Steam. Hating over?

I don't think someone should have to admit they were wrong for hating it in the past but now liking it; it's an evolving piece of software that barely resembles its original release build. I hated steam because it broke Team Fortress Classic for me, my key-binds that i had spent years of competitive play perfecting stopped functioning correctly, connection issues were created, half of my clan couldn't register their cd-key because they were apparently already taken and it really threw a spanner into the works for the competitive gaming side of it which was already suffering at the time.

To be honest i view steam as a large part of the cause of the downfall of TFC which was my favorite game at the time, possibly of all time, that's why i disliked it. It is a very good piece of software now, it could potentially become the application that drives PC gaming back into contention for the majority share of the gaming market a few years down the line.
 
My only gripe with Steam is that its stupidly slow to load.. the time it takes from loading steam to getting in a TF2 game seems to take forever.. And 80% of this time is tekn with stupid "update news" and stuff.. all i want is a friend and server list. All those updates and pictures just take ages.. Plus it takes even longer to load on my work PC.. especially if the bandwidth is a bit throttled.
 
My only gripe with Steam is that its stupidly slow to load.. the time it takes from loading steam to getting in a TF2 game seems to take forever.. And 80% of this time is tekn with stupid "update news" and stuff.. all i want is a friend and server list. All those updates and pictures just take ages.. Plus it takes even longer to load on my work PC.. especially if the bandwidth is a bit throttled.

You do realise you can turn off the update news in the options, right?

TF2 taking a short while to launch seems to be something specific to all source-based games. Other games all seem to launch immediately for me. Perhaps they'll be able to improve on this in the future.
 
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