Winthrop said:
Try disabling wifi and setting the calendar forward 2 weeks. Usually around 2 weeks without reconnecting to steam it wipes your log in data and authentication. Generally doesn't affect people much, but I think that that is what this is about.
EDIT: Although some other posters indicate that they have now fixed the bug and that this article is based on old information.
In fact, that bug was not only a short-lived one but was fixed
months ago.
Why Steven Bogos is only
now writing about it is a fucking mystery. Especially as The Escapist reported on the bug, and subsequent fix, months ago.
My guess is, based on the wording in the article, it's just to stir up arguments.[footnote]What with the Xbone comments and all.[/footnote]
Magmarock said:
Valve got themselves into legal trouble in erop. but that aside no I don't think Vavle are in any distress and while there are worse digital distributes then Steam. Steam started and popularized this form of DRM and speaking as someone living outside the USA I can say that Steam isn't that kind to out of USA customers. They have a monopoly on digital distribution and it's not healthy.
Not really. And I really wish people would stop using "monopoly" so often. It's almost always used incorrectly and is starting to lose it's meaning.
A monopoly implies that a company has
sole control over an entire industry. That company, or conglomerate of companies, have complete control over pricing, distribution, etc.
What Valve has with Steam is anything but a monopoly. In fact, they rarely even determine the prices within their own service. (those are usually left to the publishers releasing their software on Steam)
The only reason some countries outside the US don't see many, if any, other DD services beyond Steam is because the owners of those other DD services aren't bothering to localize their services in those countries.
As for Half life 3 I think you didn't quite understand my comment, so I'll try wording it better.
HL3 I feel is in the same bucket as Duke Nukem forever was. It's been so long that there is nothing they could release that would live up to expectations. I'll be curious as to what HL3 will be like but I don't see myself loosing sleep over it.
Let's be fair here:
DNF was in development hell, and in that state for far longer than Half-Life 3 has been in active development. Further more, DNF didn't just "not live up to expectations". It was an absolute catastrophe. It was a half-assed job from start to finish, with Gearbox contributing almost nothing.
I can say with near certainty that Half-Life 3 won't be "half-assed".
Vavle can't really call themselves a games company any more
So Portal, Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Alien Swarm, Dota 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and all of the extra content that's been released for most of the above don't count?
I really have
never understood how anyone can say, "Valve doesn't make games anymore." Do people not realize they make games
outside the Half-Life series?
, and their consumers they lost from their broken offline system would've all stopped using steam in favor of more reliable offline services. GOG being one of them.
If they "abandoned" Steam because of the offline system[footnote]Which hasn't been broken for some time now.[/footnote], than that's their prerogative. It's their choice.
But don't be misleading by claiming GoG is "more reliable".
I and many others that I know or have talked to have had our fair share of issues with GOG.com. Problems with broken downloads. Broken, or lack of, updates and patches. Missing content. Etc, etc, etc.
