there are a bunch of em scattered around the forums now, and in order to prevent them from being posted more then once, lets put them together. Here is mine that i found on www.adminmod.org and posted in some thread.
I think steam has just proven that we need a new word for bugs that all out prevent use of a program (if no such term exists, that is). "Fatal Fault" maybe. That way, the idiots who don't realize that page is a joke, won't go around confusing OS bugs with things of OIF disfunctionality.
There is ... bugs are problems, faults are deadly... ask any developer:) For instance, you don't die of a bug in California.. but if that fault wakes up and causes an earthquake... you have to watch yourself to make sure you ain't lost in the disastor that strikes...
Do you see this file in your steam/steam folder : "steamui_english.txt" ?
extract:
"Steam_SubscribeIntro1" "You're about to subscribe to:"
"Steam_SubscribeIntro2" "This will cost $9.95 per month.
Since it is your first time subscribing to a game,
we need to ask you for some additional information."
"Steam_SubscribeIntroProductName" "Valve Premier Pack"
"Steam_SubscribeUserInfo" "Please enter your first and last names, exactly as they
appear on your credit card."
"Steam_EmailAddress" "Email address"
"Steam_EmailAddressVerification" "(for purchase confirmation and receipt)"
"Steam_FirstName" "First Name"
"Steam_LastName" "Last Name"
"Steam_SubscribeCardInfo" "Choose a credit card type, and enter the card number
and expiration date."
"Steam_CreditCardType" "Credit card type"
"Steam_CreditCardNumber" "Credit card number"
"Steam_CreditCardExpiration" "Card expiration"
"Steam_SubscribeBillingInfo" "Enter your address as it appears on your credit card
billing statement."
"Steam_Address" "Address"
"Steam_City" "City"
"Steam_StateOrProvince" "State or Province"
"Steam_Country" "Country"
"Steam_PostCode" "Postal (or Zip) Code"
"Steam_CountryOfResidence" "I currently live in the country selected above"
"Steam_SubscribeReviewInfo" "If there are any errors below, click 'Back' to fix them.\nOtherwise, click 'Purchase' to complete the transaction."
"Steam_ProductCostLabel" "Cost"
"Steam_TaxLabel" "Estimated tax"
"Steam_TotalLabel" "Total"
"Steam_ProcessingSubscriptionInfo" "Processing your subscription.
This should take less than a minute."
:o
From my understanding this is whats going to happen....
You will be able to walk down to your local store, pick up half-life or half-life 2 or any other valve product install onto your computer, start up steam and then play half-life 1 or 2 or any other valve product for the next 5 years (or longer) without paying another cent to valve.
There will also be the steam subscription option. For 10 bucks a month you will be able to buy access to any and all of valves products via steam. But there will be a catch with these ones. You just can't subscribe for one month, download all of Valves products and then kill off the subscription and keep playing the products. And from what I understand even if you pay for 16 months and then at the end of that 16 months you are sick of paying for a subscription but want to keep playing the valve products you've downloaded you won't be able to. You will have to go out and buy the products in the store.
So for say $160 bucks (USD), you walk away with nothing. If you play half-life 2 for say 5 years (like I have played original half-life for) that will be $600 bucks (USD) you have spent out with nothing but memories and some files on a hard drive.
I paid $60 or $80 bucks (Canadian) for half-life. Thats it. I have not spent a penny more on that game. I could quit today and start playing a couple years from now and it still won't cost me any more.
I already shell out $50 bucks (Canadian) a month for my net connection, why would I want to spend another $15 bucks (Canadian) just to play one game.
Sure I suppose the 10 bucks for one month is good for testing to see if you like the game, but thats about it.
you know, this sounds sort of like evercrack. You pay 40 bux for the game (20 for any of the thousand expansions they have to it), then you procede to pay a monthly fee to actually PLAY the game. These guys are like marketing gods, cause they can easily take advantage of stupid people and their addiction to computer games.
lol, that's something I never thought of as a response ;-) Admittedly because when I replied last night I was tired and didn't read your post properly... Still interesting name for the game... heh.
netniV,Sep 17 2003, 01:55 AM Wrote:lol, that's something I never thought of as a response ;-) Admittedly because when I replied last night I was tired and didn't read your post properly... Still interesting name for the game... heh.
you've never heard everquest refered to as evercrack?
no, I hadn't ;-) And yes that comic is funny. I never play everquest, never have. A friend of mine has it, and she raves about it... that's about my limit of everquest interaction...
i should but they're probably flooded with emails about how to bash steam in their comics. There archives is like the history of gameing, of course they would do something steam related.