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"Steam is utter shiite!"

Why do I have to unlock my files over steam when I bought Half Life 2 from the soddin' shop. To make matters worse steams servers are currently too busy therefore I'm having huge problems unlocking them. I'm not impressed AT ALL. I shouldn't have to pay £30 buying the game from a shop to get home and do this crap.

oh thats wonderful news i have already been waiting for my preorder coming from the powers that watch and just spoke to them they said that it should of arrived today and if its lost in the post i have to wait another 15days before they will resend it. should of gone to the shop. and now i have to wait for 2 days verification. thats well naff. they should of build there disks better if it takes that long to check there own game.

It keeps trying to connect whenever i turn on the computer, i shall be putting a stop to that.

I was going to say, when first it came out you had to be connected at all times to play the offline games.

I don't mind it now.

I've had little problems with it, though I remember the headache it gave me when I first installed it.

Hehe...I'm a regular CS gamer so I'm used to steam and it's annoying problems. I knew it was going to happen with HL2, it happens with CS every now and then so it was definetely going to happen with HL2.

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, I hate Steam.

I shouldn't have to connect to steam to play offline. Sometimes it even says Half-Life 2 isn't available. How crap can you get?

tigamilla wrote:
> Damarus wrote:
> Why do I have to unlock my files over steam when I bought Half Life
> 2
> from the soddin' shop. To make matters worse steams servers are
> currently too busy therefore I'm having huge problems unlocking
> them.
> I'm not impressed AT ALL. I shouldn't have to pay £30 buying
> the game from a shop to get home and do this crap.
>
> Well I can understand the bitterness that led Valve to such a drastic
> registration process; Battles over fees with Vivendi - their
> publisher, code that ended up on the net etc..
>
> I guess to make enough money to stay in business by lessening piracy
> and hopefully make it as far as Half life 3, this is what it takes.


Yeah, I don't blame them for using this method at all, but I just wish they'd made steam a bit more reliable... I mean, even when it's all working as well as it does, the buddy thing seems to sign out every 3 seconds. There are so many issues with connecting to it... it's ridiculous.

I agree with you Damarus.

Damarus wrote:
> Why do I have to unlock my files over steam when I bought Half Life 2
> from the soddin' shop. To make matters worse steams servers are
> currently too busy therefore I'm having huge problems unlocking them.
> I'm not impressed AT ALL. I shouldn't have to pay £30 buying
> the game from a shop to get home and do this crap.

Well I can understand the bitterness that led Valve to such a drastic registration process; Battles over fees with Vivendi - their publisher, code that ended up on the net etc..

I guess to make enough money to stay in business by lessening piracy and hopefully make it as far as Half life 3, this is what it takes.