Steam Appreciation thread [Archive]

Darkside55

18-10-2007, 04:43 PM

I love steam.

A lot of people give it flak, for reasons I can't comprehend. Maybe they're just daft. Maybe they just enjoy complaining. But I love steam.

So, post about how great steam is. I suppose you can post your dislike of steam too, but you're going to be flamed furiously if you do. ;)

Xendance

18-10-2007, 04:45 PM

I've mixed feelings about Steam.

Nitre

18-10-2007, 04:49 PM

I hate Steam.

Just kidding :E

Love it really...discounts on games, log on from any pc with steam, community chat and loads more stuff. Its all good.

Pi Mu Rho

18-10-2007, 04:52 PM

Steam is the future. Trust me.

Hellrider

18-10-2007, 04:54 PM

Steam rocks so much.

Ravioli

18-10-2007, 04:54 PM

If i could i would pleasure it with my penis

Munro

18-10-2007, 05:18 PM

I love it, I just wish there was a few changes to the GUI and a few extra features then it would be near enough perfect.

Beerdude26

18-10-2007, 05:49 PM

I heart Steam this much: <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Dekstar

18-10-2007, 05:55 PM

I are luv stream cuz it givs me gaems.

I think any problems with steam are the users' end, tbh.

Crispy

18-10-2007, 06:02 PM

I love it, I just wish there was a few changes to the GUI and a few extra features then it would be near enough perfect.Agreed.

Steam Community is faaaaaar from perfect. I still don't understand how they still haven't implemented autoperform (so you can choose to automatically join chatrooms when Steam boots up) and how the event scheduler doesn't recognise Daylight Savings Time. It makes something that could be incredibly useful suddenly a source of confusion and more hassle than it's worth. Then there's not being able to switch your Steam groups from Private to Public (or vice versa); it's just lacking a lot of control on that side.

But it's early days. Hopefully with the OB out of the way Steam will get more attention.

Xendance

18-10-2007, 06:27 PM

I want Custom CSS :(

PimpinPenguin

18-10-2007, 06:29 PM

I used to really hate Steam but now i love it and it keeps getting better.

Samon

18-10-2007, 06:58 PM

I like Steam.

PaoloM

18-10-2007, 07:34 PM

Steam is a fair and unintrusive copy protection system.
It allowed me to save a lot of money on awesome games (-30% on italian retail version of the Orange Box).
The games are ready to download and play anywhere, anytime.
I surely love Steam.

Ridge

18-10-2007, 08:11 PM

Im writing a song about Steam to the tune of the Portal song...

Ennui

18-10-2007, 08:14 PM

Steam is now the shit. It did suck once upon a time, way before HL2's release, but that's just because it was buggy as hell. Now it's fine and it's the most important program on my PC.

Asus

18-10-2007, 08:22 PM

Even when it was beta and they launched CS 1.4 beta on it I thought it was pretty cool. And tracker too. But of course it was beta back then and so it had some prominent bugs.

AtomicSpark

18-10-2007, 09:25 PM

Steam is my Companion Cube [<3]. I use it to chat with my gaming buddies often. It's great for getting clan members together and playing some good ol' Team Fortress 2. Go HL2.net!

Narcolepsy

18-10-2007, 09:40 PM

I love Steam. It's like XFire on crack.

Then my internet goes out, and I HATE steam.

Asus

18-10-2007, 09:45 PM

Why do you hate steam if your net goes out?
/switches to offline mode to play EP2

Narcolepsy

18-10-2007, 09:58 PM

That didn't work last night - told me I couldn't run it in Offline Mode. And I was on the last chapter too.

Nitre

18-10-2007, 10:16 PM

That didn't work last night - told me I couldn't run it in Offline Mode. And I was on the last chapter too.

Oh the pain.

Asuka

18-10-2007, 10:49 PM

I love steam but its not a game ;) Should be changed to Valve or Valve stuff. Not Valve games.

CyberPitz

18-10-2007, 11:34 PM

Steam is awesome. Loved it from when I first downloaded it to get the new CS 1.6.

DigiQ8

18-10-2007, 11:49 PM

Steam is awesome. Loved it from when I first downloaded it to get the new CS 1.6.

but...;(

Crispy

19-10-2007, 01:14 AM

leib10

19-10-2007, 01:18 AM

Steam is one of the greatest innovations in gaming, ever. This is the forerunner of what might eventually replace CD's/DVD's being sold in retail stores.

CyberPitz

19-10-2007, 01:51 AM

but...;(

But WHHAAATT :(

Russian Mafia

19-10-2007, 02:54 AM

But WHHAAATT :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

Crispy

19-10-2007, 04:01 AM

That is the most worrying piece of YouTube I've ever seen. Please never share it with anyone again. ever.

Asus

19-10-2007, 04:03 AM

That didn't work last night - told me I couldn't run it in Offline Mode. And I was on the last chapter too.That sucks. I was going to play TF2 the other night but my ISP connection went out. So I just switched to offline mode, restarted steam, and played EP2 again. But I had steam on before the internet went out so Steam already verified my account. Not sure why it didn't work for you.

Operational

19-10-2007, 04:30 AM

Overall my experience with Steam has been very positive.

Stigmata

19-10-2007, 07:01 AM

I've loved Steam ever since it was released.

Narvi

19-10-2007, 07:48 AM

Oh and another thing; you should be able to choose whether to be notified of events on a 'per group' basis. There is this one group I joined called 'The Teamwork Movement' with something like 30,000 members and they were doing events every 10 minutes it seemed. After a few days it just became annoying so I was forced to leave the group, even though I thought it was a fairly decent cause to promote (getting like-minded team players together to enjoy games to their fullest).

You really should email Valve with your suggestions. Unless you have already?

That is the most worrying piece of YouTube I've ever seen. Please never share it with anyone again. ever.

See...

This is the Internet. The robots are not here to protect you.

Oh, and I like Steam, generally. I'm rather annoyed that I have to restart it whenever I install mods (instead of having a gnarly "refresh" function) but it's not like I install mods everyday.

Now I just need to find the button that turns off the Steam Community in-game. I don't very well need to know Paolo is playing Episode Two, thank you very much. I don't have it yet. You simply make me hate my friends. Damn you, Steam! :D

AtomicSpark

19-10-2007, 08:48 AM

Settings > In-game > Enable Steam Community In-Game

You can also just turn off the notifications under Friends.

Sloth

20-10-2007, 04:53 AM

Only thing that would top it off would be better support for Mods - I know that it is awesome compared to others out there, but I would love to be able to pre-load or download a mod over Steam when it comes out.

Letters

20-10-2007, 09:03 AM

If I had my way all games would be released on Steam. Even console games.

Lucid

20-10-2007, 01:40 PM

I like Steam for the game store and server browser, but that's it really.

Steam Community is utter shit and games seem to take way longer than they should to load.

Apocalypse89

20-10-2007, 03:13 PM

In addition to the fact that I've had very few problems with Steam(none of them major) since I got it early 2005 to DL the HL2 demo, I also like it because it's one of the the main reasons why Valve hasn't been bought out yet by some big-wig publishing company whose bosses care nothing about games but only the profit to be made off them.

Anything that takes greedy publishers out of the equation gets a plus from me.

Operational

20-10-2007, 04:26 PM

Steam Community is utter shit
Really? What don't you like about it?

I also like it because it's one of the the main reasons why Valve hasn't been bought out yet by some big-wig publishing company
Valve hasn't been bought because it's not for sale. Don't get me wrong I don't like greedy publishers spoiling games (Lucas Arts springs to mind :devil:) but Valve would be independent regardless of Steams existence.

Lucid

22-10-2007, 11:16 AM

Really? What don't you like about it?

Valve hasn't been bought because it's not for sale. Don't get me wrong I don't like greedy publishers spoiling games (Lucas Arts springs to mind :devil:) but Valve would be independent regardless of Steams existence.

It's pointless and a big memory hog.

It's only there for showing off your e-penis.
And it's already like Myspace and Youtube, I'm getting requests and friend invites from people I've never even heard of!

Group chats are even more pointless, nobody even really talks about anything... it's spam until somebody finds something intelligible to say.

Apocalypse89

22-10-2007, 01:33 PM

Valve hasn't been bought because it's not for sale. Don't get me wrong I don't like greedy publishers spoiling games (Lucas Arts springs to mind :devil:) but Valve would be independent regardless of Steams existence.

Although the direct reason for Valve's independence is the fact that they're a private company, they need to stay self-sufficient in order to maintain that independence. That's what Steam is for.

Operational

24-10-2007, 05:31 AM

It's pointless and a big memory hog.

It's only there for showing off your e-penis.
And it's already like Myspace and Youtube, I'm getting requests and friend invites from people I've never even heard of!

Group chats are even more pointless, nobody even really talks about anything... it's spam until somebody finds something intelligible to say.
Depends how you use it I suppose. My friend list is made up of actual friends who I want to play with, I use the Steam Community to find their games and chat in-between matches - it's great.

Although the direct reason for Valve's independence is the fact that they're a private company, they need to stay self-sufficient in order to maintain that independence. That's what Steam is for.
They deal with EA without it affecting their independence. Steam does help smaller developers stay independent but Valve is large enough so that they can't be pushed around by EA. A perfect example is Knights of the Old Republic, from what I understand when Bioware were making the first one they could basically tell LucasArts to get lost. When the second one was being made by Obsidian, a smaller developer, they were pushed around by LucasArts into releasing something that wasn't finished and the game suffered for it.

Crispy

24-10-2007, 10:28 AM

You really should email Valve with your suggestions. Unless you have already?Sent them an email, no response yet.

Kyorisu

24-10-2007, 02:24 PM

I hate steam because of crappy region locking on Valves own games.

"This game is not available in your region."

Thank god I found a way to get around that one or I'd be extremely pissed.

contentdog

13-12-2009, 07:08 PM

"steam is equal to or greater THAN the word"
"CHECK IT AGAIN"

Steam is probably the greatest thing i have ever found on the internet...steam support has never failed to fix any problems with my games...and almost every game on there is awesome...

I have 1, and ONLY 1 problem with steam, and its not really valves fault. my problem is...

Metacritic...they fail...epicly. They would be okish i guess but they obviously have never heard of "Friends". They always give co-op games terrible scores because the online co-op sucks. 3 words...skype or vent. You could even use in game chat if you REALLY wanted to...I recently bought borderlands on steam along with the DLC and it only got an 82 metascore...anyone who owns the game and has friends would agree that its closer to a 96-98.

/rant

barbarbarbarbar

13-12-2009, 09:06 PM

Lol , the official Valve suck up thread.Good show lads.

Acepilotf14

14-12-2009, 10:06 PM

Valve you're awesome.

I'm not being a suck-up or anything.

Can I get a poster signed by Gabe please?

15357

17-12-2009, 01:06 AM

I hate Steam, mainly because it makes me download stuff at 800kb/s instead of the 6 ~ 8mb/s I'm used to.

Lumikola

17-12-2009, 09:46 AM

My download speed is an average of about 100kb/s... So you aren't in a bad situation at all. Generally I like Steam as it makes playing and over all the installing of games easier.

15357

17-12-2009, 11:19 AM

The problem is, when you're used to god awesome download speeds, you begin to expect it. :p

StarBob

17-12-2009, 02:30 PM

Steam is basically one of the few saving graces of PC gaming. It didn't start download-direct games but it definitely perfected it. The use of a low impact client that manages games is the key. There are a few things that still need improving, but Steam is basically the only way I get PC games.

TwwIX

17-12-2009, 03:53 PM

I stopped purchasing retail copies of games when they discontinued putting them in cardboard boxes.
I loved those bulky yet artsy packages. My first ever purchase of a PC game was Half Life's GOTY Edition along with a copy of Jagged Alliance 2. I collected quite a few of them over the years and most of them are still in mint condition. I rarely buy retail games these days. The great thing about Steam is the constant deals that it offers and the collection of older and indie games it has. It's simple and easily accessible. Most of the other digital distribution clients out there are over bloated and buggy. I don't have to worry about Valve installing unnecessary and harmful crap on my computer. The fact that they're continuously expanding its features, such as social networking, makes it far superior than the alternatives.