Originally posted by Mharr:

It's uncomfortable though, because it means one day whatever server it talks to won't be there ever again. I guess if it's all based on a central Steam process though, at that stage we'll only have to hack it one time.

I think anything using the SteamPlay API (or whatever the multiplayer backend that Steam provides for devs is called) is going to have that same problem. Just like when GameSpy went under.

I'm not super concerned about Steam going under that way any anytime in the near future. If it does, we probably have much larger issues. It would be nice to have a P2P connection mode, though.