VALVe Steam System

Well the beta for this has ended .. now the official client is out, meaning WONid and the old way of playing half-life/cs/any-other-mod will be dead in two weeks when WON is deactivated ..

Meaning you have to play through this client . Personally, i think its a bad move cause this needs a stronger computer plus it takes alot of time to load, alot slower then the normal CS/HL Game ..

Comments ?

[Exodus]

sigh... why do they have to break things that aren't broken? lets hope they get enough complaints and scrap the idea.

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Right now, like in the beta shipping, valve's puny bandwidth allocation collapsed under the stress and no one can actully use it anyway .. Their Site is down and their program is broken .

7400 signs in the Anti-Steam Petition So far .. they just killed their #1 money making game . too bad :\

[Exodus]

sounds like they're having an ID-10T problem.

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[op3n_skill]

They've already scrapped some old/new ideas....
Why not scrap steam?

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They should. so far it showed the sings of failure in the beta .. and now its showing the same now that its public ..

i just hope they wont really close down WON like they said .

[cloudvii]

i think that the colapse will make valve make a good investigation through the whole working team to get the one who made that stupid idea

Hehe, yea, i bet someone will lose his job at VALVe pretty soon ..

[Raziel]

Bah, I bet valve will soon be renamed to ATi anyway.

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The Canucks Are going to buy them ?

or is it just a anger blowoff since nVidia cards work so poorly under HL2 ?

[cloudvii]

well if ati bought valve that could be very good or very bad (no betweens there)

Steam's site just went up again .. with new system requirements :

Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP
64 MB RAM
400 Mhz processor
1GB HD space (recommended)
Broadband Internet connection (recommended but not required)

Yay for some people i suppose ..

[cloudvii]

well that's ok but for the last line .

but the site will make good players collection again

They have also released a new installer, that includes CS1.6 and HL .. they should have done that long ago . starting to show some sense Valve ?

[op3n_skill]

Installer?!?!

Yay!!!

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Allright, now, after Steam has updated the platform and i got the cache files (either via a Torrent link for them or the Full installer) i can now finally play CS1.6 / Half-life on Steam . only took 2 days to install Valve, gj

[cloudvii]

may be that change means that the investigation i talked 'bout happened

[Carmofin]

my steam client is still downloading since yesterday...
im sick of this crap, i want to PLAY, i dont want to bother with hours of hours of information searching on why it doesnt work and what to do to change that...

if you used steaminstall.exe you're stuck .. Go to fileplant and grab steaminstall_cs.exe which includes the platform,steam,hl, and cs updates including CS1.6 needed to play .

[GSDragoon]

About 68 more minutes for file planet... BTW, does this include the final release for CS 1.6?

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