Steam officially available

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-14 11:09pm

Now you can *legally* get Steam 2.0 (which is currently the only way to play Counter-Strike 1.6) from their official website. Before, you could get it everywhere. Now, noone cares if you do!

Off-topic: I am playing DoD. I take back all I said about it, I love the new version. Soo fun. In fact, I'm off to play right now.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-07-14 11:21pm

I've had steam on my HD since january

It wasn't illegal back then to get it either

And I played CS 1.6 beta several times since then.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-15 02:11pm

Hamel wrote:I've had steam on my HD since january It wasn't illegal back then to get it either

And I played CS 1.6 beta several times since then.

yes it was. They allowed people do download it for like an hour, got their servers overloaded, then denied ever releasing it. So, noone was supposed to have it. Not really illegal, but ya, you could only get it from everywhere BUT the official place, now you can get it officially.

Mutant Headcrab · Post by **Mutant Headcrab** » 2003-07-15 04:21pm

How "free" is Steam? Im often times skeptical about these kinds of things. If I get it I want to make sure there isn't any kind of catch, behind using it.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2003-07-15 04:27pm

well if you were a gamespot or fileshack subscriber, you could get it

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Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-15 04:28pm

Mutant Headcrab wrote:How "free" is Steam? Im often times skeptical about these kinds of things. If I get it I want to make sure there isn't any kind of catch, behind using it.

Currently it is free. In the future, they plan to let you download steam, then pay for a game, download the crucial parts of the game, and be just like downloading it off a CD. If you already HAVE the game (such as Half-Life), you input your CD key, and it acts as a subscription for the game, forever (no pay-per-month crap here, as far as I know). It is a very good system, I think.

Oh, and the videos from Half-Life 2 (the parts of the presentation from E3 first, then more) are being released (very high quality, no shaky digital camera footage) for Steam subscribers ONLY. I've seen the first video, looks fucking incredible. GET STEAM!

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2003-07-16 03:52am

that movie has been out in gamespot alot earlier, it was free for a couple of days.