Valve has gone bananas

Post by **KingManULTRA** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:53 pm

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/258780.asp

40 fucking dollars for CSS Source (came with HL2) and DOD Source? Fuck what?

Post by **Psyche911** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:42 pm

Or just buy HL2 Silver over Steam and get it all for $50 like I did a fucking year ago (I preloaded DoD:S, obviously haven't played it yet).

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:02 pm

oh stop complaining, new games are £30-35 in the UK, which is nearer $50

Post by **KingManULTRA** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:34 pm

seremtan wrote:oh stop complaining, new games are £30-35 in the UK, which is nearer $50

Uhm, the price of games in general isn't the issue here. It's that those two fucking games (CSS and DODS) are not worth a near full priced package.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:51 pm

It's price fixing to increase the appeal of Steam.

maybe.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:56 pm

the problem with steam is there are morons who actual like it...

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:29 pm

steam in concept is actually a great idea, The same people that are fucking sitting there whining like little bitches about steam where the people Bitching about the big/late patches that steam released for HL1, thats what Steam was set out to combat.. and i must say they did a Good job, But they would have tested it a little longer to work out the abundant bug's.

all in all, its nice to have a 24hour turnaround for the latest cheat. Wouldent you think?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:56 pm

KingManULTRA wrote:http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/258780.asp

40 fucking dollars for CSS Source (came with HL2) and DOD Source? Fuck what?

Some people dont want HL2.. thus get CS and DOD.. so cry

Post by **Psyche911** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:58 pm

I honestly have no idea why people hate Steam. It takes the hassle out of patching your game. The only annoyance I've ever had with it is it took like 30 minutes to validate HL2 after it was unlocked after pre-loading.

Big fucking deal.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:37 am

Psyche911 wrote:I honestly have no idea why people hate Steam. It takes the hassle out of patching your game. The only annoyance I've ever had with it is it took like 30 minutes to validate HL2 after it was unlocked after pre-loading.

Big fucking deal.

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:51 am

The shit is bananas
b-a-n-a-n-a-s

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:14 am

there should just be a sticky called "whinges about steam/hl2/valve etc" for all this complaining to go into

frankly $40 for CSS and DoD doesn't sound terrible to me, especially since i'm not interested in either of them

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:39 am

Psyche911 wrote:I honestly have no idea why people hate Steam. It takes the hassle out of patching your game. The only annoyance I've ever had with it is it took like 30 minutes to validate HL2 after it was unlocked after pre-loading.

Big fucking deal.

like downloading a file and executing it was such a pain in the ass to begin with. :icon27:

Post by **Foo** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:41 am

Steam would be great if it wasn't locked to a single game company.

Man, I'm a broken record. Sorry.

Post by **neh** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:47 am

whos publishing it?

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:43 am

Psyche911 wrote:I honestly have no idea why people hate Steam. It takes the hassle out of patching your game. The only annoyance I've ever had with it is it took like 30 minutes to validate HL2 after it was unlocked after pre-loading.

Big fucking deal.

well, first of all, you're required to be online to use any steam product. not recommended, required.
secondly, it installs itself into your systray even though you're not using any steam product. like i really need another start menu which is also sending packets back n forth whilst just sitting there.

having to wait a minimum of 2 minutes before the game starts cause it has to "validate" again also makes no sense.
the times the steam server is down, you CANNOT play any of your games.

great stuff, indeed

Post by **o'dium** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:47 am

All this to solve pirates and what did it do...

It delayed pirites using it for a week or so...

Big fucking deal. Now give me my used memory back that STEAM is taking up...

I have to say itsn ice how random it is. Just the other day I was texturing/modeling a texture and my computer suddenly halts. Then, when it slowly starts to come back, I notice i left steam open from a previous go and it was updating itself without even letting me know, eating up my system as it goes... My PC crashed a few moments later.

Score.

I dont mind HL2, great game. But what a POS steam is.

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:13 pm

MKJ wrote:
Psyche911 wrote:I honestly have no idea why people hate Steam. It takes the hassle out of patching your game. The only annoyance I've ever had with it is it took like 30 minutes to validate HL2 after it was unlocked after pre-loading.

Big fucking deal.
well, first of all, you're required to be online to use any steam product. not recommended, required.
secondly, it installs itself into your systray even though you're not using any steam product. like i really need another start menu which is also sending packets back n forth whilst just sitting there.

having to wait a minimum of 2 minutes before the game starts cause it has to "validate" again also makes no sense.
the times the steam server is down, you CANNOT play any of your games.

great stuff, indeed

all completely untrue. steam has an offline mode. i have dialup and have never had any of the issues you refer to. just go into your steam setup/prefs/properties/whatever and change to offline mode. it DOES however stick the client in your systray, but big deal - it's just another reason not to clutter your systray up with other crap

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:53 pm

right click on the systray icon > Exit

problem solved, it's not fucking rocket science

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:57 pm

I love steam.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:01 pm

says alot about u...rofl...

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:17 pm

As does 'rofl' with you. Especially seeing as you're middleaged.

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:30 pm

Grudge wrote:right click on the systray icon > Exit

problem solved, it's not fucking rocket science

w0rd

aite steam is a pain in the ass sometimes but come off it, if thats your biggest problem in life i think you have some issues innit :]

Post by **Eraser** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:51 pm

The biggest problem I have with Steam is that if you feel like a quick game of Half-Life 2 before going to bed then you come out cheated because it'll take 15 minutes to get the game patches and ready to go.

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:31 pm

THAT'S WHY YOU SET IT TO OFFLINE MODE. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT

ffs how difficult is this concept to grasp?

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