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"A message to Valve."

Get rid of Steam, and let us play CS like ANY OTHER NORMAL GAME.

"Updating Steam platform"

"Downloading updates for Counter Strike: Source"

"Steam has encountered an error and must shut down"

"Steam has detected that your game files are corrupt and will now redownload GCF files"

"cannot connect to Steam network"


ffs

Good idea with regards to anti-piracy, but the implementation is absolutely awful.

EVERYTHING I DID ON HL2

GONE









GONE

Steam does nothing properly. It once said that I couldn't sign into my account but it gave me no indication why. After a long while, I decided to uninstall Half Life 2 which made things a hell of a lot worse. If it's gonna mess up on me, then I at least want to know why.

Yeah the b*tches have somehow managed to screw up the offline Half-life 2 side. "Can not connect to Steam Network blah blah blah".

Any music I get is as a sampler. If I like it I get the album. Don't/Can't download games and films.

Other games prevent people from playing online with illegal copies without using crap launching programs, why should CS be any different?
Because it crashed while updating, it corrupted my files.

Then when I uninstalled Steam to try and make it connect again, it deleted HL2 and CS as well, including my savegames...
since when did "uninstall Steam" mean the same as "uninstall all my games"?
It gave no indication that it would affect HL2 at all. In fact, it was still in my programs list but all the files were non-existent.

I've just spent the last hour reinstalling my games, decrypting them and getting the updates all because of Steam messing up.

monkey_man wrote:
> I think it's great. The amount of time and effort they've put into
> ensuring we get a fantastic gaming experience for the amount we pay,
> and the amount we pay guaranteeing they can continue to produce
> excellent games...why should someone get that for free when we have
> to pay?

I assume your talking about anti-piracy. there arn't really any games that are completely protected, CSS and half-life2 have pirate releases. Steam was quite a good idea, and i can see other companies trying a similar thing.

Can you honestly say you have never downloaded music or something you shouldn't on the net? not many people can, i can't i'm a filthy pirate i have excepted it.

I think it's great. The amount of time and effort they've put into ensuring we get a fantastic gaming experience for the amount we pay, and the amount we pay guaranteeing they can continue to produce excellent games...why should someone get that for free when we have to pay?

Well, you can't play CSS or HL2DM without Steam anyway.

Their system obviously can't handle the stress. This is the second time in the last few weeks that there has been a mass failure making it impossible for a large number of users to sign in.

Lipe wrote:
> Forget e-mailing Valve...their forums are much better.

Already gave up on emailing them.

Forget e-mailing Valve...their forums are much better.