Steam. Hating over?
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I never hated it. I thought the concept of it was cool, then it sort of evolved from a propriety patching and verification middleman between Valve and their games to an accommodating platform that people could buy games from, and put in a pool following your user account without hassle.
Wow, it seriously seems like yesterday that i was inserting my half-life 1 CD-key into the beta and filing a bug report cause it was already taken
I was about to leave a similar comment on the 'crysis warhead & steam' thread. I never hated it. Most of the negative comments i remember where before it came out/ the release of HL2 and everyone was worried and well very negative.
I reinstalled it for a play of HL2 a few days ago and am very impressed with it now.
oh, I was very annoyed when i had ripped open the HL2 box and wanted to play it, and spent over an hour online with my 56k
while it installed. and then I had to connect to the internet quickly when ever i wanted to play... god bless broadband
I reinstalled it for a play of HL2 a few days ago and am very impressed with it now.
oh, I was very annoyed when i had ripped open the HL2 box and wanted to play it, and spent over an hour online with my 56k
while it installed. and then I had to connect to the internet quickly when ever i wanted to play... god bless broadband Ive alweays thought it was a good idea and program but i think its turned out a bit different than Gabe Newell originally thought. I recall one video interview he was talking about steam being able to let you play a game which wasnt fully downloaded, you could basically load up the game while dloading and play through it as it was dloading.
Don't think thats ever happened in any game so far but its easily the best online service for games there is.
Don't think thats ever happened in any game so far but its easily the best online service for games there is.
I used to quite dislike steam when it first came out, it was buggy, slow and caused a lot of problems on my brothers machine.
However over the past few years they're got it pretty well polished, much more reliable and have done a lot to prove that their drm isn't too bad (largely by making it so easy to use on different machines - linking the games to an account rather than specific machine is the way to go imo).
However over the past few years they're got it pretty well polished, much more reliable and have done a lot to prove that their drm isn't too bad (largely by making it so easy to use on different machines - linking the games to an account rather than specific machine is the way to go imo).
Ive never had a single problem with Steam and the content keeps getting better. My only issue with it is that the big name titles on there like COD4 often cost more than they would in the shops, ive only used it for Valve games and a few of the cheaper original titles like Audiosurf and Peggle.
now thats annoying!
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Ive never hated it, works fine for me, and getting games off it is a doddle. 
I don't know why a lot of people slate it tbh.
I don't know why a lot of people slate it tbh.
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Feel the same way.
When it first was implemented I wasn't it's biggest fan (I didn't hate it, but it was annoying... especially the friends list).
Now though it seems a pretty speedy experience. I don't buy that much stuff through it, mostly half lifes, and COD4, but each time I have it hasn't given me any issues. Even downloading the games is pretty quick.
If I could say one bad word against it, and its not really steams fault is the pricing structure of some of the games is still a little on the expensive side, compared to online stores. Not all of the time, but just on the odd occasion.
