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  • DukatDukat Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7748Members
    edited September 2003
    Whoops...ok I'll keep an eye out and switch out files.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There's no ETA on the Steam client release other than "today."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    That's from planethalflife. Seems they don't know when the Steam Client is supposed to be released.
  • nightdragonnightdragon Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11848Members, Constellation
    Gargh, and to add to injury no-one can get on the bloomin steampowered site either!

    ND
  • IcecreamIcecream Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16006Members
    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>STEAM</span></span></span><span style='font-family:Times'><span style='font-size:27pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>suX</span></span></span>

    you have to connect with steam to play on LAN!!!!!!!
  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    Bah..it's still not out? GG
  • LazerLazer Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14406Members, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    edited September 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Icecream+Sep 11 2003, 03:01 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Icecream @ Sep 11 2003, 03:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>STEAM</span></span></span><span style='font-family:Times'><span style='font-size:27pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>suX</span></span></span>

    you have to connect with steam to play on LAN!!!!!!! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Shortly after release they will make one that works on lan. And lan isn't even all the important RIGHT AWAY. Now please anyone who doesn't know what they are talking about go to #steam and read what it says.
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    <b>@Icecream and Lazer:</b> No flamage please. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    GMT = PST + 8
  • IcecreamIcecream Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16006Members
    I hope the Community <span style='font-family:Impact'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>revenge</span></span></span> it for STEAM.
  • PalmaneenPalmaneen Join Date: 2003-01-02 Member: 11727Members
    If you guys cry so much about LAN playing then what are you doing in this forum? It's on the internet right? But if we don't see it that way right now and say you somehow mysteriously can see this page without an internet connection, then why are you talking so much about something you have to download? Half-Life won't just stop working when steam is released.
  • IcecreamIcecream Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16006Members
    there a people in the net who have 56k, and and remember the BIG LAN Partys!!!

    Download over 100MB with 56k???
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    @Icecream: I understand your concerns, yet I have to tell
    you that you shouldn't become so agitated about a rumor.

    It's possible to disable the auto-update feature of steam
    and handle the updating in the 'classic way' (i.e. getting
    patches of game mag cds, get the file from a friend with
    broadband, etc.).

    Also the final Steam version will work like a download-manager
    so your download would continue at the spot you'd left off after
    a disconnection interval.

    Future versions of Steam will enable you to play botmatches and
    singleplayer offline (this may also include lan-gaming).

    So wait for the thing to come out before getting angry at it.
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    I checked out the server status page of the steampowered webpage.
    Looks like they are updating the content servers first before providing
    us with the client download.

    My guess is, that the client will be released once every content server
    is up and running. I still remember the collapse of the content delivery
    servers on the day they wanted to release the public beta of CS 1.6 via
    Steam. Seems they have learned from this.
  • Sgt_DoompySgt_Doompy Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19264Members
    edited September 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> something for everyone using steam to think about


    and for the lazy ones who do not care to read....


    while looking into the gcache of the steam program, they found MANY references to kazza, mp3's .exe's on your hard drive.... all in the goodness of anti cheat protection... and the funny thing is, when you uninstall steam... it sends out all this wonderful information back to wherever steam wants...


    and one of the lead guys for steam, used to work for microsoft... and it is rumored that Valve and microsoft are working together on anti piracy software.... all of this is in the link i got...


    and that link is courtesy of my friends in #TEC...

    just thought you all might find that interesting... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->steam looks at your whole harddrive, and gathers information bout every mp3, or installed program.... for the purpose of "cheat detection" but it also gabs various HTML links and scans hotmail stuff.... it is ****... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <a href='http://www.claninitiated.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=84' target='_blank'>http://www.claninitiated.com/forum/index.p...hp?showtopic=84</a>

    Indeed something to think about.. I can only hope its not true <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Lightning_BlueLightning_Blue Sunny Domination Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10647Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    <!--QuoteBegin--Trojan+Sep 10 2003, 04:31 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trojan @ Sep 10 2003, 04:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Shocking.. purely shocking. Does this mean that people outside the US have to connect to this aswell? I mean, here in Aus the pingtimes to the US are horrible, if this affects that in anyway I forsee a huuuuge backlash against valve. This is another perfect example of how Valve is trying to simple screw us all over :| <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I do believe Valve has worldwide content servers set up.
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    <b>@Sgt. Doompy:</b> lol, that's utter BS! That's the kind of
    paranoid rumors I've been laughing at for the past week now.

    <b>@Lightning Blue:</b> that's correct

    Some guy over at the DoD forums pointed out that some valve-guy on #steam
    pointed out that all you guys that still have got the beta installed, <b>will have
    to uninstall it and download the final client</b>, cause it won't update itself to
    the new version automatically as was originally implied on steampowered.com
  • LazerLazer Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14406Members, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin--LagAdder+Sep 11 2003, 04:40 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (LagAdder @ Sep 11 2003, 04:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Some guy over at the DoD forums pointed out that some valve-guy on #steam
    pointed out that all you guys that still have got the beta installed, <b>will have
    to uninstall it and download the final client</b>, cause it won't update itself to
    the new version automatically as was originally implied on steampowered.com <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I was there when the guy said it, and he said that the beta files might play a part in the installation so DON'T uninstall until further notice.
  • PseudoKnightPseudoKnight Join Date: 2002-06-18 Member: 791Members
    The beta client will update itself but you still need the new file to register your steamID.
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    Oops. Soz, didn't know that. 1k thx for pointing that out.

    *was about to uninstall it* <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    I heard people say that the mp3 stuff is there for the in-game player.
  • Jabba_The_HuntJabba_The_Hunt Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11850Members
    I havn't gone through every page of this thread but I want to help relieve people of some of their fears of steam that I know many people have. -


    You will not have to pay for steam, there is the option to pay for content on steam on a monthly basis (you get all valve content for $9.99 a month, whether thats a good deal or not remains to be seen), but you if buy a game in the shops you can play it on steam at no charge.

    Steam is not terribly buggy, the beta had some problems but the final release should be fairly stable on the majority of machines, although it may be required to run in windows 98/me compatiblity mode.

    You can use custom models - again this was not provided in the beat but will be added for the final release.

    You can still use third party software programs to connect to games - this was not provided in the beta, but should be added for the final release.

    You can still play all other half life mods, this will not stop mods such as NS.

    The beta code used a lot of bandwidth and system resources, most of these issues should be fixed in the final release.

    Valve is not trying to screw you over, this company needs to keep its player base to survive, steam is a good program being provided for free.

    The steampowered website is slow because it is under DoS attack (Denial of Service, basically the page is refreshed very quickly by lots of users all over the world so no one else can get a connection).

    56k Users - The only problem here really is the initial download, there isn't a huge ping problem (maybe 2-10ms), but you would have to download the cs and hl update anyway, so this isn't any different really, and in the end it will cut down the ammount you need to download (as they only release small patches).

    The True Problems with steam -

    You need a net connection to use steam at a lan, while this is true, I cant see valve stopping you to play a lan because of this, I would think/hope there is a seperate way to setup a lan game, you just wont have the benefits of steam.


    Unconfirmed

    The spyware issue I have not yet been able to confirm or not, any help would be welcome.


    Anyone who doesn't like/hates steam hasn't fully understood this issues here, and I urge you to give it a chance to get setteled in, this does not mean trying it out and getting one error or a 15min download dialog and saying, "this sucks, im goint to play ut2k3" give it a chance for the issues to be sorted and you will find it is a very good program.
  • eL_DonkeYeL_DonkeY Join Date: 2003-08-25 Member: 20185Members
    Since Steam requires an internet connection, my birthday party at a LAN will have to be canceled if Steam doesnt get its offline mode on quickly, which totally sucks.
  • TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
    @BOZO

    Sry if I was wrong but I live in germany for me at the time I posted it was still tomorrow <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Now it's the day after I posted it so its today ^^

    P.S. it's still not out <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • CatpokerCatpoker Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 816Members
    i have severe dout that this steam client will be released today

    today being the next 7 hours. (its 4:30 right now PST)
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    Something to look at while waiting for the steam building up pressure. <a href='http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?news=1063319154-65935800' target='_blank'>Link</a> <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • SillyGooseSillyGoose Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14572Members, Constellation
    and its already gone LagAdder...
  • LagAdderLagAdder Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7208Members
    edited September 2003
    Watch Half-Life2 DX9 DemoVid (<a href='http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=3619' target='_blank'>Fileshack Link</a>) while you wait for Steam.
    You'll have to register to download stuff there (but it's free).
  • nightdragonnightdragon Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11848Members, Constellation
    Its 8 am here and look, no Steam, this really sucks @$$

    ND
  • SiliconSilicon Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13683Members
    edited September 2003
    The only thing I liked steamed is my vegetables! j/k I like vegetables raw
    but seriously, people don't like be forced to do things but valve is trying to push their community ahead a giant leap, this is a controversy that has a lot of people, well... steamed...
  • TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
    Woot on release 2 download locations.
  • MajinMajin Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16829Members, Constellation
    whats going to be so good about steam anywise?
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    <span style='color:red'>*LOCKED.* Please use the Steam topics already existing in Off-Topic.</span>
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