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Peter Tsang

Peter Tsang

Peter Tsang

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Hi folks,

I have just purchased Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and I didn;t realize it is required to download via Steam!!!!!!!:mad: Extremely angry!:mad:

I have no experience in purchasing games from retail store for a year or so and I am outdated!

Had i noticed the little label at the back of the box I would not have purchased it!!!! HKD 320 is quite a lot to me for a game to be downloaded from a ****ing slow server like Steam!!!!

I dont know Steam and I am not prejudiced but I hate buying a product with a full retail price and I have to wait for hours to have it appear on my hard drive, also I have no idea as to how to back it up on hard drive or DVD rom!!!!!!

Can any folks up here tell me what forth coming games are Steam and Steam only, I would rather not play these games. Also does this Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for pC has a non Steam version???

By the way my download speed is only 80 KB/s !!!!! No swearing disguised or not!

Also can folks help by telling me wher this ****ing download is going into on my Windows, I mean which folder so that I can dump them on to my hard drive in case I need to reinstall due to a reinstall of Windows THANKS in advance!!!
 
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Excuse me folks! I am with you I am afraid!
After inserting Disc 1 it installs Steam Automatically.

I check the contents of the Disc, the setup is for the Steam software....

Can you explain a bit more? Thanks!!!


By the Way I bought Cliff of Dover from another retail store and the Key has been registered before!!!!! I dont like Steam anyway!
 
Actually installing PC games are getting annoying recently!

I have paid quite a bit for LOCK ON Platinum and Rise of Flights. RoF is okay.
But LOCKON has limited number of Activations. First I dont know why they have to impose this, I find it inconvenient. I use reborn software SteadyState and Faronics. I nearly use up all the activations....

Why all these fuzz??
 
Finally it's working!!

But hell I dont know what I have done as different from what I did before.

Anyway the screen coming up now...

I did a reboot though and my Faronics reborn software is still active

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****ing hell! There is another problem now!

It says my router is Strict

What the bloody hell is this I play other games online mutliplayer without ever the need to touch my router!!!!!!

This is ****ing **** hole thing that COD is putting on to players.

What the hell are the reasons for this!??????????

What I expect is I pay for a game, go home install it and play the ****ing game out of it! I dont want all these hassles as to adjust this and adjust that!!!

GO TO HELL infinity ward!!! I dont need this ****ing options

I just need to get the game going with the minimum user homework what if we know nothing about computer!!!!

This is competely mental what the ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
What I am not happy about it is that why not leave it as it is, there is no need to remove the UI features likeit used to be.

Battlefield still uses its old interafce a gmae browser lists all the games and leave it for the players to decide what to jonn
No need to do this ****ing matching
It matches me to players with 0 scores???
Then it says host migration fails or something
nobody knows what that is, do you know what that is
Use common simple messages so every one understands

I am a causual players i just got 2 days in a week to play and i dont spped every hour of these 2 precious days just for sorting out what goes wrong in my router!!!!

Abd by the way, is this Strict router thing has anything to do with just joining games I dont host any games.....

****!
 
geon106 said:
Firstly, relax, your grammar and spelling are suffering for it.

Secondly, when i first heard of Steam when was eagerly awaiting Half-Life 2. However when you use Steam you realise its actually a great program.

As people have said and you've found out you can install from disk, but all updates are done over the cloud.

These are the reasons why I like Steam:

1: Unified location, 1 program to launch all your games, even non-steam games
2. Interface, the in game overlay is great allowing you to chat to people in other games, browse the net etc from within the game
3. Auto-update, all your games remain up to date for you
4. Backup, if you lose your CD, or CD Key, it is stored on Steam. Honestly saved me from buying about 3 games due to damaged disks
5. As mentioned before, chat facility and acheivements
6. Purchase via the cloud, you can buy a game and download it straight away, no need to wait for the stores or open or for delivery

There are many other advantages.

I appreciate your internet speed as a factor, even if installing from a disk you have to update over the internet. But your internet seems awefully slow. When I first got steam and had 512kbps broadband, downloading HL2 which was about, 5GB or so, took about 2 hours or so

As for the error you received, that may be more to do with the game rather than Steam as i've never seen anything remotely similar in any of my Steam games about the router

But i'd give Steam a chance, its honestly not a bad service at all. I hope you get your problems sorted out.
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That's true. I broke my Battlefield 2 disc and I paid some extra money to buy another one. I appreciate that.
But the download speed is awful in this part of the world.
Having said that honestly, if I paid for a game talking about GB size I don't want to get it from Steam or whoever is doing the same. I have no patience about this, actually about everything which I pay for it.
I can understand the brilliant concept of Steam apart from the backup facilities I can agree nothing more than that.
 
orderoftheflame said:
Aaand breathe.

MW2 uses a P2P model, not client/server like the majority of games. Hence why you have to matchmake rather than use the server browser.
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Look, i just click the multiplayer icon on my desktop and i thought that's all i ned to do to play the game, plug and play man!

Where can I find the game browser i dont even see any thing on the UI which leads me to that....this game sucks big time!!!!! **** !
 
geon106 said:
to your previous posts about what does host migration fail mean:

Means that when moving from one host to another the connection has failed



Have you tried restarting your computer and router/modem? Just slightly off topic, but how old are you?
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I have tried restarting my PC and the modem but they dont help at all

I am 28, I think what I need is the game browser like all the CoD games before. The current MP arrangement is not handy nor efficient. It tries to "Find" a game quickly for you, but what I end up with is a fail message and no game at all!
So I paid HK$320 for a game which gives me no multiplayer and needs me to sort out my hardware issue...I really don't understand wy so many people say MW2 is a good game by the look of this.
 
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