Is it supposed to be sluggish, unresponsive and prone to crashing?
So far is used up an extra 1.17GB on my harddrive with its "SteamApps" and when i ask it to do anything like, oh, play counterstrike, it locks up.

What is this actually supposed to be used for?
I'm always nervous of applications that just sit for AGES and don't tell you what they're doing. I'd look at the documentation on their website, but, of course, its down.

Anyone else in this predicament, or just me?

it is pretty awful..

Crashes for me when i try to add deathmatch classic, and if i click on the calculate cache space or whetevr it is.

Locks up when launching a game for the first time (presumably because its allocating space on the hard drive, it would be nice for it to tell you thats what its doing with maybe a status bar).


Skinning seems to comprimise of changing the color.


It doesn't seem to have made much progress from the beta apart from the import stuff which locked up when attempting to do NS.

steam is just spyware/copy protection rolled into one, gabe is just a FAT greedy man.

oh yeah, and it saves a 70mb file when it exist but doesnt say why. while its saving this (takes about a minute) you can't start steam again.

This makes restarting really slow and stupid.

I agree he is fat, I dont see where the greed comes into it though.. and the spyware thing I dont understand.

maybe you mean this

http://www.gametab.com/jump.php?27059

Was going to install this, but comments like these have kept me away so far as well..

Guess I'll wait until I absolutely need this thing in order to play their fancy game.

This comment was edited on Sep 12, 11:45.

I’m currently sitting at a screen that says

Converting Base Goldsrc Shared Binaries files into steam cache...complete
Converting Half-Life files into steam cache...

It’s been like this for 15 min… no activity on my computer. Even the beta wasn’t this bad.

Same thing here, going on 20 mins. I figure I'll let it do that while I'm at work, and if I come back and it's still fucked, then I'll be pissed.

I love it how companies love to fuck with a good thing, just makes life interesting.

that happened to me.. i closed it in taskmanager and start again.

the most common thought during use of this interface was "is it working"?

it seems to sit doing NOTHING for long periods of time - whenever you have an application doing something time consuming you WANT the user to know something is happening - status bars - counters whatever.

i REALLY dislike the interface - and i am starting to think i might begin hating it soon.

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/127009.shtml

Does Steam ever work? I can never connect when I install it, nor to their website. Im starting to think this is an Aprils Fools joke that never ended and its just here to piss me off?

Well I've waited for about an hour now and it's still installing the basic Steam package. I haven't been asked to add a new account or subscribe to the games.

How can Steam see this as being an efficient solution? I mean today everyone is wanting to download this and install it so I know why it's crawling and once it will be out a while it should be faster to download the basic client GUI.

But then when they release a patch then we all have to go through this process again as thousands of people try to get the updated patch. I think it would be faster if they did it the old way with multiple sites just offering the patch as a seperate file.

Ah well I'll give it a try but I do agree with MajorGeeks that I had problems too connecting so I hope that this "offical" version works for me.

The sad thing is I'm not surprised Steam is failing so bad...

Ever since the first attempt to do a Steam release this Jan I started to feel nervous.
Game developers are not enterprise software developers, I guess its that simple.

Steam, it being flakey with this much load I can comprehend, but the fact that steampowered.com is down is unforgivable, we have mastered for a long time how to serve up huge amounts of static content, yet steampowered is down. If Valve cannot complete this simple task, can we really expect the vastly more complex Steam to work?

NO

What makes me even more concerned is the possiblity that Valve will delay the release of Half-Life 2 to they can relase over Steam. Lets face it people, its Sept 12, Steam failed its first test in Jan, it has just failed its second test.. There is no way that Half-Life 2 is going to be distributed via Steam come Sept 30th.

Valve realize you're just gonna have to do a traditional release to good ol physical stores. Realize you're just a game developer and hire some consultants with experince with enterprise computing who will help you fix Steam.

You are a game developer.

I mena yeah, i`m sure the reason its not spritely is cos milions of people are trying to do what we are - probably with the same amount of success. I've actually managed to get it installed and registed, although none of the news, information, frieds spy or <b>games</B> appear to work.

Even if there had been a README or something that would say what it actually has to do to work, as opposed to obscure messages and LONG delays where nothing seems to be happening. I honestly wouldn`t have bothered with it, except , obviously, I want to play Half Life2, and wanted to get this out of the way (Steam is mandatory for HL2, right?)

It does seem like a pretty badly put-together application - always waiting for confirmation from some master server I think. That would at least explain all the lockups. I may give it a few days and try it then.

You`d have thought these simple problems would have been addressed in the BETA. I suppose we should be thankful that we can`t play Half Life 2 out of the box right now becuase Steam won't authenticate properly - this gives themsome time to sort out this mess.

I've been trying to let the old client autoupdate for days. I'm 100 per cent sure I want a nice hard copy of the game on my shelf, saving 10 bucks, or even 20, not worth the risk.

Steam = Skynet

It will become self-aware and launch an attack againsts its enemys at 6:18pm today.

Who are its enemys? Gamers. Each house that has downloaded Steam has been targeted by a Nuclear Missle.

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I bet there's another DOS attack on Valve... -_-

mena yeah, i`m sure the reason its not spritely is cos milions of people are trying to do what we are - probably with the same amount of success

What do you think will happen when 500.000 users are trying to download the full game when it gets released sometime in the future?

if Steam is Skynet then we don't have to worry about judgment day... it'll never happen. No terminators will be sent back through time as by the time the things are created the war will be over anyway, and just in case one does manage to make it - the terminator OS will be out of date as it couldn't connect to get the latest version, so will probably end up as a cleaner droid or something for the kids to play with.

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