Steam and Counter-Strike 1.6 are out

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-09-14 02:36pm

Pity...I rather liked NS.

Looks like I'll be logging more time on Raven Shield now.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-09-14 02:43pm

Apparently Valve is going to use Steam to force a more or less homogeneous client (executable) base - in other words, cheaters will be detected more easily this way. Unfortunately, this means that anyone who has HL1/CS hooked into Steam has to download the damned thing again for quality-of-service on Valve's part.

This doesn't stop mods, of course - in fact, it's a method for content delivery and price enforcement of modifications. I'm awaiting to see how well Steam works, though I have no plans to get HL2 (or D3, for that matter).

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-09-16 05:26am

Okay D/L that pos Steam, (found it on torrent with cs and hl)

Now it takes ~5 minutes to start, it dosen't remember my password and half the fucking time it crashes during startup.

WTF this is like an early beata!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-09-16 06:34am

"Whats that noise, Uncle Shep?"

"Why Timmy, it's the sound of Valve shooting themselves in the foot,
and then cutting their balls off in front of their fanbase!"

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-09-16 06:41am

Dear Valve, we're STILL WAITING
for Team Fortress 2, along with
all the "cool shit" that was supposed
to be implemented, and you instead
give us Steam, a buggy pile of shit
that bends us over and assrapes us?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-09-16 06:50am

MKSheppard wrote:Dear Valve, we're STILL WAITING
for Team Fortress 2, along with
all the "cool shit" that was supposed
to be implemented, and you instead
give us Steam, a buggy pile of shit
that bends us over and assrapes us?

Isn't that vaporware fucking cancelled yet?

Bill Door · Post by **Bill Door** » 2003-09-16 09:06am

Steam is working for me, but poorly. I had to reinstall steam after it proceded to repeatedly stop working, meaning i had to download halflife again. Its a resource and bandwith hog, and for what? the ability to stream updates to you!

Looks like Valve forgot the KISS principle...

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-09-16 02:38pm

Not to mention the "don´t try and fuck the customer in the ass unless you have a monopoly" principle...

Bill Door · Post by **Bill Door** » 2003-09-16 03:04pm

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Not to mention the "don´t try and fuck the customer in the ass unless you have a monopoly" principle...

Too true.
Apparently, one of the key Valve people worked for Microsoft... Is this coincidence or do microsoft have an employee training program with a module: 'Fucking over your consumers 101'?

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-09-16 03:22pm

Yeah, excepts he's too fucking stupid to realize that you can only do that when you've got the market in such a way that they're forced to buy your product. This is like IBM's MCA port fiasco all over again.