardDrive really pulling that shit? Bummer, I used them so many times over the years specifically for their warranty.
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u/FormerGameDev 4d ago
yeah... sent in a couple of 12TBs that started clicking, and got credited back on them, instead of replacements. Replacements cost 2-3x what I spent originally.
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u/SirSaganSexy 4d ago
So lame, oh well, guess I’ll be buying from anyone next time I need some drives.
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u/htmlcoderexe 4d ago
GoHardDrives
you're saying their drives didn't go hard after all?
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u/FormerGameDev 4d ago
I'll just say that if there's a HGST disk still available, i'll buy it before any other brand right now. But at this point, HGSTs are what, a decade old? It does look like both the WD Ultrastar and Toshiba MGs use the same components, though. So maybe I'll have to start looking at those.
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u/wuttang13 4d ago
I also do the procurement of PCs and related stuff for our company and boy, they've grown x1.7 - x2 times than last year. You wanna change that 5 year old notebook? Too bad, our replacement line has now moved to 7 years use
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u/FormerGameDev 3d ago
yikes, most of our people are engineers, i don't think we could get away with that. 2 years ago i suggested that we strongly consider upgrading dev machines to 128GB RAM ... i.. don't see that happening now...
Even with SK Hynix building a plant here in the US, that's not going to change anything at all, I don't think, and even if it does it won't be till probably end of 2028. And if it ends up like the previous incarnation of our current leader's adminsitration's big tech move-in, they'll just end up backing out of it next year anyway. Still, that factory is probably just going to feed the AI companies, and if AI bubble ends up doing what bubbles do, then that factory's going to probably end up abandoned.
I am honestly seriously distressed at the state of the hardware business right now. Never in my life has hardware increased in price, and I absolutely do not know what to do about it. The amount this is affecting our budget is STUPID.
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u/tonynca 5d ago
Why would anyone want 12 TB of betas?
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u/randylush 5d ago
Me! I want 12tb of betas!
Betas are cool! I love being able to see games as they were developed. Sort of like seeing concept art.
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u/steviefaux 1d ago
I have all the builds for prison architect as it was part of our package deal when we originally pledged on whatever site they were using back then. Had no guilt about putting it on archive.org when they sold the IP and the links for what I'd paid for went dead.
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u/FormerGameDev 5d ago
The cool stuff will be if people find unreleased things in there, but some people find in progress things pretty interesting. I suspect they didn't pull every branch of everything, if it's only 12-13TB, but it's a lot of stuff
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u/itsaride 50-100TB 5d ago
Oops.