most annoying thing about steam?

[Tharwen]

The reason it keeps pausing the downloads is that games will load (and sometimes run) much more slowly if the computer is writing all that data to the disk.

As for me, the thing I hate most about Steam is how slow it is (does anyone else find that it keeps freezing and taking ages to load pages?), and how it keeps giving me that 'only one instance of Steam can be running at a time' error.

 

[Watchmacallit]

THANK GOD! I'm not the only one!!!
Okay, heres my list.
1. You can't install a game in offline mode. Okay, fine. But then as soon as its installed an update starts and you can't play till its done!!!! AvP 1.2gig download and I was capped!!!!

2. A game doesn't install correctly. Fine, uninstall, reinstall. BUT NO. You can't just reinstall you have to download the whole damn game even thought its sitting on a disc. Currently I am trying to play TF2. I installed it and did a 4 gig download at an average of 40kb/s...It didn't work! Like wtf!!!


5. Games take forever to install.

1) well thats a personal problem rather than their problem.

2) actually none of the game is on the disk (common misconception). This just makes it easier for steam to protect their products. (yeah its a little annoying i guess, but as a web based
service understandable)

5) thats your computer im afraid. Nothing steam can do to absolve that.

1. They should make the installation of updates an option as is most often the case. The Play Station Network doesn't force you unless you want to play online multi-player. If I want to play single player where an update isn't needed why do I have to download the update?

2. The games are on the disc. Newer games are starting to only have Steam on the disc and you have to download the game. But games like MWF2, TF2, AvP etc are on the disc. Or it installed 12 gig of air when I put L4D2 in? I know that the new Dawn of War 2 expansion only had a steam installer on the disc, I'm not sure when that was implemented but for the games I have (Metro 2033, L4D2, MWF2, TF2 and AvP) they have all been disc installations.

5. My computer doesn't have an issue. Steam had "Downloads starting" for 45 minutes. It has issues. I also love when it takes 20 minutes to connect to my account. My computer can run any game on the market without an issue, with high graphics enabled. I also have an ADSL 2+ connection, just a bad area.

I liked Steam when I first got it. I love Valve's games and I think Steam is a great way to reduce copyright but after using it I've come to hate it. The only thing its good for is for sale and I just found out they raise the price in Aus when there is absolutely no need except to take more money.

I'm not being argumentative or aggressive, these are just facts. You should research before making claims about a program you clearly haven't been using for a while or another person's computer.

 

[Watchmacallit]

I get the same things happening. Sometimes my library doesn't load until I close and re-load Steam.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Just got Steam a few days ago, and so far no problems, but my complaint is that the genre selection feels limited to me. And I'm looking through the action, RPG and adventure sections. Makes me feel like I'm seeing at the same games no matter where I look.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

I can't get Deus Ex on it...

Dx

I want to play that game!

$5 from this link.... Steam charges double I think.

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/games/Deus-Ex--GotY/?authenticate=true&wa=wsignin1.0

Another mark against STEAM, they charge more.

snip

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points/8365-Experienced-Points-Games-for-Windows-FAIL

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=8059

Games for Xbox Live can go fuck itself with an uncomfortably large rusty pipe.

 

[TriggerOnly]

I have had A LOT OF PROBLEMS with steam

the old your game crashed at 99% oh on start again please (old school was a PAIN)

I've had lots but the one that I cant solve is some BS error I forget what it was but no playing css or any vale games coz of it.......


oh and some games get left behind and unless you get the hard copy it anit going to work

 

[GiantRaven]

I dislike the fact that you don't truly own the game.

 

[Cj Vanek]

That it won't let me play any demos,if i click to play a demo it takes me to the store page for that game instead of playing the demo

 

[Cowabungaa]

Mostly the whole euro-dollar thing. It's rather ridiculous that euro users pay a lot more than dollar users do.

Downloads sometimes are rather icky too, like they're stuck on Download Starting for a while. On the other hand, Steam often manages to drag another 200kb/s out of my connection, sometimes even more. My top download speed with Steam was 1.2 mb/s, when I download something directly from my browser it never goes above 850kb/s.

You need a credit card to play
*cries that I can't get Steam*

No you don't. [https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8360-wejc-2625]

I use ClickandBuy myself, it's a little too easy to use perhaps... I buy so much stuff from Steam, 14 games last Christmas sale.

I dislike the fact that you don't truly own the game.

You never do that, not with any piece of software you buy, digital or retail. You only buy the rights to use it, you never own it.

 

[NeoShai]

You can play while downloading. Alt Tab then pause and resume your download.

 

[micky]

steam support sucks, it takes them a week to respond to my question and all they do is tell me to contact someone else! and just getting to support was a pain

 

[mikecoulter]

The most annoying thing I find about Steam is the fact I can't display all of my games on my bedroom wall. I like boxes... :/

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

They don't have cards similar to iTunes cards.

1. I don't own a bank account
2. I doubt I could get one
3. It's very annoying to dig out the cards when you want to purchase a game.

 

[MysticToast]

Offline mode requires an internet connection.

If I may, as crass as it can be, I shall award myself a /thread.

Good day. *tips hat*

Not true. I've used Offline Mode plenty of times without an internet connection.

 

[malkavianmadman]

My only problem with steam (since i dont actually buy anything from steam nor play online games on steam) Is that if I dislike a steam game say civ 5, i cant resell the damn thing making it a complete waste of my hard earned cash

 

[MysticToast]

My only problem with steam (since i dont actually buy anything from steam nor play online games on steam) Is that if I dislike a steam game say civ 5, i cant resell the damn thing making it a complete waste of my hard earned cash

That's why you play a demo if you're not sure about a game. And yes, I checked, Civ V has a demo.

 

[loc978]

Most annoying thing about Steam? Unstable client that relies too heavily on flash video. Causes a lot of memory holes.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

O, captcha Jesus, what should I do?

use tegany

Gee, thanks!

The sales are what annoy me the most about Steam, because I then buy everything because it's cheap.

 

[LightningBanks]

The fact that games I buy full price generally go on sale 4 minutes later

and the fact that sales are so enticing. I spent £100 on games at christmas

well, what's your most annoying thing about steam? mine would be that you can't play games while downloading another game. I bought the hitman pack, and i'm itching to play my games, but it pauses the download every time. On a side note, can someone tell me why it does this?

I thnk it pauses games to stop it lagging when you play online games, incase you forgot you were downloading a game. Or maybe the steam cloud cant work properly without the download stopping. Still, this doesent explain why it does it to ALL games.

 

[warprincenataku]

I'm quite happy with Steam.

I was having issues logging in from time to time saying the operation was already running, but I learned if I just let it be it signed in fine. Maybe I was just too impatient.

I really love Steam with the Summer and Christmas sales. The weekly ones are fine, but rarely have anything I want.

Worst thing I had was I bought a game that the next day was 75% off.