Steam needs to sort out their interface

eekfek said:
you 'implied' that piracy would have solved your problems, why you felt the need to suggest this only you know... !

you state that the 'steam interface' needs to be sorted out !!! yet the thousands of customers/users seem to be able to get their head round it without the drama !!

you feel the need to come clean about previous piracy and tell us you now have a job !! whoopee doo !!!

look, im not having a 'go' at you but throwing a can of beer out of the window because some software didnt work ? come on, rattle and pram doesnt spring to mind ?

anyways i hope you have it all sorted, Titan Quest is a great game :eek:
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I can understand where the misinformation originated, and I won't shirk from taking my share of the blame. Sunday dinner is a time for my family to get together, it was my turn to host and beers aren't conducive to patient reasoning. The piracy reference was meant as a highlight, not a vindication, but "rattle and pram" is a fair jab - there is, however, a short but very, very boring backstory behind my trying to get this download sorted. My point was that for a legitimate software downloader, you'd think they would make more of an effort. Just compare the summary screen on any torrent downloader you've ever used to Steam's 'games' pages. Anyway, in the spirit of drunken outbursts, no harm, no foul. Hopefully both ways.
 
Download CSS at 1.5MB/sec and took me like 4/5 hours to DL L4D. Sometimes theres not much you can do.

Also at peak times the download becomes slower.
 
Been using steam since launch and apart from the odd busy launch day ive never had any problems.

Steam seems to have an odd effect on people though, you rarely see threads like 'having a problem with steam' it tends to be 'ohhh emmmm geee! Steam are thhe wurst thing evaaa!'/
 
I was a reluctant steam user to start with because i like to have a hard copy.

After nearly 30 years of pc and console gaming i decided to either throw out my old games or get a bigger house.

Steam was cheaper, i am more selective with my purchases, and i now know what i like, so i don't buy any game released just because i want to.

Steam saves space. and has worked ok for me from day one.

You would be suprised how much space 30 years of computer boxes take up.(we are talking rooms here).
 
Once again, it's not the speed that's the problem. I know my connection needs work, and it's being addressed. I'm disappointed in the interface - the lack of information, and the initial lie of 100% completion when it was a litle over 55% downloaded.

Once again, SPEED IS NOT THE ISSUE. Really, really not. Just the platform.
 
Deadbeat said:
Once again, it's not the speed that's the problem. I know my connection needs work, and it's being addressed. I'm disappointed in the interface - the lack of information, and the initial lie of 100% completion when it was a litle over 55% downloaded.

Once again, SPEED IS NOT THE ISSUE. Really, really not. Just the platform.
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But by the sounds of things this problem (requiring 2 seperate updates?) is more likely linked to that one particular game, than being a problem with Steam.
 
Steam always seems to max my connection out 1.1MB/s down loads, makes it good for getting TF2 to work again once it does its buggy map thing and won't load some maps.

KaHn
 
Steam is no where near as bad as people say it is.

I have never had any issues with it and it always downloads at fast speeds.

The interface works and i don't see why it should be changed.

(Oops, forgot it had swearing so have removed the .gif)
 
Dark_Angel said:
I am sorry but I am laughing :p

Steam always gives me super fast download speeds.
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Learn to read, the OP quite clearly said in numerous posts that speed is not the problem. I agree to some extent that it should say amount downloaded out of total, but the way it works at the moment is fine for me and never had a problem with it.
 
I love steam but hate its exchange rates :(

Although they have got slightly better recently but mainland europe never seems to get the same deals the UK does :(
 
Dont forget not all games are hosted by Steam/Valve.

A lot of games are hosted by the publishers own servers, Epic host the UT3 stuff.

So its not always Steams fault.

I would still like the option, if a game I already own a pyhiscal copy of a game that is released on Steam, to be able to use the product key and get the digital copy

Kimbie
 
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