Poll: My problem with Steam.

[Dutchie_Diatribe]

I like Steam.
I like the way all my games are run though the one program, I like that you can buy games through their built in store.
The only thing that bothers me about an otherwise fine program is the constant updates for it's games. Unlike some people I'm not blessed with a decent internet connection.
I pay $50(AU) for 3GB (I know it's insane) and I just cant afford to download much, at the moment I have 7 games that are unplayable until I download about 25GB of game files.
That would cost about $420.
Now I've payed for these games when I didn't have to. I could have downloaded them illegally but I didn't and how to I get rewarded for my non-thieving honesty? By getting to sit here and watch my unplayable games be paused indefinitely in my download list. I'm not saying that Steam should stop with the updates just make them optional or something or make it so i can play my games even when their updating.
So in conclusion
Should Valve change the way that Steam downloads updates?

 

[FlashHero]

It would be nice...E-Mail Steam Support for suggestions to add in future or something like that...they will say something like we can't help you but if they get enough e-mails about it over a long period of time they will do something eventually.

 

[Break]

Right click on game > properties > Updates tab > set "Automatic Updates" to "Hell No" > curse loudly because I'm sure I remember people complaining about the fact that it doesn't work for games that have already detected an update > return to square one.

Well, maybe it'll be helpful in future. You have my sympathies.

 

[Tharwen]

Yeah... you can't play them until they update. Do what Break says though, and you'll never have to update a (singleplayer) game again!

 

[SenseOfTumour]

If you have a friend who's with a company that isn't pretty much screwing you by the gig, then you could, go over, install your steam account, download everything, then copy the files onto discs, or an external HDD, then copy them back to your PC when you got home.

Also, to be fair, downloading them illegally seems like it would cost more than buying a boxed copy from a store also, tho I understand you at least wouldn't have paid STeam.