Steam Owns?

Act_Chill

I would have to say alot of problems are blamed on steam that arent steams fault. OMG I am laggign f steam. OMG steam messed up when trying to install it with my ghetto hack version of hl and the hl mod(lol hacked mod). I had no problem installing it and in dod my bullets dont get lost(It used to take a whole clip now only a 1/5 of a clip to kill someone). It took awhile to get used to the new layout, but even doing commands in console is nicer(as you type a list of possible command options pop up) You also have auto-retry-connection <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Steam does have problems, but the other system had just as many. My computer would need to be restarted sometimes when switching maps or just trying to get into a game for teh first time b/c of errors. Its like saying windows 98 is the **** and XP sucks it. 98 is sweet when downloading old games or other stuff, but XP is so much sweeter(professional of course home blows).

Supernorn

Right. So what you are basically trying to say is that you had no problems, so therefore everyone who does must be lieing.

And this whole thread would be so much more related if it was at the steam forums, or at least in a steam related thread somewhere on these boards.

Lucky

You're discussing 1.6 changes. Steam is the content delivery platform, not the actual game engine and you said exacly zero things about it so far except for the "Steam is good" statement. When you're going to post a flame bait, at least get some basic background on the topic you're going to bait people over, otherwise you won't even get that many flames <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And seriosuly, go bait people on steampowered, would ya?

Act_Chill

People had problems with the old system too. I am just saying that Steam isnt as bad as people say and that not all the problems happen b/c of steam. Like lag or installation. I have the hacked everything on my computer even the hacked version of XP(hope Mike Dell isnt reading this) and I had no problems. Some people just cant trouble shoot problems themselves, like the multitude of problems one gets when creating a computer from scratch multiple times. Oh this device doesnt work f it oh wait it cant share the same IRA I'll change that in the bios and it works now score <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Act_Chill

I like your icon though LUCKY. That game owned!!!

th0r0n

You're talking about HL 1.1.2.0 or whatever it's called, not Steam.

ColHapablap

How bout let's get the right forum before we post ok?

Hailstrike

Steam can certainly be a hassle to start a game and everything. (I also heard a rumor that if you have to reformat your system for some reason and tried to sign in again, it won't let you cause Steam thinks someone else has stolen your CD-key and is trying to get on Steam with it)


But for me it's given me lower pings in games, which is good.

Outlaw

Steam Owns. Especially on my favorite server, where it got owned big time as far as CPU usage; it went from a 22 person server with nice ping in WON to a 16 person server with Steam with ok ping.

Plus anything that brings a pay-per-play game into the mainstream can't be a good thing.

CommunistWithAGun

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LOL

Grillkohle

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/me hits his head on the table repeatedly

Talesin

Okay. Steam's great, it brings the user auth database under VALVe's personal control. It's fixed a lot of things for some people, and others can't deal with it, or have their computer set up... not in the most exacting manner.

It's not making Half-Life pay-for-play, nor is it making any of the other games *neccessarily* pay-for-play. Half-Life will remain free to play if you buy a copy. Similarly, HL2 will not be pay-for-play if you buy a boxed copy.
It's only if you *want* to use their subscription service, getting full access to all the games they offer when they come out, that you have a pay-per-month cost on.

Information is power. Some people need batteries now and again.

Since this will only cause to sprout more pro/anti-Steam flaming after this point,
<span style='color:red'>*LOCKED.*</span>