<!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Aug 11 2004, 01:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Aug 11 2004, 01:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you think HL2 won't be on any retail shelves, you're sadly mistaken. If HL2 were to be steam only it would be a tremendous financial flop. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Hell every store i've been to still sells HL platinum pack! and people buy it! Alot of people dont even know about steam.
Strangely enough, it was rumored that Doom 3 would be on six CDs as well...
When I heard Half-Life 2 was preloading on Steam, I realized I would be faced with a difficult challenge, just as I faced during the preloading of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. <b>REMOVING THE STUPID PRELOADED DATA.</b> I don't want Valve choosing to download files to my computer without my permission. I want to scream at the screen every time Valve sends yet another ridiculous advertisement for Counter-Stupid, because they cache <b>everything to my PC</b>. It means I have to go into my file manager and delete said content just because Valve wanted to advertise yet again (after downloading the content to my PC) that hey, look at that, they have a game available! If there is one big problem with Steam, it's the mindset that I would want to buy new games, rather than play a game that now requires Steam for multiplayer. If they'd leave me alone, I'd be grateful.
<!--QuoteBegin-MedHead+Aug 17 2004, 08:13 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Aug 17 2004, 08:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> [stuff] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Just remember that things become a lot easier if you make steam preload before you buy something, and then go buy it, and all you do is enter the cd-key into steam(rather than installing the game in the usual manner).
got it pre loaded in like 25 mins <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Clashen+Aug 17 2004, 08:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Clashen @ Aug 17 2004, 08:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Just browsed trough the CS:S GCF, could only open the wav's and the txt-files :/ Boring that the radio uses the same sound. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> because it is counter strike : source. its not a new game its just cs on the updated engine. dont expect anything spectarualy new.
<!--QuoteBegin-kuperaye+Aug 17 2004, 03:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kuperaye @ Aug 17 2004, 03:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Clashen+Aug 17 2004, 08:16 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Clashen @ Aug 17 2004, 08:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Just browsed trough the CS:S GCF, could only open the wav's and the txt-files :/ Boring that the radio uses the same sound. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> because it is counter strike : source. its not a new game its just cs on the updated engine. dont expect anything spectarualy new. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yea but they remade all the models and alot of other stuff, having the old radio-sounds just doesn't fit. But anyway i'll just download a custom soundpack when it's fully released ;P
<!--QuoteBegin-MedHead+Aug 17 2004, 02:13 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Aug 17 2004, 02:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Strangely enough, it was rumored that Doom 3 would be on six CDs as well...
When I heard Half-Life 2 was preloading on Steam, I realized I would be faced with a difficult challenge, just as I faced during the preloading of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. <b>REMOVING THE STUPID PRELOADED DATA.</b> I don't want Valve choosing to download files to my computer without my permission. I want to scream at the screen every time Valve sends yet another ridiculous advertisement for Counter-Stupid, because they cache <b>everything to my PC</b>. It means I have to go into my file manager and delete said content just because Valve wanted to advertise yet again (after downloading the content to my PC) that hey, look at that, they have a game available! If there is one big problem with Steam, it's the mindset that I would want to buy new games, rather than play a game that now requires Steam for multiplayer. If they'd leave me alone, I'd be grateful. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Amen to that. It is my biggest pet peeve with Steam. Their interface for controlling how your computer downloads content is horrible.
I don't play counterstrike. I don't want to play counterstrike. I certainly don't want ads installed w/o my permission on my computer. Ad-ware?
Quaunaut, are you saying that if a company does something you don't like, then three months later does another thing you don't like, you don't connect the two? You say "eh, it's been three months, they can do another thing I dislike"? I never said it was <b>difficult</b> to remove preloading <b>or</b> the html/graphics (from the ads). I said <b>it shouldn't be loaded on my computer in the first place!</b> The point is, I don't want anyone caching anything to my computer without my knowledge and/or permission!
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Communist Without a Gun, if I were to purchase Half-Life 2, it would not be through Steam.
<!--QuoteBegin-MedHead+Aug 17 2004, 06:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Aug 17 2004, 06:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The point is, I don't want anyone caching anything to my computer without my knowledge and/or permission!
<!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Currently Steam doesn't pre-load content without your permission. Valve made the mistake with CZ and have since remedied it.
Not that it's particularly useful. You can see on the icon in the tray if it <i>is</i> downloading something, and unless you have reinstalled steam recently you are probably aware of what is being updated and can check the % in its properties.
Well, Its now the 18th, HL2 didn't preload, however, CS:S did. I've already played CS:S, and toyed with the engine, and (me being a fan of CS) I think its an awesome game. Everything about it looks really good, and there's fun stuff to do. Eg, on dust, the underpass dips down. There's a tire leaning up against a wall, and if you push it off, it rolls all the way down, and behaves EXACTLY as a tire should. So, sometimes it will wobble down and fall halfway. There's even a tire sound effect when you shoot it/ knife it. Very nifty.
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This is seriously **** me off.
Why in the living f*** would they wait till PEAK HOUR TIME to release CS:S? They should have released it this morning and let a ton of people get it before 9999999999999 people get on this afternoon and either get it then, or get on to see if they got it and the such.
<!--QuoteBegin-enf0rcer+Aug 18 2004, 10:25 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (enf0rcer @ Aug 18 2004, 10:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I almost never use this smiley but it best describes how I feel about the CS:S release right now.
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It sucks that it'll be around 2am here when it's unlocked and that I have to be up early tommorow to get my exam results, but that's the breaks. Roll with the punches.
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In that case there's no way I'm spending $30 to play a crappy mod on an engine that will be out in a few months anyways.
Hell every store i've been to still sells HL platinum pack! and people buy it!
Alot of people dont even know about steam.
When I heard Half-Life 2 was preloading on Steam, I realized I would be faced with a difficult challenge, just as I faced during the preloading of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. <b>REMOVING THE STUPID PRELOADED DATA.</b> I don't want Valve choosing to download files to my computer without my permission. I want to scream at the screen every time Valve sends yet another ridiculous advertisement for Counter-Stupid, because they cache <b>everything to my PC</b>. It means I have to go into my file manager and delete said content just because Valve wanted to advertise yet again (after downloading the content to my PC) that hey, look at that, they have a game available! If there is one big problem with Steam, it's the mindset that I would want to buy new games, rather than play a game that now requires Steam for multiplayer. If they'd leave me alone, I'd be grateful.
Just remember that things become a lot easier if you make steam preload before you buy something, and then go buy it, and all you do is enter the cd-key into steam(rather than installing the game in the usual manner).
Boring that the radio uses the same sound.
im ready to rock...
yall wanna meet up to play tmrw?
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because it is counter strike : source. its not a new game its just cs on the updated engine. dont expect anything spectarualy new.
Boring that the radio uses the same sound. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
because it is counter strike : source. its not a new game its just cs on the updated engine. dont expect anything spectarualy new. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yea but they remade all the models and alot of other stuff, having the old radio-sounds just doesn't fit.
But anyway i'll just download a custom soundpack when it's fully released ;P
When I heard Half-Life 2 was preloading on Steam, I realized I would be faced with a difficult challenge, just as I faced during the preloading of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. <b>REMOVING THE STUPID PRELOADED DATA.</b> I don't want Valve choosing to download files to my computer without my permission. I want to scream at the screen every time Valve sends yet another ridiculous advertisement for Counter-Stupid, because they cache <b>everything to my PC</b>. It means I have to go into my file manager and delete said content just because Valve wanted to advertise yet again (after downloading the content to my PC) that hey, look at that, they have a game available! If there is one big problem with Steam, it's the mindset that I would want to buy new games, rather than play a game that now requires Steam for multiplayer. If they'd leave me alone, I'd be grateful. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Amen to that. It is my biggest pet peeve with Steam. Their interface for controlling how your computer downloads content is horrible.
I don't play counterstrike. I don't want to play counterstrike. I certainly don't want ads installed w/o my permission on my computer. Ad-ware?
Eh, I get riled easy. But honestly guys, its been 3 months. Get over yourselves, are your lives really that devoid of interesting things?
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Communist Without a Gun, if I were to purchase Half-Life 2, it would not be through Steam.
What I think should have been done, is that first they upload a hl2 demo, and a week afterwards they ask wether you want it prechached on your hdd.
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Currently Steam doesn't pre-load content without your permission. Valve made the mistake with CZ and have since remedied it.
Also, I just realized that you're the Crono I played last night on ns_mineshaft.
Why in the living f*** would they wait till PEAK HOUR TIME to release CS:S? They should have released it this morning and let a ton of people get it before 9999999999999 people get on this afternoon and either get it then, or get on to see if they got it and the such.
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They said today, they didn't say when, but it'll probably be around 7.
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Did you really expect anything different? Steampowered.com stats show that they have the most bandwidth available around 6pm (their time), and that's what time the pre-load began and also what time the Cyber Cafes were give the Beta.
It sucks that it'll be around 2am here when it's unlocked and that I have to be up early tommorow to get my exam results, but that's the breaks. Roll with the punches.
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why preload 2 games next to each other, itll kill thier bandwith. so just wait its ok