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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: duherman on February 24, 2005, 07:58:23 PM

Title: STEAM
Post by: duherman on February 24, 2005, 07:58:23 PM

I've really liked steam lately, these updates that valve keeps coming with also complete my wishlist. The little info update every week is a good idea, since valve was sort of weak in that area. Valve is doing a great job and should keep it up. What do you guys think?

Title: STEAM
Post by: Zero7 on February 24, 2005, 08:12:50 PM

Steam still sucks, IMO.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Diablus on February 24, 2005, 08:29:24 PM

Eh, i downloaded steam 2 years ago in September like an idiot falling for all those rumors of WON switching then. So I hated it with all my heart, but then after using it for about 4 months I started to grow fond of it. Its improved big time, so i appreciate it. besides it does one thing I love: Auto updates the "big" games. I mean comeon did you enjoy waiting 60 minutes on line / downloading patches from horrible hosts that are being flooded? No.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Isamil on February 24, 2005, 08:33:06 PM

I like steam

Title: STEAM
Post by: Leaderz0rz on February 24, 2005, 08:44:18 PM

i've never ever ever had a problem with steam, so compared to WoN i think its a step in the right direction for games. Ingame server browsers and mod selection is annoying imo. expecialy if you just want to see if the server is full or want to see who is playing. and i think steam is the first program to auctaly let you copy and paste things in the console =p

Title: STEAM
Post by: 2_of_8 on February 24, 2005, 09:48:22 PM

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I like that, but they should enable Ctrl+C as well, for those who refuse to use anything but shortcuts. Like me.

When I had my old computer, Steam games would run a lot faster than WON games, not sure why. About 10 fps increase, so that's nice, considering I was at ~20 in CS and ~5 in NS. With my new computer, I don't see much of a difference. Only it takes a while to close NS - about 10 seconds, I'm not used to that :)

I can't wait until NS becomes a "big game" and is updated automatically, is in the games list officially, etc.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Anarki3x6 on February 24, 2005, 09:53:30 PM

steam rox :) except when it breaks sometimes :(

Title: STEAM
Post by: X-S-Z on February 24, 2005, 10:12:41 PM

Never had a problem with steam, ever. I love it.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Owen on February 25, 2005, 04:24:04 AM

Well according to valve, things like the ever popular ticket error have been solved. So this means that Steam has gone up loads in my estimation. It's very diverse, and as much as I loved WON, Steam's just better.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Plaguebearer on February 25, 2005, 06:21:20 AM

I still get the ticket error. :/

Title: STEAM
Post by: SlickWill on February 25, 2005, 06:55:44 AM

I love steam, other than its crashes every once in a blue moon.  It can be a little touchy sometimes, but overall, the concept is great, no CDs to worry about.  Face it, you have your games anywhere, anytime, can't be that.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Malevolent on February 25, 2005, 10:39:25 AM

I hate Steam still because it sucks for dial-up users. But broadband is so close I can taste it.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Mr.Bill on February 25, 2005, 05:22:11 PM

After Me and steam had an arguement (I wanted to work, it didn't) I almost litterally beat it with a stick into ssubmission, were I broke it's will and got it working for my cause.


Ever since it's beating, it's been working great.

Title: STEAM
Post by: Clashen on February 25, 2005, 06:23:02 PM

It sucks cause it ignores me telling it NOT to auto-update stuff.
So if it even just starts downloading 1% update, i have to download the rest 99% of the game, at 56k, if i want to be able to play it.

Offlinemode sucks, otherwise it's ok.

Title: STEAM
Post by: duherman on February 25, 2005, 09:19:14 PM

I believe there working on that, in the meantime you can use my internet connection  :)

Title: STEAM
Post by: bacon_flaps on February 27, 2005, 08:50:18 PM

I REALLY LIKE STEAM A LOT, IT HAS BEEN GREAT TO ME! ESPECIALLY ON HL2'S RELEASE DAY.

Title: STEAM
Post by: duherman on February 27, 2005, 10:39:25 PM

Btw did I mention i stayed up till 2am the first day steam came out to signup for it and on the day hl2 was released I got it in a matter or 20 minutes so that isn't as bad as the other people who had to wait several hours.

Title: STEAM
Post by: TheMunch8 on March 03, 2005, 01:05:41 PM

Ive had Steam for a while now, and it has been nothing but good to me.  I bought HL2 the night of, and it took less then 30 min to authorize.  When i reformat my computer (which is a lot) all i have to do is copy the gcf files to my server, and then reformat, install steam, and copy them over, and it works.  This takes around 2 minutes of my time (and a long time copying) instead of waiting for it to install from a CD.


It works, but there are a couple of little things that could be added to make it better, such as:
- Ability to Reorder/group games by mod: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...threadid=194796 (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194796)
- Ability to save config files globaly: Such that my controls are same wherever i log in.  
- Support for 3rd party Mods in Steam Games (auto updates etc that is promised for NS):
could be done such that in the Developer SDK, you press Create A Mod, and you can desginate people on your team who can edit things and apply updates etc.  From this, the Browse Games can list all the mods in development and completed mods that are playable.  Also a link from the Mod homepage to install it (such like Steam://installmod=4893)
- A Better Friends System
- Vac actually working :-p

Title: STEAM
Post by: duherman on March 04, 2005, 11:45:26 AM

I also like the STEAM system, I now understand why Valve wanted to do this. I can go over to a friends and just log on to my steam account and play hl2 or whatever.

Title: STEAM
Post by: That Annoying Kid on March 04, 2005, 12:55:08 PM

as a 56.k user, I waited about 10 months after steam started running before actually installing it on my computer, and bringing the caches in on CD. Steam was a steaming POS, but now it's a sweet system that lets you play your games from basically any computer with fast access.

Overall I like it, it has vastly improved.

but it still sucks you can't ctrl+c  :huh: