09-06-2003, 01:37 AM
I have been reading this forum thread " Steam Status "
I'm upto page 15 of it and so far here is what is pissing me off about steam....
1) Everyone will have to switch over to steam to play regular half-life and its mods
2) when switching to steam you get a new id, this means all the cheaters and hackers and stuff also get new ids so all those once banned are not free to do what ever they want again
3) You will need to have steam running to play the games and need to start the games up through steam
4) If you don't want to switch over to steam you will be shit out of luck to play any valve games
5) You can't just leave steam off and download a patch off some server. You will need to leave it on to get auto updates (which could have viruses in them) I like to scan every file that comes onto my system before I use it.
6) If I need to reformat my drive, I will have to redownload the patch via steam. As it is now, I keep patchs on my drive and if I need to reformat I drop the patch on CD or another drive. With steam I won't be able to do that
7) It also sounds like they will be using my net connection to send stuff to other people. I have limited amount of bandwidth, I don't have enough to send to other people all the time while I'm playing games.
8) I don't care about no stupid buddy list. Give it a little time and I will get that same list in Trillian.
9) If a random key generator is made and someone gets my key that is on the box I buy before I buy it, then how the heck do I play the game even thou I have the actual legal version
10) There are already known hacks for Steam. What if someone hacks it and uses it to spread viruses or other files that install automatically.
These are what I understand from reading the first 15 pages of the thread. I might have missed something, but so far this is my understanding. They might change once I read more, but so far at page 15 I'm wondering about all the stuff above and more.
So don't take any of the above as rock solid, it could change.
I'm upto page 15 of it and so far here is what is pissing me off about steam....
1) Everyone will have to switch over to steam to play regular half-life and its mods
2) when switching to steam you get a new id, this means all the cheaters and hackers and stuff also get new ids so all those once banned are not free to do what ever they want again
3) You will need to have steam running to play the games and need to start the games up through steam
4) If you don't want to switch over to steam you will be shit out of luck to play any valve games
5) You can't just leave steam off and download a patch off some server. You will need to leave it on to get auto updates (which could have viruses in them) I like to scan every file that comes onto my system before I use it.
6) If I need to reformat my drive, I will have to redownload the patch via steam. As it is now, I keep patchs on my drive and if I need to reformat I drop the patch on CD or another drive. With steam I won't be able to do that
7) It also sounds like they will be using my net connection to send stuff to other people. I have limited amount of bandwidth, I don't have enough to send to other people all the time while I'm playing games.
8) I don't care about no stupid buddy list. Give it a little time and I will get that same list in Trillian.
9) If a random key generator is made and someone gets my key that is on the box I buy before I buy it, then how the heck do I play the game even thou I have the actual legal version
10) There are already known hacks for Steam. What if someone hacks it and uses it to spread viruses or other files that install automatically.
These are what I understand from reading the first 15 pages of the thread. I might have missed something, but so far this is my understanding. They might change once I read more, but so far at page 15 I'm wondering about all the stuff above and more.
So don't take any of the above as rock solid, it could change.