One big wahala don happen for gaming world as more than 12TB of content from Steam games wey date back to 2003 reach 2013 don leak for internet. The leak wey dem dey call “terarelease” na im be di most complete dump of Valve im old Steam2 server architecture wey dem don dey use before.
According to reports, di collection contain tousands of depot files wey represent every version of every game wey dem don upload to those old Steam2 servers. Dis one include public release builds and plenty pre-release, prototype, and playtest versions of popular titles from Valve and third-party publishers.
Before now, public early versions of some games wey dem release before SteamPipe transition dem don consider as lost by archivists. Dem no dey accessible from Valve again, dem only dey live as local downloads for old machines. But this leak show say dem no lost as people think.
Di leak cut off abruptly for 2013 because na dat year Valve change from Steam2 to SteamPipe system. Di new system move from proprietary file format to standard HTTP file trees, wey remove bottlenecks and make updates dey flow better.
One longtime Valve watcher wey dem know as Gabe Follower talk say im don verify say everything inside di Steam2 Teraleak dem get am via publicly accessible API endpoint. Im talk say “na Valve fault.” Another streamer, Scolcer, also talk say di site wey dem use na im dey 100% accessible to public, no password, nothing, hidden in plain sight but no protection.
But e no clear whether dem just access di content or na old archive wey dem keep since before 2013. Moderators from Valve Cut Content (VCC) Discord, The One Epicplayer and CrazyBubba, suspect say na many people wey know about am collect different files over time and now dem don join am together. CrazyBubba talk say “There were a lot of leaks a few years back and many folks hoarded files for years.”
Inside di leak, one readme file carry message wey wish “warm n good wishes to all hoarders who had stuff from this collection.” Valve no don comment on di leak, but e likely say dem go try to purge am from internet, though with BitTorrent, e no easy.
