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Ross Becker
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Ikarius
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Re: I'll Try It
May 24, 2005, 22:00
Re: I'll Try It May 24, 2005, 22:00
May 24, 2005, 22:00
 
Dagok-

If a game crashes while playing in online mode, Steam won't let you back into the game for about a quarter of an hour while it waits for your account to ping out.

LOL bullshit. This one is funny.

Bullshit my ass. It takes 10 minutes before steam will let you back into the game. I don't care what you say, this HAPPENS TO ME. Every time Half-life has crashed. Not too many times, granted, but I cant name another game that I cant get back into immediately if it crashes. I dont like being treated like a pirate every time THEIR software fails.

Half-Life 2 and other Steam games are the only ones banned from installation by the IT department at my work (and many others, from what friends tell me) because of the potential they pose for an invasive attack.

Good. Considering its a place of WORK, you shouldn't have games installed to begin with. And this is common practice for most companies, they do not allow personal programs to be installed. Has nothing to do with Steam or Valve.

You know, I've worked plenty of places where we were professional enough, and they trusted us enough to load a few games on our computers. Usually only for after-hours play. As for the security risk which steam poses, I agree there too. I don't like any software on my computer which goes out automatically and tries to download things. Especially when I have as little control over it as I have over steam. Add to this that Valve has far from proven themselves in the area of security, and I have specific reason to mistrust steam. Even companies who have been doing security stuff for YEARS have their stuff cracked.

The one true problem is the Offline mode, it doesnt work perfectly for everyone and has it's flaws. Big fucking deal, I could care less as I have already said.

My my my. So the one problem you ADMIT is real, you classify as "Big fucking deal", and you could care less. Except for the people who don't have always-on internet connections, it's a huge deal.

Your claim that buying half-life 2 on release day via steam was cheaper than in the stores? Bullshit. Due to "it's a new release" discounts, most retail stores were cheaper than purchase via steam.

You pooh pooh all of us who have brought up real issues with Steam, and accuse those of us complaining of inventing problems and ignorance. All of the problems I mentioned were experienced directly by either myself or my friends. None of the issues I've brought up have anything to be adjusted in the steam configuration.

All the issues you claim to be imaginary.

I dont know what your motivation is, but you are either a world-class asshole, or very talented at seeing only what you want to.

--Ikarius

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Re: I'll Try It
May 23, 2005, 20:58
Re: I'll Try It May 23, 2005, 20:58
May 23, 2005, 20:58
 
Umm. Lets see here. The copy protection on HL2 was so broken that the retail CDs did not work on many systems with DVD burners as their only drives (a common system configuration for modern Dells). That happened to a friend of mine who bought HL2- he was completely unable to install and use the retail game he purchased.

The pre-downloads for HL2 were terminated at midnight on release day. That happened to me- they terminated my pre-load, and forced me to delete what was 85% downloaded and restart the download from the beginning.

Their registration servers were so broken on release day that people who had VALID LEGAL copies of HL2 could not register them for hours and hours. This happened to me and thousands of others.

Today, if any steam game locks up and crashes to desktop, I have to wait *10 WHOLE MINUTES* to get back into the game because Valve thinks that I might be a pirate.


Yeah, as a consumer I think Valves fucked up system has REALLY enhanced my experience. Is the online version even SLIGHTLY less expensive than the retail version? Not a bit. Translation for the economics impaired- Valve gets ALL the profit on selling to us direct, and doesnt even bother to cut us some slack on the price, despite there being no middleman, no packaging, no paper manual, and no CDs to replicate.

Oh, and lest we forget, steam insures that as an end user, I can't trade in my used game when it's old for a bit of credit towards a newer game at my local game shop.


I'd be VERY happy to see steam dead and gone.

--Ikarius

This comment was edited on May 23, 21:13.
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Nice website.....
Sep 14, 2004, 19:42
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Nice website..... Sep 14, 2004, 19:42
Sep 14, 2004, 19:42
 
I went to the mod site, and there's a huge pop-over ad (floating graphic) covering the whole top of the site page. There's no button to close the ad, and it doesn't appear to time out. To hell with downloading this mod, if they're going to put this crap on their site.

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