Why Steam sucks badly:
- They could add some more information in their FAQ. What rights do I have, as customer? Can I play the game offline?
- Does downloading some stuff really need 30-90% of my CPU?
- Do I have to ask for permission everytime I wanna play? (Reminds me of the lowest difficulty level in Doom 1: Mommy, can I play?)
- The security update each time I connect to a server takes 20s (at least).
Alternatives to Steam
Urban Terror
Thanks guys for this awesome mod. Only one drawback for me: It’s not that realistic, the action is too fast-paced (yeah, Quake 3 style). Players jump around all the time to avoid bullets. But it’s far better than waiting for steam.
If you have alternatives to steam, please post them.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 4:14 am
I bought a copy of lost planet when it first released. looked like a cool game,but was unaware of the total bullshit steam really was since it was fairly new then. Like everyone else,I went through the same excrutiating pains of a 6 hour install process just to play what turned out to be a medoicre game at best. Needless to say I waas not impressed. In fact I can’t believe that this shitty service is still in existance. While I completely agree with all the people here about everything that totally sucks about this service, (especially the more obscene posts that seem to acurately capture peoples frustration), I came to this conclusion immediatly:
I will never buy another pc game that uses steam ever again! No matter how good it is said to be by anyone anywhere ever! This is the only way to protect my sanity and my money. No game will ever be worth the hassle that steam is, and all those who say otherwise are indeed the biggest direlect humans on the planet!
Furthermore, someone with “skills” should find a way to make threads like these into some kind of virus that, when sent to all steam/valve employees and management, will infect their computers to display posts from people so intensely aggravated by their service and how people truly feel about steam.
Might make some headlines!!
September 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Ive been with steam for 5 years ive had a few problems but nothing MAJOR but a week ago i bought saints row 2 i was really exited and couldent wait to get on it so installed it then it started updating for 7 hours, i had to switch steam of because it was taing up shitloads of my power from me
so a week later i restart steam thinkingthat saints row 2 should be done and quess what? it sais installing upodating hours reaming 12 im really pissed at the moment
dont install of steam theyve really fucked themselvs up.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I bought FEAR 2 BOX version and I still had to fucking install this SHIT Steam. It took like A FUCKING HOUR TO UPDATE STEAM / GAME, ETC. (I’d prefer to CHOOSE where I get my fucking game patch because STEAM IS SLOW AS SHIT.).
I had to wipe my system for another reason and now I am forced to reinstall this piece of shit Steam again so I can play FEAR 2.
More time wasted!! I’d like to fucking annihilate every FUCK associated with this DIPSHIT product STEAM.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Well, two days ago (yes, two) I bought Left 4 Dead. So I put in the CD, went through all the shit, and walked away for for about a half an hour.
1 percent.
So, I came to (angry) the conclusion that it was going to take a while- a LONG while- so I let it download at night. Two days later- it’s at 50%. So I left it alone for a long time, and it says that Left 4 Dead is updating. It was a 0%.
WHAT THE FUCK.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Hey folks, I’ve got a little lengthy of a post here, but you might like what I say. So check it out…
I bought ArmA II from Steam, because Direct2Drive wouldn’t accept my payment (sons of bitches). I’d forgotten that Steam was one of those control freak programs that wants to be your nanny. ArmA II is NOT a Valve game, so I hope and pray I can play it standalone. Well, that is, after it finishes downloading! Welcome to day III! :-/
I’m starting to wonder if Steam downloads take so long because it’s having to modify the executable as packets stream in. And I mean modifying the executable to make it dependent on the Steam client (which is pretty stupid if so). Maybe someone with more Steam experience knows. This is the first time I’ve touched Steam in years; about 7-8yrs I think. I’ve explored the Steam folder, and found that it’s putting ArmA II in “steamapps”. And it also has A-II files in other places, probably dependencies to choke it up. It’s already placed an icon on my desktop, and the path leads to, you guessed it, the Steam client… So things aren’t looking good for me. I payed over $50 for this game, and quite frankly, Valve Corporation doesn’t have the right to dictate when and how I enjoy it (neither legally nor morally). Bohemia Interactive technically does, being the developers, but they deployed their software standalone; without the need of some stupid spy/client software. I’m a pretty affluent guy, and $50 is really no sweat to me… but it’s the principle here… I pay money to enjoy a game, and this “middle-man” is going to ruin it for me? Not a chance in hell! If this game can’t run without Steam, action is inevitable!
So what am I talking about? You may already know, but there is an ongoing legal debate about the rights developers and 3rd party distributors have who deploy and market software. I myself am a developer, so I’ve followed the news closely. In case you’re wondering, I am a Windows/.NET dev, web developer, and a game developer. I am the owner and CEO of a independent development LLC (limited liability corporation). Unfortunately, for the content of the post, I can’t say who I am or the name of my company. But let me continue… The controversy is ‘what does the end user actually pay for?’. Are you paying for the physical software and the right to use it as you please (or even resell it to someone)? Or are you simply paying for a limited ‘license’, which is basically like a timeshare/rental as long as you follow the rules? <- This is a big deal, and the outcome of these legal debates will set the precedent for the entire industry!
As of now, a 3rd party distributor, such as Steam when they sell another company’s game, has absolutely NO right to apply additional stipulations/contracts/limitations to your software usage. Only the original developer does. In the case of Valve’s own games, they can (because they hold the IP rights to the software). But what about that ‘click-wrap’ EULA you allegedly signed away your rights on by installing Steam? It’s worthless for non-Valve games… I don’t know of any jurisdiction which upholds a ‘click-wrap’ EULA in courts (that’s an ‘end user license agreement’ contract you supposedly agree to by clicking a button or installing the software). You don’t actually sign anything, which means your ‘digital agreement’ can be faked/spoofed/fabricated. They would be hard pressed to prove you really agreed to anything or even read the terms. It’s basically a scare tactic, used to keep you under control.
So what does this mean for us? It means that if we’ve purchased a game through Steam, which is NOT owned by Valve Corporation, we have the right to do whatever we want with it (per the original developer’s terms)! That means that if a certain someone made patches/cracks to run their non-Valve games without Steam, they can’t do a damn thing about it! Now who on earth knows how to do all that stuff? Geee, I dunno…. Hmmm…
Maybe a guy next door or something. Let’s just hope Steam doesn’t ruin his game experience, or he will feel obligated to free the world from Steam’s filthy grasp! Heheh…
But there’s another thing here. I’m talking class action lawsuit. So you don’t have the money to take on Valve alone? Well, that’s not a problem. Do you know how many people have been ripped off by Steam? Even just in this article? If such people pooled their resources and formed a class action suit against Valve for infringing on their end user rights, there’s little they could do! They don’t have right and title to other developers’ software which they are trying to assert control over. So the point I’m trying to make here is that they are not invincible, and there are several ways to beat them. And they truly don’t have a right to come between you and software owned and developed by other companies; which YOU purchased and have the right to use as YOU like.
I can make one promise to you today: After learning about the terrible things Valve has done to people, I will NEVER deploy ANY of our products through Steam…
October 9th, 2009 at 9:43 am
I am waiting 2 hours for the update on my empire total war. I just wanted to play some game and release my stress. I am more stressful than ever before. I will never buy any game that has to do with steam.
To steam: Please forgive me for the following comments. You are gonna go bankrupt, you cocksuckers. If you don’t listen to your customers, who the fuck is gonna buy your game. hmmm. fuck you you piece of fucking shit steam. that helped a little
October 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I’ve been using Steam since HL2 was released (2004). I only had problems that very day, like many others. Ever since everything has worked great, my downloads are very fast and I’ve had no issues. I like the client and use it to talk to my friends. I also use D2D and really dislike having to buy a disc now.
I know this doesn’t fit the theme of this post, but there are a lot of happy customers .
Also to “Savage”, even if you avoid Steam or any other digital distribution. Learn this…you don’t own the vast majority of your software. You aren’t allowed to use it as you see fit. This is why an open source movement exists. You bought a box, you bought a license to use that software as they see fit.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I’m pulling my fucking hair out over this steaming great pile of horse poo that is STEAM, It takes me no fucking joke almost a whole fucking hour just for me to see my games list!!! Takes me back to the enormous load times for the commodore 64 seems like Steam hasn’t really capitalized on the latest technology, stupid fuckers!!
I don’t know why I bother with it, I’m gonna wipe my ass on a fuck you note demanding my money back for the games I was stupid enough to buy through steam and then buy them from a shop where if there is a problem I can chin the fucker who sold it to me.
Wouldn’t be so bad if Steam actually supported their stupid fucking software, (getting a response a week later telling you to delete your Steam files does not constitute support in my book).
And all you fuckers out there who ‘haven’t had any problems’ good for you and fuck off!! Either add something constructive if your world is so perfect or let the sadies have the opportunity to piss and moan about it and fuck off and play your stupid steam games you fucking Steam hugging and kissing dipshits.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
A while back, I bought Empire: Total War at Best Buy and was excited as hell to play it. But then all of a sudden I have to download Steam or else the game won’t work. What the fuck? I bought the game, what the hell else do I need to do? Well, turns out that without Steam, you can’t get some of the files necessary to play the game.
Man, that fuck shit. I don’t need permission from some piece of shit system I won’t ever use to play my goddamn games.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Just about yesterday i was walking along my street minding my own business, when some breadroll behind a store glass locked my eyes on it.
i mean.. damn! it was like love from first sight.
I reached for my wallet and bought it.
When i got back home i gentelly took it out of my backpack and just when i wanted to bite on it i have noticed small sheet of paper glued on bottom that said that i can’t eat it until i cut it in half and spread some shit all over it.
What the hell?
I like breadrolls like they are!
Who can tell me what do i have to eat it with?
I just bought that damn breadroll and i want to eat it my way, even if this shit i have to spread over it is free.
Do i have a choice of how do i want to eat it and when?
I am fucking allergic to shit and i do not want it on my breadroll!
Soo.. am i allowed to do anything i can to eat it my way, since i have paid for it?
If so, i think i can download from some P2P network small sheet of paper that i glue on my breadroll in the place where the previous paper scrap was and just eat it.
Don’t i?
Transferring it to games with steam..
If i crack the game i have paid for.. i will be the bad guy.. why is that?
October 27th, 2009 at 1:48 am
My storys the same as alot of peoples. Went out, bought Empire total war, thought “Yay! I finally get to play it.”
Well, its about 14 hours since i bought it and i aint fuckin played it yet. Steam, im sorry to say, has fucked me like a bitch.
Install steam… ok, fine, only half an hour of waiting before its finally installed its precious little system components, then another half an hour while it updates itself. Now i can install my game, right?
Wrong! I need a steam account. Fine, fine, ok. There, ive got one, can i install it now? I can? Great! 45 minutes later… “What do you mean not fucking responding?”
A restart and an hour later: “Ooh, nearly done! Wait… no… god no… JUST FUCKING RESPOND, PISSFLAPS!”
Another restart, another hour… its installed! Well, it was a lang hard treck but im sure itll be worth it. Lets do some warmongering! Launch my game!
Ok, you want to download some updates? Fine, fine, do whatever the fuck you want. Ill just wait for ten minutes… twenty minutes… half an hour… hang on, im on pay as you fucking go internet here!
Before i started i had £25 on here, now i have… £19. So, youve cost me an extra £6 on top of the £35 i already paid for the fucking game, and installed 3% of the updates. You know what? Fuck off. Im just taking you back to the shop. Wait, no, i cant because ive registered the fucking serial number (that should have been enough security for them really) to a steam account i didnt want, that ate up and shat out half of my day off as well as a chunk of my internet credit.
Well steam, im going to carry on trying purely so i havent wasted over £40 on a game that im sure would be very good, if it was actually playable.
Words cant express just how pissed off i am at steam right now. But actions can, so just imagine a guy with a sledgehammer beating the living fucking shit out of the people who invented this useless piece of shit program, and the stupid fucking wankers who said “Yeah, i dont see a problem with putting that on our new games!”
Seriously. If steam were a person, id choke them on my shit, then ram their fucking updates down their throat until their fucking stomach burst. Then sue them for mental anguish.
Nice one steam. Youve managed to turn buying a game from a fun and exciting experience into a fucking nightmare. God knows whats going to happen when the updates are installed, im sure itll decide my keyboard needs registering or something.
November 1st, 2009 at 5:08 am
As an avid gamer, who has played games for more than fifteen years, I am frustrated and angry at the crap that is STEAM (and the greedy bastards at Vavle who created it!) Why the hell does a game made by Relic (Dawn of War II) or FEAR 2 (Made by Monolith), and totally not affiliated with Valve require steam to even install the game, much less play it and CONSTANTLY log on for updates? Somebody is making money (Probably valve) at the expense of our suffering. Even as I write this, trying to play a game that worked fine yesterday, Steam wont let me play it until it is updated, and yet the assholes at Valve dont even have enough servers. (I am told the servers are too busy and to try again later! WTF? How bout you give me my money back and try to get it back later assholes - the game is in my hand!)
I kid you not - I bought Dawn of War II and couldn’t play it because not only would Steam not install correctly (yet I download it and it installs fine), but I couldnt even register the damn CD-Key after I work for hours trying to install DOW2 (which wont install until you install steam….for some ass backwards logic) Like everyone, I had and have to constantly update my games, even though all Ive done is play them offline. As I write this, A game that worked yesterday wont work today because steam needs me to relog on and download ANOTHER unneccesary update for FEAR2, a game Ive beaten and found no problems with.
Also why force people to patch? Maybe when you have to play online for compatability, yes I can tolerate that. But for offline play? I JUST PLAYED IT YESTERDAY! I DONT NEED THE UPDATE! and of course the option of an offline patch installer that would simply and comprehensivly install all the previous updates isnt made. So should my computer crash, or I uninstall the game and delete all files so as not to have possible reinstall/patching conflicts due to orphaned files. I have to go thru this TEDIOUS, OVERLY LONG PROCESS of installing, downloading content, then downloading the content that should be correct in the first place!
And to add insult to injury - THE GREEDY BASTARDS AT VALVE (whom i once held respect for (Half-Life 1 didnt need steam and was great) didn’t buy enough servers to support their bandwith so for TWO DAYS of holding DOW2 in my hand, I could not connect to steam… to play a game that never did or should require steam in the first place.
This is step one of making things cheaper for them (no boxes, printed manuals, jewel cases etc = less production costs) at our expense. Also I guaruntee that STEAM uses our data for consumer recording - similar to companies selling our information to third parties only to advertise. we have to endure steams timely advertisements just to play a game that is made by a completely different company. I for one, like to have something in my hand (like a game, game box, manual and reciept) so I can prove I bought it should a computer crash and I wouldnt have to wait forever to re-download the files I already had. ISNT THAT THE POINT OF THE CD/DVD Disc? It used to be. I am tired of having to authenticate and constantly prove to Valve that I have a game here which i just paid fifty damn dollars for but cant run.
Call me old skool, but I liked the days when I came home with a disc, and within 5-10 minutes for installation, could be playing that very same game. Starting it up, didnt slave the system resources by running a third party program like steam in the backround (Remember the good days when we were told to shut down backround programs to improve performance? Once again, ass-backwards logic to have to run more programs just to get the one I want to play). And to be preemptive of bugs or graphical compatability - you could go to the companies website and download a patch to update the game from v1.0 to v1.6 or whatever. (NEVERWINTER NIGHTS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE - THANK YOU BIOWARE FOR NOT BEING CORPORATE AND EVIL LIKE VALVE! SCREW YOU GABE NEWELL!) I just bought and played Mass Effect and Neverwinter nights 2 (gasp) without steam! It runs great and the patches are all available online. I still have a disc full of the most recent patches for my older games Like DOOM 3, Half-Life 1, Deus Ex, Freespace 2, Neverwinter Nights, and they run better on my brand new alienware system even though they werent designed when dual core processors and Windows Vista was around. Another great game - Fallout 3! THANK YOU BETHESDA! Not only did they make the game without needing steam or downloading content, but they released the downloadable content packs both online and on disc! They included the required patches on the disc! Novel Ideas! I have had nothing but problems and dissatisfaction with Steam. I refuse to buy any Half-Life 2 episodes, any Valve games (Like Left for Dead) because of bull-sh*% like steam. If I had noticed the intentionally made- tiny logo of Steam on my Dawn of War II or FEAR2 games, I would not have bought them, at least for fifty dollars. I try not to spend money on absolute crap that doesnt work, or is more hassle than its worth.
My Advice - Screw STEAM! Dont support them or Valve in any way. Apparently Valve lost their ’small town/small company grass roots’ and the people that bought their games and put them where they are today. Until a steam game is twenty bucks or less, spend your money on quality products that dont cause frustration - but rather cause fun. Fallout 3, Mass Effect, and Supreme Commander are all awesome games, well worth fifty bucks, but you can get them all for probably 20$ on Ebay, Amazon, or even retail stores like Best Buy.
AND LOOK AT THE FINE PRINT AND TINY LOGOS FOR STEAM - I would have NEVER guessed that Relic (makers of the great Homeworld, and Dawn of War series) or Monolith (FEAR series, and classics like Shogo:Mobile Armor Combat (for you older gamers like me) would have sold out for a few extra bucks from assholes at valve. Shame on you Monolith and THQ/Relic…selling out your loyal fans for a few extra bucks. Well rest assured, I am going to think twice before picking up a good game like DOW2 or FEAR2 when it is encased in an impenetrable shield of garbage like STEAM. I suggest you do the same. So Join me in the boycott (and buy the games cheap, in store (so the company makes less money they DONT deserve.)
Ryan (Avid Gamer)
(Gaming since Dark Forces, 320 x 240 resolutions, and good ol IBM 386-33mhz processors)
November 1st, 2009 at 9:18 am
That’s what i decided to do.
But i go one step further.
I will not buy ANY game that bases on steam at all.
There’s a lot of games in market. Enough to stay entertained most of a time.
Maybe i will lose something by not seing some awesome games, but i am sure i will avoid being frustrated when again with game in my hand i cannot play becuse lack of servers or temporary lack of internet (i am not a fuckin satelite and being near my comp doesn’t instantly make it online).
Shouldn’t there be an option, to play game totally offline if servers ale low or you are just not lucky enough to have fast internet connection and I DECIDE TO PLAY MY OWN GAME I HAVE PAID FOR without updates i don’t need?
KRN (anxious gamer)
(Gaming since 1-st generation console games like PONG way before C=64)
November 4th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Its insane that you have to log into steam every time to play a game that you payed for.
Not only that the connections to steam are ridiculously slow it takes a long time to just log into.
And to top it steam is a resource hog. I made the mistake of buying the orange box, it took me 2 days before I could play any of the games because the updates were gigs in size.
Steam is pathetic its ridiculous and I hate using it.
I told everyone I know not to buy anything from steam or that uses steam and they told there friends.
Question what will happen if steam goes bankrupt and all there servers and services gets taken down one day? Then all of your games you bought thru them will be useless and you will have no way of playing anything.
Thanks steam for nothing!
November 10th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Just bought COD Modern Warfare 2, really wanted to play, got home from work fired the DVD
in the PC and WTF..Steam?!?!? I knew the game needed a Internet connection to play but not this
crap. I stopped using steam over a year ago becasue it was a pain in the arse to connect to.
Still cannot connect even with a new account and all the shit they tell you to do to your router
etc. I just want to play the fucking game!! Going to return the game, man this sucks arse…hardout!
I foolishly paid $110NZD for a game I have to ask to play and even then I cant.
Steam can eat cock!!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
My story with steam begins on…
2008, May 9 .
It is upon this day that my friend gloriously decides to gift me TF 2, then freshly out of the whole medic patch business with 8 medics per team running around for their achievements.
The game was somewhat new at the time, people were dumbfucks, had no idea how to play properly, so you could get easy kills all around. It was fun, but some of steam’s shitty dealings also struck in. Alas, I looked past it and kept playing…
Some time this year, a friend of mine was like , “awww man I wish you had HL 2 so we could do synergy together!” (Synergy is a crappy mod that lets a bunch of loud spammy dipshits join you in your playthrough of Half life 2. BAsically 6 or 12 idk people can beat the storyline.somewhat bugged, pretty retarded).
So I said, okay, sure, let’s look at how I can get Half life 2 (I didN’t know at the time…).
What happened was I called a favor in on a friend who bought me the ORANGE BOX.
Now, the ORANGE BOX contains : PORTAL, HL 2, TF 2. I previously pirated Portal and enjoyed it.
So I was like “oh hey, awesome, free tf 2 !” I promised my copy to a friend..only to be met with a realization. It didn’t show up under my “Giftable” games…at all.
Contacting fail..sorry, I mean STEAM support, they nonchalantly gave me a reply 2-3 days later saying games are not transferrable between accounts.
That is incorrect and any fucking idiot will tell you that - they just want that ten dollars so much, it’s disgusting.
Without even THINKING of ways to debunk that : Go into store, buy, receipt \ code.
In this case, I got an “activation” code which I had to enter where?SURPRISE - STEAM.
So yes, I do have the fucking right and you do have the fucking means to gift my DOUBLE TF 2 to my friend you stupid , dumb piece of shits!.
Just recently, I was in chicago for 3 weeks. One of the few times of my life <3.
I was given a laptop, a mid-gaming one (KOTOR 2 ran fine, maple story refused to start, flash kileld it etc etc), so I didn’t bother littering it with STEAM. I was offline for 4 weeks (1 week prior to my leave to get ready. papers, packing, yadda yadda).
Now, when I got back, I noticed my password was changed, yet I received no email at all about it, as is customary when your password is changed by some script kiddie. (And I’m not stupid enough to follow scam links kthx).
I contacted FAIL support again, only to be told “okay, here’s your new password. And behave, we get a lot of complaints about you” …
….
….uhhh, okay, let me outline why that is totally retarded and irrelevant.
Their own bleeding EULA states that they cannot, and will not do shit, ever. If VAC Doesn’t ban you, nobody will, it’s that simple (The idea being that if you cheat, VAC bans you. If you are a douche, server owners ban you). So steam support threatened to remove my account…which is hilarious for 2 other reasons :
1)At that time, ANYONE could report ANYONE. Today, you can give a “reason” for reporting people, a small “chat box” like panel on which to send your whine. And steam users are whiny as fuck (Referring to the forumgoing fail faggots, not you people). So back then, you just clicked a button on a profile, “report user”, and you were done!
2) My password has changed three or four times without my consent or knowledge - and I didn’t get an email about it either. My email has not been compromised (last 5 logins only show my IP - this is gmail btw, pretty professional). What this means is some douchebag was on my account (Friends can confirm this) and doing whatever he was doing.
So not only are they breaking their own rules to false-threaten me for something that isn’t my fault, but they don’t even really have an accurate way of telling what happened.
Someone needs to DDOS Valve \steam servers on L4fail2 launch day. Imagine the rage. imagine the baww and QQ. Ah, how I yearn…
November 10th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
WHY ACTIVISION WHY?
OK, Treyarch made the greatest screw up with COD5 World At War.
Only fucking $1500 PC’s could play it decently. But that’s not the point here.
Thinking InfinityWard wouldn’t screw up, with good mood I looked forward to COD6 Modern Warfare2.
First they decide to end the era of dedicated servers. Well, minor bump.
Next thing turns out they use STEAM.
I bought it anyway, thinking it couldn’t be that bad. Well it is.
At the moment the fucking third attempt at installing MW2.
First attempt: STEAM was installing updates. Decided to stall at 51%.
Second attempt: STEAM is a fucking retard, not the detecting the DVD in the drive from which I even installed it. Tries to download the awesome 11GB at 101kb/sec WHILE the DVD is in the f-ing drive…
Third attempt: Start the DVD setup, I select reinstall and it seems to be copying the data from the DVD now.
Now I LOL’d when I saw the minimum system requirements were 512mb RAM.
Last time I ran STEAM, it ate 100mb starting the app. I don’t think they considered that, did they?
Oh I see it’s nearly done with the first DVD. Let’s hope it doesn’t crash when I put in the second one.
Kill the guy from Activision who decided to go STEAM.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Thanks for letting me know that modern warfare 2 is using that shitty steam program I wanted to buy it but I will not now.
Fuck you steam!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Not only did Activision completely suck ass when they decided to pussify the PC version by making it more or less a straight port of the console version, they stuck their collective dick in the pooch’s ass when they went with Steam… Greedy fucktards.
November 15th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
It took several hours to install modern warfare 2 using steam. And when it was finished the server of fucking hell overpaid dudes from another planet have come to an konklusion, that the server cannot start the game. The servers are currently to busy to handle my request. And my steam account has expired, BUT i created it yesterday. So this is real BULLSHIT:).
November 16th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Well I downloaded the l4d2 demo using steam. It only took about 9 hours, spread over a day with an average speed of 100kbs/s. The game is supposed to be 1.6 GB, but steamshit downloaded about 2 GB of data. I used my friend’s steam account to download and play the game, and now that I try to create another account from this computer, stinkingsteam says that I will not be able to play the game and must download it all over again. I was so looking forward to Modern Warfare 2 and that has gone stinking steam way. I am not going to mess around with stinking steam anymore and will try to get MW2 pirated. Years ago, I stopped playing Half Life because of stinking steam and the damn thing is spreading, not dying out.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Steam is a bitch! I bought MW2 and I tried twenty fucking times to install it. Finnally! It installs. I launch the game. Steam is loading your game…….Nothing WHAT THE FUCK. Then i think, why not get some rounds on Multiplayer. Multiplayer comes up and it seems all good. I press play multiplayer on the menu and the game crashes. Note, i hacked the fuck out of my first account so, so i reinstalled steam completely so i could play this fucking game.
Feel free to email me, if you can help me or just wanna bitch about Activition! trust me i do 2. Fuck steam, fuck MW2. Im gonna get this to work. Im to deturmined. I also found a torrent that will install the game without steam but i dont think you can do mp. Sorry guys, I dont have a link. Fuck steam with a firey burning passion… in the ass.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
hahha i got it to work! steam aint bad lol call me an ass idc cause i can play cod now. I just had ti rub as an admin and launch the game! Yes activision is stuupid for selling out… do i care? Fuck no. cause i got cod!
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 am
Same story here, STEAM/Valve needs to die slowly or fast, i dont care, if anyone wants to get together and plan a ddos attack, i am game, or deface their website, whatever, they are going to pay either way i look at it…
November 24th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Hey guys, I ended the single player campaign of MW2 today. I started playing yesterday and quit after two hours (had to go for some drinks with the boys), I played 4 hours today and finished the game. One guy over here has finished it in 3 hours flat. I am a bit disappointed with the short single player story, and just want to tell you guys that it simply is not worth paying a whole lot of money for so short a campaign. The game is OK, but the developers have not really put in a major effort in making. Don’t buy MW2 at the current prices, it is not worth it.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Steam fuckin sucks!! lost connection to host! whats new… cant even join a map i want to play its fucking retarted! its always random and sometimes u play the same stupid map twice (wasteland).. the maps are already old! they should of redone a crossfire version dumbasses. lag is horriffic, get your shit together steam your shit sucks!
December 7th, 2009 at 12:06 am
agreed,
I didn’t mind steam until last week-end. I bought games during the black week-end specials. I trried using my credit cards, but the system didn’t seem to work, so I used my paypal account, which I’ve used once every 6 months or so. The paypal system decided that my last transaction needed to be verified and investigated. They stopped the money transfer.
I reacted right away and gave them all answers they needed. But for some reason, they never released the money after they approoved my account.
Flash forward 5 days later, I try to log on my steam account to finally play games I paid for but only had time to download before my work week started, only to find my steam account disabled.
Here’s the thing: They disabled access to 30 games I’ve LEGALLY paid for since HL2, without sending a single message warning me that my account was being disable. It`s been 48 hours and still waiting for my account to be activated. They even answered me once telling me that the issue with paypal needed to be resolve.
Sure, I agree, for the game that was disputed, but I really don’t see how I could like a system like steam that can potentially render all games I own legally and I’ve paid for unsable on a whim of some obscur technician or clerk. ALl of this, without a single email.
I’ve always favored boxed product, this was the first time, last week-end,I was buying Digital product, and it’s the last. Pisses me off, I’m an honest gamer, I pay for all of the games I’ve played since I started to work and can afford it,whih means almost 10 years now.I Know a lot of people pirating games and I know that they also do it with steam games. So, they don’t need to be worry, only legit users needs to be worry.
So yeah, I’ve use steam for many years, but just found out why it’s really not a good thing for us gamers. Imagine loosing 5-10-15 years of paid for games just because some problem happened.Think about it.
PLease bear with me, english is not my native tongue.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:11 am
oh, and I called paypal, and they corrected the situation on their side yesterday morning, still waiting for Valve. Wasn’t able to play all w-e, since I uninstalled all of my other games to be able to download most of the games I bought last week-end to back them up, freaking catch 22.
Very pissed gamer…
December 8th, 2009 at 7:34 am
It’s been 4 hours since I decided to play World in Conflict. The past 4 hours I have spent updating and verifying game files.
I use steam for two reasons; I never have to worry about losing or scratching discs and I don’t have to wait for games to ship, just for them to DL.
I’ve gotta say though, steam PISSES me the FUCK off. Why the fuck should it take 4 motherfucking hours to play a game that I’m going to be done with in half an hour anyway? FUCK steam, it needs to be fixed. It needs to let me play my games whenever the fuck I want to play them, regardless of whether or not there are updates available and regardless of whether or not I’m connected to the internet.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Swearing at these buffoons wont hurt them, so I would like to suggest suing STEAM, and everyone who’s Pissed off with them could contribute cash to pay for an international LAW SUIT against them????
December 10th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Steam fucking sucks! Those guys are assholes and should all go fuck themselves. I doenst work on my stupid computer and i can hardly play cod2 at all coz steam doesnt let me. I wanna go over there and fucking shoot those guys in the face. Steam, you are all fucking retards, I payed good money for the game now let me play it assholes!
December 10th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
steam does not suck just bescuse you get banned
December 10th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
–>>steam does not suck just bescuse you get banned –>
It doe.. I don’t care what 1 person does, no one should loose access to all the game they legally PAID for. I got my access back now, but I still hate steam and will not buy anymore games from them. I will not let someone be the arbitrary judge of hundreds and even potentially thousand dollars worth of games. Sorry, if it’s ok for you to let someone else be the real pwner of your stuff, go ahead and spread them if you like…
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Steam is pretty excellent.
I use it for all my game purchases and have since HL2 release. Everything’s been seamless and fantastic. Never been denied access to any of my games, offline or on.
You can disable automatic updates if you want, btw.
Don’t know what’s wrong with you guys.
December 26th, 2009 at 6:31 am
steam sucks, i cant re sell a retail game once i get bored of it, nor can i share it with my bro cause the key is tied to my steam account, and if he used my steam account he continues off my game stats and does not start fresh, if you can, just buy the console version, you can share it around the house anytime, start fresh, and you can resell it anytime too, fuck this steam shit i will no longer buy any game that requires steam or anything similar to it
December 28th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I´m also against the need of net connection in order to run a single player for the first time.
How steam can be so bad:
-Steam produtcs are so expensive as any other games, but later when you install a steam game, you´ll be forced to download updated and additional files for the game, therefore you are paying for more, and you´ll be paying more if in future if you reinstall the game in a new pc or in new windows system installed, so you´ll never know how much you´ll be paying in the future to replay a steam game.
Steam can make take more than 14 hours to install a game , and not all the people have time, patient and money to waste unfairly in this unbarable installing process, do you like to arrive home after a full day job and then unexpectadly see you little time of freedom and relaxion for entertainment being wasted and fully ocupied by a long installation? i´m sure no one likes it. And it makes no sense to finish a game that took half of the time to be installed.
People that care about their products, are people that should know that they have full control of their products, people who have their products free from someone else system to enjoy it, because you´ll never know the day of tommorrow, so if something bad happens to steam, like going out of business or data loss, you still want to be able to play your games , because many people such i like to replay a game after some years, just like seeing again a movie, an audio cd, reading a book and so one. So i like to know i´ve purchase a game that cointains all the files, a game wich i kow i can run as long as it is in my possession, and not a game which half of the files belong to someone´s company forever.
And that´s why a pyrate copy of a steam game has become more genuíne by containg all files and for not requiring steam connection; and nowadays you can find a good and cheap print that can make you good covers for your copies…i was against copies, but ever since steam and other companys alike appeared i started supporting it, not only is cheaper has you can easly install it without a long installing process and without a net connection or creating a steam acount.
Like everything that runs in the internet world, Steam is not 100% free and protected from Hackers and virus ,spammers and other net issues, so there has been already some complains from the Steam users concerining these problems, we know that the number of hackers have been increasing, so what guarantees do we have that Steam will be always well sucessed in its system features? so imagine how may people would have their steam games useless if something bad hapenned to Steam company, because acidents happens, but accients don´t happen to million people at the same time. Hackers will always find new ways to sabotage systems, the movie “world wars” show well that.
The less requesits a game has , the more acessible it will be, and the more people will be able to enjoy it.
Oh, i almost forgot to say, hackers can steal your steam game, tsk…tsk
I am tottaly against Steam
December 28th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I recently installed CoD:MW2 and got fucked in the ass by steam…it has taken over all of my games and it sucks dick….I’ve never seen games crash so fucking much in my life, and it eats up all of my resources. I’m removing all of it from my machine, CoD doesn’t fucking work anyway.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I did not know about Steam until I bought Fear 2. I started having a really annoying bug. During play, Fear would minimise and Steam would pop up. There was no message or anything. When I tried to get back to Fear, I couldn`t!! Nothing worked. So Each time I had to force quit Fear and restart it. I got so annoyed that I swore never to buy another game that comes with gucking steam.
Lately I bought COD Modern Warfare 2 and I forgot to check if it used steam. Well… it does. It didn`t take long until the Multiplayer mode didn`t work any more. Some error message popped up telling me to contact steam support. I did and they wrote me back that they thank me for my posting and that they are aware of the problem. Great. Meanwhile, I can`t play the game that I payed good money for. The single player mode is about 8 - 10 hours of play - that`s a joke. It`s meant to be played online and fucking steam is preventing me from doing that.
As Connor already put it:
FUCK YOU STEAM
FUCK YOU VALVE
FUCK YOU ALL THE DEVELOPERS THAT USE STEAM
Cheers
Mike
January 1st, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I used steam when HL2 was first released what a nightmare! I was still using dial up and it took bloody hrs to install and was a pain to run each time, I then kept getting banned from the steam forums even when I never used them!!!
I later got rid of steam as I was fed up trying to get it to work each time I ran HL2, never again will I touch anything that needs steam, good idea but badly implemented. I hate steam and won;t touch it if I was paid to.
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
While steam is spiffy for people with endless bandwidth, one computer ever, and no particular hurry to use the software they’ve bought, in the big picture it makes software just that much more complicated. The more steps you add and fiddly little obligatory features surrounding the core product, the more things there are to break. Requiring T4 players to create yet another internet account, log on somewhere, download updates and install patches is a burden on the consumer and is simply begging to break the product for some of them. The Bioware-style central update server is perfectly satisfactory for single-player games. Steam is more painful than it’s worth.
January 12th, 2010 at 8:42 am
I had no problems in installing my orange box, but the idea of requiring you to be online when installing games AND playing them offline is just stupid and tedious. Not only that, when the time comes that i will need to wipe my hardware’s memory its going to be hell reinstalling these games.
Note that I played the cracked versions of HL2 and Portal FIRST before purchasing, I bought the O box for TF2. I swear its update looks like its stuck on 1%. Seriously, installing the cracked games where a lot easier than this shit.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
It’s time for someone to take steam to court
January 17th, 2010 at 2:08 am
I think valve is subversively supporting piracy. Why else would they put people through the hell that is steam??
If my theory is not true then I truly wish pain and suffering upon the developers of steam.
I wish that.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:18 pm
MAN…Fuck Steam fking dickheads i bought fallout 3 from steam and dang!…nothing else but boolsht fking clowns,i could install evrything but when i try to launch the game via the steam i get a message that tells me the cd does not appear to be installed or some punkasssteamboolshit and yeh i tryed to launch steam in administrator,didnt work for me…then after searching for 2days now i stil have no fix for it,and when i open the game in goty fallout 3 map and start new game i get to se how the baby gets born i can pick gender, but after the lady goes away the guy stays looking on his left its like hes looking to a womans leg…and the screen just stays that way.and guess what steam got some other shit for ya…i registered on the forum of steam looking to post this boolshit but when i activated my account and i tryed over and over still i get 2 fking messages the last1 i cant understand:you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
1. Your account may not be activated. Please check that you have verified your email address.
2. Are you posting in Off Topic? You must have 10 or most posts to participate in Off Topic.
3. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else’s post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
4. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
2nd message:Your account has been activated but you are currently in the moderation queue to be added to the forum.and thats about it all this boolshit for a game i bought 49.99euro’s hahahaaaa FUCK STEAM!AND DONT BUY FROM STEAM!!!oh and i forgot to tell i get another message now when i try to launch via steam today i get:this game is curently unavailable try again another time you got ponked by the steam team hahahaha dang……..(the last i made up behind time)
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Steam sucks, been trying to play Empire total war and steam keeps on downloading already an hour that I’m waiting for this game to start and on top of it all it say’s most of the time that it doesn’t respond, there goes 50 euro’s down the drain thanks rip offs, I understand now why people pirate games!!!
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:31 am
activision can go and get fucked ! i paid for the game but they wont let me play it ! STEAM IS FUCKED !.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
steam is so fucking ball, the endless udates, i only hung on to it as it’s good for counter strike sometimes when i can get into afuckingmatch) but today when the AVP demo decidedt not fucking work after an hou or so of downloading ive had enough.
Gabe Newell can suck my balls dry
February 6th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
I wanted to launch Modern Warfare 2, but STEAM started updating, it updated for about 14hours and distoed 75% of my internet traffic. When it was done Updating, i tryed to launch the game, but some error came out, it said that some file named “localization.txt” is missing or something! I have no idea what to do! can they at least pay me my money back, or give another copy of the game? Why STEAM makes it so complex, why can’t they just let people play?
February 7th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Well my steam crashed so i reinsatll it. But what happen, my profile is gone. i got mw2, gmod and CSS on that profile.
February 7th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Yeah, my friend’s profile crushed too, when he tryed to play from the internet cafe…