  rudnickePremium
join:2004-10-23
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kudos:1 | Oh great! Guess I better enjoy my games before Google starts injecting ads into them. | |
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1 edit | Re: Oh great! Google is good. Stop your whining. Would you rather Yahoo or EA buy Valve???? | |
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join:2004-03-15
Neenah, WI
kudos:1 | Re: Oh great! if thats the choice we have, EA or google... hope to god for google.
EA sucks. | |
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| | | | | Re: Oh great! I guess I like Command and Conquer to much. I also seem to remember some other EA games I liked (to old to remember). So I guess I disagree that EA sucks. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Oh great! I like command and conquer also. Every game i have purchased so far has not had any drm. Hopefully Red Alert 3 will be the same way... And i don't think Google buying valve is a bad thing at all. | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Oh great! Nope, your SCREWED. EA is polluting Red Alert 3 with the same DRM garbage BS that they put into Spore. I was in the beta, and as soon as I heard that, I uninstalled it. I'm done with EA's crap. | |
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join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | most of the better C&C games came out when EA wasn't the franchise owner. | |
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join:2002-01-30
Valley Stream, NY | Best C&C Games came out when Westwood was developing them.
Good old days. C&C3 wasn't bad, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the original. | |
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join:2002-06-08
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kudos:2 | Re: Oh great! Yahoo over Google?????? WHAT!!!!!!!!!! Please tell me you are not going to have any kids! | |
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join:2008-01-03
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| | |  Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | EA has been playing relatively nicely recently. EA also doesn't have a record of your whole life down to what commercial you get up to drop a deuce while you watch Lost. I'd rather have EA.
Either way, I seriously doubt this is at all true at this point. It would be more believable if it were Microsoft. | |
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West Des Moines, IA | Re: Oh great! Microsoft had their chance and passed on them. So did Yahoo. | |
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | Re: Oh great! Doesn't mean they wouldn't offer at a later point. Google and Valve don't seem to be a good fit.
Valve has a very different style of developing games that would likely conflict with the interests of management at a larger company. I seriously doubt that they will sell out until most of the founders are ready to retire/leave. | |
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join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | Google isn't always good, and they can always get worse. Nobody starts out intending to be a monopoly that behaves badly. | |
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| | |  bear73Metnav... Fly The Unfriendly SkiesPremium
join:2001-06-09
Grand Forks Afb, ND | Re: Oh great! one word. GREED.
a profitable business plan can mean long-term profits and long- term wealth, OR you can sell for a butt-load of cash NOW and get rich quick.
then you can concentrate on the Next Big Thing...
not to mention everyone seems to want everything NOW instead of working hard, saving, and accumulating wealth oer time.
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| interesting. the platform only took off due to the popularity of counterstrike back then. I used it. I hated it. I will likely never purchase another game from that system again. Too many problems with not being able to play in a LAN setting if there was no internet.
However, I do wonder why they didn't approach the Penny Arcade online distribution platform. It's named something with "green" in the title.
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| |  dnoyeBFerrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI | Re: Oh great! Me too. I like Half-Life 2. I put up with Steam because I was forced too. I hate it, and it has kept me from following Half-Life into many of its subsequent additions and enhancements. I love the idea of something to prevent hacking so we can have a fair game. But I can't stand all the junk with Steam.
Plus I paid for my game and I still have to watch Steam adds for more games. Its offensive.
I can't stand installers putting icons on my desktop without asking, I certainly can't stand the way Steam injects itself into my experience.
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Every time I have installed a game with Steam (that would be hundreds of times at this point) the last thing that happens at the end of every install, without a single exception, is it asks "Would you like Steam to place a shortcut on your desktop?" at which point you can say no. It's amazing how much better software works when you learn how to use it and pay attention to what it's doing and what it's asking you. | |
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join:2002-07-10
Port Orchard, WA
kudos:6 | Re: Oh great! Every time steam loads itself for me, it pops up with an ad. | |
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I just hope that they don't change anything and keep everything the way it is.
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could be pretty interesting if the ads get hacked or adult orientated ads get mixed in, could lead for some interesting reactions. | |
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New Bedford, MA | Steam Steam already uses a good amount of ads as it is i dont think that it will get any worse.
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join:2008-07-10
New Bedford, MA | Re: Steam i agree completely | |
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join:2002-08-14
Sterling Heights, MI | So much for company slogans "Don't Be Evil!" Whatever happen to that slogan Google? Stop trying to take over the world. | |
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nothing good comes from keeping your services in "beta" for years and under lock and key to join.
The only thing they're doing that helps the community is Grand Central which was fine without them. Google took over and locked them down. for what reason? they can control it all.
They're starting to be worse than Microsoft as far as control. | |
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|  R4M0NBrazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA
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|  swhx7Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | As someone suggested below, maybe Google will improve features of Steam that map to Google services, such as calendar and email. That could be beneficial to users. And Google as a gaming hub? Welll...
I'm certainly never going to install any closed-source application on my computer if Google is involved in it. If it is eventually required in order to use Google services, I'll have to abandon Google.
The Google toolbar is treacherous enough. Steam is an even more powerful application. To have this installed on millions of PCs and reporting back to an omnivorous data-mining company would remove any remaining validity from the "don't be evil" slogan. | |
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join:2007-12-26
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1 edit | I don't like change I used to hate Steam but now I dig it big time, especially since I don't have to carry discs or use no cd cracks to play on multiple machines. As far as ad injection, I opposed the premise at the time but in playing the games I actually like it a bit. Yeah, I voted against before I voted for it 
It's the unknown that I'm not a fan of. I don't like media consolidation and when I have so much dough tied up in Steam titles and we see changes like this it makes me nervous. Nothing may change, a lot may change. | |
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|  NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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| Re: I don't like change said by Dogfather:I used to hate Steam but now I dig it big time, especially since I don't have to carry discs or use no cd cracks to play on multiple machines. As far as ad injection, I opposed the premise at the time but in playing the games I actually like it a bit. Yeah, I voted against before I voted for it It's the unknown that I'm not a fan of. I don't like media consolidation and when I have so much dough tied up in Steam titles and we see changes like this it makes me nervous. Nothing may change, a lot may change. Best comment I have read in this section so far. Its the unknown that makes me nervous as well. Same with everyone who buys games from Steam. To see a system like Steam that has come so far and is already a major player in game distribution being bought out by Google makes me nervous as well. What I can say is that Google does a good job with all acquisitions they have had so far. Take Postini for instance. They integrated it with Gmail and Google Apps to make their spam filtering the best.
This news report is only speculation right now though. | |
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| | valve = sooper greed Valve is taking steam in the wrong direction. VAlve is going to start charging per hour of play if google does not step in | |
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| | | Re: valve = sooper greed Want to post a source for that pile of BS? Didn't think so. | |
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| | Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | Re: valve = sooper greed said by ender7074:Want to post a source for that pile of BS? Didn't think so. I just love when people bash valve for being greedy. They've probably given away more free content than any other game company ever. | |
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| Re: valve = sooper greed said by Combat Chuck:said by ender7074:Want to post a source for that pile of BS? Didn't think so. I just love when people bash valve for being greedy. They've probably given away more free content than any other game company ever. Agreed! They are one of the few player oriented gaming stuidos left unlike EA and the other giants. | |
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | Re: valve = sooper greed said by ender7074:Agreed! They are one of the few player oriented gaming stuidos left unlike EA and the other giants. Now don't get me wrong, most of it isn't truly "free", it's just that they've found a way to make working for them for free beneficial (as in modmakers creating new content and the fact that much of the free content that they produce is there at least partially to test new gameplay concepts for their next game.) It's symbiotic.
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join:2002-08-27
Hickory, NC | OMG NOOOOOO! i like valve and steam but after what google did to youtube i don't want any part of this deal.
playing since halflife first came out when my pc had a 56k modem and overclocked PII 450mhz with 3dfx video
I just got the ID pack a few weekends ago even tho i already owned and lost most of those games just to have them again
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join:2000-06-24
Modesto, CA | Re: OMG NOOOOOO! actually I was playing HL way before a 450mhz came out | |
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join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | Remember when Sierra ran the show through the WON servers?
It took months for any problems to get fixed waiting for the corporate turds to get things running.
Oh, my OC celeron 300a w v2 sli smoked the p2 450
I was in clan SMACK smacking on LPB's in HLDM with my 56k.
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join:2001-06-09
Grand Forks Afb, ND | Re: What the hell... I don't think so. STEAM is a game verification and patch/updater software, among otehr things. it prevents pirating of games and cheating in on-line play (to some degree)
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1 edit | google steam Interesting this would be a very good thing.
Especially if they integrate gmail,google calender and Google talk into it and remove the god awful current friends & calender system currently in steam.
Plus with the bandwidth problems valves has when new games are released Google would probably fix that. | |
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| | Now google will have a name to go with that IP address. Now google will have a name to go with that IP address.
With your name, they get your home address and phone number. | |
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join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN | Countdown. Won't be long till Google makes the T-Virus.
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Hingham, MA | Google Valve? Hm, this would be a very interesting move that would put Google squarely in the content development business, unless they followed their buyout by immediately dumping Valve's game studios off to someone else (I'd guess EA, which just ended their attempt at a takeover of Take-Two) | |
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join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | Re: Google & Valve = perfect marriage Portal and TF2, as good as they are, are add-on's. Atleast Portal's short as is. TF2 is HL2 DM with cooler guns and team work mechanics... | |
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| |  TechieZeroTools Are Using MePremium
join:2002-01-25
Gibsonton, FL
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| said by Whohangs:Guess you've never heard of Portal or Team Fortress 2... Oh, and Left 4 Dead is coming out this November. Yes smartass, I have. I have played every Valve game out, which is not hard to say. | |
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join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | It will never happen Valve is making way to much money on their own right now with steam. | |
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join:2002-02-15
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1 edit | Re: so mtv says no? 1. The inquirer is not more credible than MTV.
2. Valve is not a publicly traded company, so Doug Lombardi, marketing director and public voice of valve, doesn't follow the same rules or procedures as them (they may be fine with discussing rumors without a press release). | |
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