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Comments on news posted 2008-04-30 16:38:40: Valve's broadband video game delivery system Steam had a rocky beginning, the company barely able to keep their then 500Mbps pipe operational when the most recent Counter-Strike patch was released. ..
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norky
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join:2002-12-02
Lithia, FL
1 edit | Re; Steam EDIT: 6 years here and I'm still a noob. | |
| geowil
join:2008-04-20
Laveen, AZ
 ·Qwest.net
 ·Cox HSI
| Steam is good, has its short comings though (modders know... what i am talking about.)
while the main UI and features of steam have come a LONG way since i first downloaded it back in 04, there are still very large issues with it.
Namely the number of weird and debilitating issues it can cause with Source SDK.
most notoriously, the multiple registry access bug (sometimes steam accesses its own registry file more then once and ties itself up so that no actions can be made, such as running a game or building a map). It causes several issues through out steam and sometimes not even restarting steam or ever your computer can fix it. Its one of those "If you ignore it long enough it goes away" kinda bugs.
and us moders also know about less and more annoying issues as well.
But, yes, the steam game catalog is very extensive. And also has non-main stream games/companies (such as Peggle or Uplink) and free games as well as demos and game play videos/trailers.
All in all i am in the middle as far as my ranking of Steam. The main features work, but there are still some major bugs to deal with. | |
| Col_DH
join:2004-03-28
Northridge, CA
| Love Hate When it first came out, I hated it so badly.
It wasn't till after a few other games they sold but didn't develope came out (Dangerous Waters namely) that I realized how well this concept working out now.
I just hate the patches/update and their ability to do things on time seem to lack. Last nights TF2 update was just another reminder that.
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Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
·Colbanet
| Steam is great, but... I miss a certain feature from the early beta of Steam v1. This was the beta that predates the current version of Steam, and never went public.
This feature is dynamic loading of content. I fired up Half-Life (the original, this significantly predates HL2) and required only a few megabytes of data to begin. And while I was playing one level, it would be downloading the next.
It sometimes slightly extended the load pages as it waited for the downloading to catch up if I was playing quickly (this was in the day of 1.2mbit DSL, not our current 5-7 megabit basic speeds), but it was really neat playing a game that was streaming content for the next level as I played the current one.
This doesn't seem to be the case these days; you need to have an entire Steam game before it will let you play it. | |
| | | CSU
join:2002-10-21
Lagrange, GA | Steam.... I've never used steam, and I'm wondering, what if steam went out of business? What would happen to all the games you bought? | |
| | hkancyr
join:2003-08-05
West Haven, CT
| Re: Steam.... My Steam games are backed up, via the steam backup app onto DVD's mostly for re-installation after a rebuild.
I just installed Steam on my media computer in the living room and restoring from backup images is way faster than DLing my many STEAM games, I get the updates in short order and it's ready to go.
The backup images are available offline so if STEAM goes belly-up I guess the games would be available that way. | |
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bgd73
@verizon.net
| am glad they made it happen older than the valve steam dream, is "WON" gaming with original half life. it is actually 10 years struggling, it may seem easier now, but of course still growing faster than perfection can keep. I like what they have done. I was a victim of bad nets and operating systems back when they hardly had enough to keep up with not so many millions of people. Incredible growth. Even my own net is 3mbit, and possibly 56mbit in my neighborhood soon enough. I am very much adult now compared to then, glad I went for the ride...still play my favorites in fact through steam. | |
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