Ships Ahoy - Day of Defeat: Source [Sep 26, 2005, 6:19 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Day of Defeat: Source is now via the
Steam delivery service. Word on
Steam News
is:
Day of Defeat: Source is available now via Steam for just $19.95. If you have Steam installed, you can get Day of Defeat now! If you don't have Steam installed yet, click here for the Steam installer.
t still took 18 hours or more to download all of that content (if you have a standard 1.5MBps broadband connection). The fact that it may have happened before the official release is irrelevant. Technically, Valve could have made the game available as soon as you downloaded the files and not made you wait to a certain date to activate and decrypt them.
Saying that Steam is immediate is therefore a specious argument. It would be like me saying that retail is immediate because I have my butler stand outside the video game store when it opens, and he picks the game up and installs it on my PC so it is immediately ready to play when I get home.
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This right here shows your complete idiocy or desire to make up stuff out of thin air to argue against Valve.
If they hadn't done it that way you know full well you would be bitching about how it took 18 hours to download on the release day. Instead by allowing people to prep it ahead of time they where able to play it much earlier the night the release date hit (and if you remember they tried to unlock it over the weekend when the retail versions got put on the shelves early, but Vivendi said "no"... and I bet your going to come up with some tin foil method to turn even this around into a negative slash against valve).
Riley, you are a biased Valve hater. I'm just someone who's used their products succesfuly. It's as simple as that. You are completely blind. Someone buys a product and says, "Wow I really like everything I've bought from this company over the past 6-7 years, everything works great and does what I expect." Your going to stand there and tell them they're wrong? You don't even go for the "Well yeah but look at all these other cases where it didn't work right argument" like I was expecting. Instead you accuse me of being some poster child spokes person for Valve. Of course I'm happy with them... I've never had any reason not to be.
You either A) don't actualy hate valve, your just here stirring up the pot because you find it amusing, and I actualy think this is the more likely case because no one can be so B) Completely blinded by your own hatred made up in your head concerning Valve.
Anyways arguing with you isn't a discussion. It's just a case of you finding whatever you can pick and pull out of someone's post to use to make up stuff to make Valve look bad. I don't understand your desire to do this... but have fun. I'm out.
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