Has Steam ever screwed you over?
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Well other than servers sometimes being down (pretty rare for me, like around once every 3 months) nope. I like Steam because there are often chances to buy good games at hilariously low prices. For example right now:
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom - 2 dollars/euros
Thief: Deadly Shadows - 3 dollars/euros
And many more. This price cut has been going on for quite a few days and what's awesome is the fact that each day there are new awesome games at low prices.
I already bought Red Faction: Guerilla, Operation Flashpoint (which IMO is quite disappointing...), and L4D2. All for less than 9 euro.
Also there are weekend sales & stuff... When it comes to prices Steam is pretty awesome,
Although (while it never happened to me) it is probably pretty &%&*^@$*&^# when you buy a game at full price, and than a week later you find out that it's at "-80%" sale.
PS. Ok I just remembered one situation when steam kinda screwed me over. It was constantly re-downloading COD:MW2 (redownload/delete/redownload/delete and so on) like 4 weeks after I started playing it and I couldn't do anything about it. But it's not so much of a pain in the ass since MW2 is a rotten pile of crap.
And it kinda sucks that you have to go through a lot of trouble to install steam games out of the disc. Usually when you insert the disc steam STILL downloads the entire game even though all the necessary data are ON THE DISC. But it can be overwritten.
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom - 2 dollars/euros
Thief: Deadly Shadows - 3 dollars/euros
And many more. This price cut has been going on for quite a few days and what's awesome is the fact that each day there are new awesome games at low prices.
I already bought Red Faction: Guerilla, Operation Flashpoint (which IMO is quite disappointing...), and L4D2. All for less than 9 euro.
Also there are weekend sales & stuff... When it comes to prices Steam is pretty awesome,
Although (while it never happened to me) it is probably pretty &%&*^@$*&^# when you buy a game at full price, and than a week later you find out that it's at "-80%" sale.
PS. Ok I just remembered one situation when steam kinda screwed me over. It was constantly re-downloading COD:MW2 (redownload/delete/redownload/delete and so on) like 4 weeks after I started playing it and I couldn't do anything about it. But it's not so much of a pain in the ass since MW2 is a rotten pile of crap.
And it kinda sucks that you have to go through a lot of trouble to install steam games out of the disc. Usually when you insert the disc steam STILL downloads the entire game even though all the necessary data are ON THE DISC. But it can be overwritten.
Steam's been very good to my computers. Despite some little design choices that bug me, I've had no problems.
And with the store, I've never bought anything that wasn't on sale, except Portal. That I got in a store for $10. But Audiosurf, Guild Wars Trilogy, Braid, KotOR (which I really need to play), Lost Planet, Half-Life 2, Garry's Mod? All on sale, most $5 or less.
And with the store, I've never bought anything that wasn't on sale, except Portal. That I got in a store for $10. But Audiosurf, Guild Wars Trilogy, Braid, KotOR (which I really need to play), Lost Planet, Half-Life 2, Garry's Mod? All on sale, most $5 or less.
Not really. The only Steam related event that irks me is me buying Saints Row 2 for $7.50. "A great game for 8 bucks?" I thought, "There's no way this could suck." Little did I know that the Saints Row 2 pc port is a bag of dicks unsatisfactory. But that's more my fault than Steam's
Well, if you're okay with playing the campaign offline, you can temporarily disable your internet connection, which should let you start Steam in "offline mode," which should allow you to boot DoW2 whenever you want.reg42 said:
Not ideal, but better than nothing.
That happened me, but I don't blame steam on that. It's my fault for losing everything, if I could only remember one detail I could probably get it back.NLS said:
Really though, no, I've never been screwed by steam. I have days that I buy games on steam. Those are wednesday and weekends, because those are when the special deals go on.
Eg. "Hmm.. I could buy dawn of war 2... or I can wait til tomorrow and see if it goes on sale".
yeah exactly. it states when the sale ends as its special sales till the 4thFactualSquirrel said:
anyways yeahh i've been screwed once when i bought tropico 3 before a deal..coulda saved 10 bucks, ah well.
i wish they would let you know ahead of time when they might have deals coming out..it'd be much more helpful to me.
The fact that European L4D2 servers have been crapping themselves since the DLC was released.
The new CS:S update.
AND finally the multiple times I've had to re-install steam and my games because something somewhere stopped working when it shouldn't.
The new CS:S update.
AND finally the multiple times I've had to re-install steam and my games because something somewhere stopped working when it shouldn't.
To be fair, that's just hilariously (and by hilarious I mean infuriating) bad timing. And I should know as I've done the same on numerous occasions. Most recently when buying Hearts of Iron 3 2 days before a huge price dip. But that's how it goes. The game was obviously worth the money I paid or I wouldn't have bought it.SimuLord said:
But as for the current sales: there is a huge timer on the front page. Learn it. Love it.
Over half of the things I've paid for don't work, so yeah, I'd say I've been screwed over. I can't return the games that don't work, which is what keeps me from dishing out cash.
Valve did return my money when I had bought Darkest of Days though. In case noone knows, when it was released on Steam in Europe they took it back without notifying their customers after 3 days. First the wait was set to 3 months before we were allowed to finish playing what we paid for, then a year.
Valve did return my money when I had bought Darkest of Days though. In case noone knows, when it was released on Steam in Europe they took it back without notifying their customers after 3 days. First the wait was set to 3 months before we were allowed to finish playing what we paid for, then a year.
well, other than the odd server problem, it has not, but those server problems can be VERY annoying. It's my game and I should be able to play it when I want, dammit.
