Valve Unveils Long-Awaited Steam Improvements
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You know people us Steam for few others games than just Half-life series... I think majority of people use it for something else than Half-life.Fursnake said:
They must be a evil corporation, because they made something that made general experience with their product more pleasurable and therefor made large target audience happy.
Oh poor you for not getting your wishes trough... Oh well better luck next time.
Oh and btw, Steam developers and the game makers are separated teams; You are acting like someone who yells to the WoW gm's to get the Starcraft 2 ladder working again... Same building, wrong door...
FINALLY!....
during the summer sale downloading anything was torturous.
*click download*
"We currently can't handle that request. Try again later."
*10+ minutes of clicking the download button*
yay it started downloading!
*I realize it's going at 20-50KB/s*
WTF!......*slits own throat*
during the summer sale downloading anything was torturous.
*click download*
"We currently can't handle that request. Try again later."
*10+ minutes of clicking the download button*
yay it started downloading!
*I realize it's going at 20-50KB/s*
WTF!......*slits own throat*
If one of those long-awaited improvements isn't the addition of Half-Life 3 to the New Releases page, then who gives a shit.
About got damn time I say.
Seriously, it took them this long to let us download stuff while we play? That's just silly.
All the other stuff is awesome. And everything in there basically fixed all the issues I had with Steam. Now the only problems I have is being forced to run Steam to play games(pretty minor since Steam uses so little memory, but it's the principle of the thing that counts), and that some games force others to use Steam when they don't want to have anything to do with the service. Though I suppose the latter is the fault of the publisher that decides to use Steam. And I suppose it's better than whatever hilariously shitty DRM solution they would use otherwise...
Seriously, it took them this long to let us download stuff while we play? That's just silly.
All the other stuff is awesome. And everything in there basically fixed all the issues I had with Steam. Now the only problems I have is being forced to run Steam to play games(pretty minor since Steam uses so little memory, but it's the principle of the thing that counts), and that some games force others to use Steam when they don't want to have anything to do with the service. Though I suppose the latter is the fault of the publisher that decides to use Steam. And I suppose it's better than whatever hilariously shitty DRM solution they would use otherwise...
About time i think..
Recently i upgraded my internet line, from 5 mb to 25mb up and down..
Still i could not get my download speed on steam to go higher than 650k, i was hoping to download Portal 2 like in an hour, took almost 6 hours.. blah..
Recently i upgraded my internet line, from 5 mb to 25mb up and down..
Still i could not get my download speed on steam to go higher than 650k, i was hoping to download Portal 2 like in an hour, took almost 6 hours.. blah..
This is good news, lets hope it works eh? Its a pretty major set of changes so I hope they have done extensive testing.
Can they fix the play offline option too? Sometimes my internet goes down and for some odd reason you need to be connected to the internet to play offline. Go figure...
So........a patch then? Wow, that's new! *rolls eyes*Andy Chalk said:
On topic, never had a problem with Steam downloads here...but then I have a 50Mbps connection so... :-D Steam and Microsoft's web site are the only two places I've ever maxed out my connection (just over 4 megabytes per second). At good times, I can get an entire 5-7gig game off steam in about 20 minutes or less.
EDIT: If the HTTP thing is true, then YAAAAY! Finally can get steam to work at my workplace through the firewall.