i hate steam so much

[Sonic the Vampire]

I can't do anything with it. It doesn't update for me when it says it is updating, hours just go by without a bar on the screen. It couldn't even create a damn account for me, it just said "connection was reset by peer" and that I timed out.

My system is pretty damn powerful but it can't even copy files from my god damn half life folder into the steam folder in half of the time that I could do it manually. This thing is slow...

 

[Zenny]

Alright let's see here. If you don't want Counter-Strike open up the "Games" menu and rightclick on Counterstrike goto Properties and near the bottom you should see a button "Delete Local Game Content" and there you go.

As for the horrible first day or two, the blame is the amount of people worldwide getting it at once, the 3 or so servers hosting this stuff, and not releasing Steam with HL and CS cache files.

Just give it a couple days and things should start running smoothly.

 

[SierraSonic]

Zenny dont be pro ****, its not nice for you.

 

[Arthos]

It worked. It actually Worked.....I can't beleive it. I've already gotten NS to work on it, now I'll try TS.

 

[Morrone]

After many hours I finally got CS installed on steam but then I kept timing out and now I can't even log in.

Apparently steam is down for the entire world because I am pretty sure my internet is working. Yep, pretty sure.

 

[fryd4good]

Far as I'm concerned, anyone who downloads Steam after all that's been said about it deserves what they get.

 

[Morrone]

Well you must not be very highly concerned because thw WON servers are going to be shut down soon enough.

 

[Sonic the Vampire]

1.) There is (0) evidence to support WON closing in the near future.

2.) Steam isn't nearly as bad once you actually get it working and connect to a game like Natural Selection. I would say it is an improvement as a matter of fact, and a big one. The problem lies in both connecting and retrieving updates from Steam, and connecting to servers through Steam, both of which are incredibly slow processes which need to be hammered on.

 

[Morrone]

1. Everyone knows Steams is replacing WON, I wouldn't be surprised if it were completely replaced by the time of HL2.

2. The problem is you hardly anyone can get it working.

 

[dark slayer]

bye bye lan games no bots no lans

 

[owa]

Why would they hsut down WON? somthing happen I missed?

 

[ssj3 vegitto]

nope they yust suddenly decided to use STEAMing pile of ****

 

[Wizard's Curse]

Yup its going down ... we have to d/l like 500 mb ... awsome ... and I have 56K FFS

Steam also has the min requirmints(sp?) of 400 mhz and 64 ram ... HL HAS HALF THAT ... this will discriminate ppl with crap comps ... I even heard of ppl finding spyware in steam ... Its a big mistake valve is doing :no:


HORRAY for steam !!

 

[Sonic the Vampire]

The spyware is a myth, WON is closing but not for at least two weeks, and no offense, but Half Life is a 1997/1998 game. It's almost 2004. Anyone with a 6 year old computer has a more powerful system than Half Life's reccomended system requirements, which should be somewhere around Steam's minimum requirements. I see nothing wrong with Steam requiring users to update from 8 year old comps to 5 or 6 year old comps for the additional features.

 

[fryd4good]

Ergh, wait, if WON goes down, does that mean everyone needs Steam, even for MODs? So... we'll have to play ESF over Steam?

 

[Morrone]

Yes, everything over Steam. And I love that picture WC, hilarious!

I've finally gotten Steam to work and CS 1.6 kicks ass!

Steam is really going to be hell for the first few months but there is no way they are going to go back to WON now.

 

[Lynxy]

I'll dl steam whenever I'm forced to when playing ESF. So far so good, havn't had any difficulties. Just don't hope it's as bad as people say it is.

 

[fryd4good]

Yeah, that's all we can do, kinda hope for the best.

 

[Trov]

damn, This sucks. that means I have to update my computer with more gigs... And I don't have the money for that. Damn it Valve. Might as well get a new computer. Gotta download Steam so I can beat the rush once WON goes down.

 

[TwisteR]

do the number of votes on that petition actually affect if WON servers get shut down or not?