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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August 29th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Well, I have been running steam for about 3 months now…
and it’s at 96%. Yes it’s slow and yes I’ve mummbled a few words to my self, but at least it’s moving barely( in case you didn’t know I have 26.4kbps… so that’s why)
Also you should play America’s army,
Battle field serries.
Far cry,
and lots of others you should google FPS games/ open source FPS
September 1st, 2008 at 12:33 am
I love Valve. They make great great games. Half-Life 2 has an average score of 96/100. Then, they came up with Steam. Instead of using those fantastic programmers to make a great machine of form and function (As I have no doubt they could have), they rushed the fucking thing and put a bunch of piss-heads in charge of it.
Now, I live in America, so I cannot claim to have the connection or download times that the rest of you unfortunately do. But the program itself is, for lack of a better phrase, a steaming pile od donkey shit. Now, this could make me NOT want to murder everyone who developed Steam, if they had decent support, but they don’t. They really, really don’t.
Go to the Steam Support page. There is a “Usefulness” star rating next to every article. most of them are below 40%. 80% are under 25. Because of their clusterfuck with switching accounts, I’m out $150. All this simply because I got a newer, faster computer to run my awesome Valve games even better than before.
God, I hate Steam.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:11 am
yea im just wondering if anyone out there knows a better way to update the games on steam, apparently you need to use steam in order to play valves games, thats bullshit, but i have to deal with it. im just looking for a way to download these games faster on a dial up connection
September 1st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Updating Steam Platform - 78% Complete
Fuck.
Im gonna cut my wrists…..
Whenever I wanna play I gotta wait for this shit and by the time its done I dont wanna fuckin play anymore.
Steam Is more corrupt than Mugabe.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Gorrila, copy steam folder from a friend that has all apps.
Then install steam.
rename steam folder to steambak
then replace with friends steam folder.
Then log in with your details .. change nick and settings …
Goodluck
Updating Steam Platform - 81% Complete
Fuck.
I hate this.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Oh this is so brilliant, hope it comes to light
http://www.guru3d.com/news/the-gamers-bill-of-rights-/
September 16th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Steam is too hard for me to figure out, I don’t have broadband, also I’m retarded and hate progress, give me my cds forever, screw your innovation
September 18th, 2008 at 1:53 am
How about a client that takes up less system recources then windows vista?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
fucking steam and vac suck balls, their programs are fucking faulty and their programmers [not to mention the guys who do the messaging on the website] are a bunch of pussy ball lickers. they dont even reply to you when you have been wrongfully banned. fucking faggots. i even saves my last post to them. here have fun reading it and having a good laugh about how much steam sucks and are a bunch of pussy faggots
I am very disappointed with your company, i have been banned for cheating when i have never cheated on any steam game, or any other game. i am just naturally good at these games and people have reported me for pwning their faces in. i would very much like to be unbanned so i can actually play my games that i paid good money for, or i want my money back that i wasted on your program. i have been told a few times to go buy a new copy of the game, which i find offensive because unlike you money grubbing assholes, i am not rich… i have barely any money to my name and i can not buy a copy of a game that I ALREADY FUCKING OWN. i would rather buy new games that don’t have steam or anti vac programs that ban innocent players. now this time i would like a fucking response you spineless pussies, yes i went there the last few times i have tried to get a response from you, i never got one so grow some balls and respond to your messages about your faulty programing.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’ve had Steam for years with various games and have never had a problem. I find them to be a great, fair, and cheap company. I notice that there are many complaints linked to the slowness of the updates and remind people that many steam games require you to have a fast CPU and (in the cases of the online games like TF2) a good internet connection, which is sort of common sense. You know this, so if you have less-than-adequate stats on your computer and go ahead and buy the games anyway, don’t complain when they wind up being too slow. I’ve also never had my account suspended or banned and have a sneaking suspicion that some (though I understand, not all) of you complaining of these issues were most likely guilty of cheating, which it is Steam’s policy to ban you from certain VAC-protected servers and such, so again, no grounds for complaining (you know who you are).
September 28th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Maggie: I want you to go search “system resources” in google.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:27 am
To be honest I’ve noticed steam getting more and more unstable over time. They still have not fixed the Source Engine crash on exit, even though they said they released a patch for that… I just feel like Valve puts too much faith in their technology and the refusal to accept that there are maybe some flaws in the system or VAC is just plain arrogant. I’ve heard way too many people complain about steam to believe that its perfect… That’s putting my own negative experiences aside…
September 30th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
It’s time for me to add my 2 cents… FUCK YOU Steam. I bought Portal and have been trying to get the game to work for the last week and still the motherfucker won’t run eventhough it says 100% ready what the hell!!! The box never mentioned I would have to wait a week or more before I could play. To respond to Steam Administrator’s post well screw you dumb ass I own the damn game and I can’t play what the fucking hell. I payed hard earned cash for your shit product that is now a useless DVD on my desk. I can’t play because it won’t finish updating. Valve makes great games but as far as I am concerned they have lost all future business from me. Never will I ever spend another fucking penny on any Steam or Valve product. I feel for all you SA guys. I live in a rural community in Canada and I can’t get anything but damn dial-up so I’m fucked. Fuck you Steam for screwing me out of my money. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for my copy to take hours upon hours upon days to be functional oh yeah and did I mention it still doesn’t work after a week of frustration… I will be making it a point of shiting on Steam and convincing as many people as I can to avoid pruchasing any product from them for as long as they exist. Any illegal copy is better than a purchased copy because they have no respect for their customers and just don’t give a shit once you’ve forked over your cash on top of that the illegal copies work anywhere and at anytime. I know I said it already but I’m so pissed I have to say it again FUCK YOU VALVE AND STEAM. I will do my best to keep you from as many dollars of revenue as I can.In a lifetime I should be able to convince quite a few people too avoid your products. Everyone should do the same and I hope they do. You deserve to go bankrupt. You fucked me and I will do my best to fuck you.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
and also if u lose ur account steam wont give a shit i lost about 300-400$ cause i forgot my password all they give u is an automated message they dont give a shit if u lose ur account only wish for u to make a new one and buy all ur games again and now i cant even delete those games takeing up space on my comp cause u have to accses steam to deleted them fuck u valve u peice of shit
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
Simple enough, Steam/Valve sucks totally and will go the way of EA soon. Good riddance you bunch of hacks.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Lordy, we’re all a little heated in here…
PC’s/Software/Hardware/Broadband - No 2 people have exactly the same set-ups with exactly the same business going on under the hood. If you want that, console gaming (which is always behind PC gaming) is for you.
I feel for you guys with the slow broadband, it’s a pain in the ass downloading bigger games and there’s not much you can do about that, especially if you’re copper wire not fibre-optic. You’re never going to get great broadband speed on copper anyway; I live across the road from my British Telecom exchange and i have 8meg broadband…I get 690-710 kbps at night and 400-420 kbps during the day…8meg does not mean 8meg per second…and i’m literally 30 feet from the exchange. Broadband is a bitch…but your slow speeds from Steam servers are all to do with your broadband, not Steam.
Lost password? You’re a numpty…keep your original registration email on your hraddrive and print off a damn copy of it. Problem - AVOIDABLE.
PC Doesn’t run a game? Can it run the game? Hundreds of thousands of people have played Steam games without problems…individual rigs are, by and large, 99% responsible for game crashes. Problem - Check your rig before you crap yourself over “faulty” product when so many other people have no problems at all.
Illegal Copies being better than genuine copies: What absolute bullshit. Quote “In a lifetime I should be able to convince quite a few people too avoid your products. Everyone should do the same and I hope they do. You deserve to go bankrupt. You fucked me and I will do my best to fuck you.” Yet more bullshit. Ok, your games doesn’t work…you’re pissed about that…understandable…but your pointless vendetta means nothing if your PC is fucked from the outset. Re-seat your cards, re-seat your memory, check your connections, run CCleaner and clear your registry out…Run system restore to the last available point where everything was working…update your drivers…THIS IS ALL STANDARD STUFF THAT ALL PC OWNERS KNOW AND ACCEPT HAS TO HAPPEN TO KEEP YOUR MACHINE RUNNING SMOOTHLY. Problem - You.
STEAM has issues…so far only 1 game has refused to work for me first time round (Bioshock) and that’s my own damn fault for not letting DirectX update (figured as I havd DX10, why do i need DX9…my bad and once i re-installed, it worked fine). EVERY other problem i’ve had has been down to Nvidia drivers…nothing to do with STEAM.
Apart from your broadband issues…i don’t see you have anything to complain about. Sorry…
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
1. Little or no technical support (I dare you , try to get support for a problem from them).
2. Faulty offline mode system, doesnt allow you to play unless specific circumstances are met, I’m still not sure what those are exactly.
3. VAC seems to be banning people who did not actually cheat… And Valve completely refuse to hear their case (which is understandable but no one can claim a system is perfect).
4. Takes 5 mins or more to login, yes I have a slow connection but what is it sending, is it downloading my hardrive first!? It takes me 20 secs or less to download my e-mail on a bad day. (This may not be a connection issue so to speak but enough people have experienced the same problem)
5. Utilizes an incredibly large amount of system resources, which seems unnecessary compared to what steam actually does…
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
1)Tech Support - I refer you again to my remarks about individual systems…it’s IMPOSSIBLE for any company to cater to the needs of all individual users, especially where problems are exclusive to a handful of users; do you check the forums? I do, regularly and there’s plenty in there to help. I appreciate that you pay your money and expect a service…but do you really think a company has the time or even inclination to build a test system identical to yours (or anyone else with an issue experienced by a handful of people) to see if they can replicate your problem? No! However, when i did send them a query I did get a reasonable answer and was directed to appropriate info in the forums, which solved my problem. That said, the problem in question was “S.T.A.L.K.E.R” which was released in almost beta form and was buggy from the outset..5 patches in 6 months tell you that it’s the game manufacturer that was the cause of the problem, not Steam.
2) Offline system - is an afterthought…STEAM is built for online gaming; long in while you’re online, switch to offline and play away forever…easy
3 VAC - Not had any problems myself so can only empathise.
4 Login Time - So, you’d rather the software was never update and bugs remained for good? Can’t have it both ways…
5 System Resources - I know at least a dozen people who run Steam with systems inferior to mine…never see anything above 1% when running idle…once your game kicks in you’d expect “some” cpu activity wouldn’t you? If Steam is hogging your CPU time i’d suggest the problem is more to do with your connection and maybe firewall…is vsmon running high? Check your firewall…ZoneAlarm, AVG and Panda can really hog your system…
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Games have been updating and bugs have fixed long before game steam, Special K Breakfast. That isnt an apt justification for long login time.
If Steam was simple a client that downloaded games,
And updated them it would be not an issue. Steam doesnt need to be a “Comunity”.
also .exe has
worked great for launching games, we dont need a client to do that. What is wrong
with a launch program that I can use without loging into steam?
You cant make a cow do a horses work, that is really what steam is trying to do,
October 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I actually just got ripped of by steam because I didn’t realize the Canadian dollar fell so low. I was thinking we were still somewhat on par. Turns out its 78cents to their dollar. So I paid more in exchange rate then I would have in taxes if i bought the box at a retail store. Which is the same base price at Futureshop. (49.99) I want my money back, but I got fucked instead. I was too excited in getting the game instead of doing my homework.
October 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
To Latefromsurgery - Yes, games have been updating before STEAM…but the STEAM client covers more than one game…it covers whatever you have installed, so that’s game updates, client updates, server updates, news, info, support…so yes, sometimes there’s a lot to check.
As for bypassing Steam…well, you can’t, but then if you don’t want STEAM…buy the game from a store…and stop moaning…STEAM is an option, but not the only one…again, an avoidable problem.
Some Dude - you got ripped by STEAM because of an EXCHANGE RATE!!! LOL, since when did Steam control global exchange rates, you muppet! Get back to your homework, little boy…come back once you’ve grown a brain.
You people….
October 26th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
” #131 Special K Breakfast Says:
As for bypassing Steam…well, you can’t, but then if you don’t want STEAM…buy the game from a store…and stop moaning…STEAM is an option, but not the only one…again, an avoidable problem. ”
Dude… When you buy the retail version of the orange box, YOU HAVE TO INSTALL STEAM TO PLAY!!! There is a workaround, I know of a lot of people who have hacked the steam client and allowed the games to be played without it (multiplayer games excluded). But, as far as a legal consumer such as myself is concerned, I am doomed to play with this shitty slow client harvesting my system information, eating resources and delaying my playtime considerably so that I can play my favourite Valve games…
Also, it is generally a disgusting sign that a company cannot provide technical support for the entire community that uses its product. I’m very disappointed in Valve when it comes to this, its like a cellphone company providing cellphone coverage but absolutely no technical support to their customers, that company would get knocked out by any single rival that showed an interest in their customers well being and provided coverage that was faster, more reliable and stable…
Do your homework dude… If your gonna talk to people like their children then your gonna be treated like one… Dont forget to brush your teeth too..
To LateFromSurgery, loved the metaphor!
October 26th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Thanks Cyanide.
I agree about you tech support bit. Its a pity, Value makes some great games.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Yeah, Steam sucks ass man, fuck! I put some things to download and then go play MP. I get disconnected from great ping even tough I told Steam to not dl anything while I was playing!!! This sux! And I don’t wanna fucking program every time i want to play SP or MP.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Cyanide…
I was referring to “gaming” in general when i said buy retail…I appreciate that Orange box requires a Steam install but as people here seem to have a problem with Valve and Steam, best advice is to avoid…
If Steam is hogging your system I can only ask, what CPU are you using, an Athlon XP? You have malware issues if Steam is using anything above 3%…
I’ve had issues with GTA 4, which again i bought through Steam…this is a designers problem, not Steam…but Steam replied to my issue even though it’s not their game!
And the forums are there because so many people, with so many specs, use Steam…this isn’t like a Utilities service (Gas/Electric etc.) where everyone is using the same product on the same terms. Your cellphone analogy falls flat here…
Homework done…i thank you….
December 26th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Steam SUUUUUCKS. So i’m trying to install The Orange Box. I just wanted to play some Portal. The install seems to have gone fine, but now Steam wants to “update” portal for the next 5 hours or so before i am allowed to play..(which gives me plenty of time to complain about this online) My system is fine (P4 2.8 ghz with about 1.25 gigs of RAM and an nvidia gforce 7800GS), and I have a high speed connection. I have installed and played all of the games in The Orange Box before, and the games work just fine - it is Steam that sucks balls. Apparently it is not going to let me play until it gets done downloading several hours worth of updates. I guess if i didn’t have the internet i couldn’t play these games at all? What a crock of shit.
I would just like to suggest to Valve to stop using Steam because it is annoying the hell out of your customers, or at least, the people that used to be your customers.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I fucking hate Steam. Good I got that out of the way. I can buy a boxed copy of a game for cheaper then what Valvly walvy wants for it on Steam WITHOUT A BOX. When I close Steam, it doesn’t really close. I actually waited it out one time, 9 hours 53 min later: it was still running. I’m with you Steam haters. It sucks. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly a moron.
Plus, I wonder when they’re gonna stop support for 2000.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Steam is a fucking abortion. I just lost 400 dollars worth of games because I found a cd key to use in call of juarez - a game I bought and installed that DID NOT INCLUDE a cd key. I sent them a message to let them know that it didn’t install a working cd key and what I did to get around it. They suspended my account for piracy. I have a receipt and confirmation number for the game and everything.
Steam is a fucking abortion.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:00 am
I have no problems with steam. None of your things above ever happened… Execpt being vac-disabled.. which is a bit dissapointing..
January 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
steam does suck - I have a decent system and a very fast connection yet when I play left 4 dead, it is rare that I can complete an entire campaign without being dropped - I should videotape it because it would be an excellent testimony on youtube about how much steam sucks
February 13th, 2009 at 5:11 am
I added someone to my friends list on L4D and now the game won’t load. Valve is awesome and craps out gold. So why did they subcontract out a service that sucks so much ass?
February 17th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I just got saint row 2 on PC and didn’t know about the Steam bullshit. My computer is a monster and can happily handle anything I also have a good net connection. Now i can’t play my game! WTF!!!!!! Tomorrow I’m taking it back to the shop and getting a full refund (I looked it up and since i brought a product which is ‘faulty’ i.e. it doesn’t run, they have to refund me or they are breaking the law), as soon as I can I’ll download a hacked copy if it works but now that is the only way I’m ever going to play the game.
This is fucking retarded and they should be shut down!!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Steam, once again, decided to change the language of my game with no reason. I’d have liked to play tonight, but I will have to wait that the stupid german version of my game finish downloading. Of course, I don’t speak german. And of course too, download runs at 60 kbps while my connection can run 15 times faster. Toooo baaaaad, I’m going on hollydays tomorrow and will not be able to play my game for a week.
I hate mother fuckin steam son of a bitch !
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
FUCK steam forever,gay update fucking bugs,always freeze while logging in,sucks,wish they all die now
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I had steam nearly ten years ago when CS was really big. My computer was a DELL GX240, and was fairly nice at the time (I had upgraded the graphics card). Steam was, much like now, much more of a burden than a blessing. Rather than acting as a “launchpad”, it was more of a choke point. It demanded that it start up with windows, took FOREVER to accomplish its various setting up stuff, and proceeded to continually sap CPU processing power. When i finally deleted it, i saw to my utter, utter amazement that my steam folder was 8 GIGS. My hard drive was 40.
Now, as then, Steam continues to be more like that burden so long ago. I’m running a much more advanced setup, but Steam seems to have… “stepped up it’s game”. It takes HUGE amounts of processing power to start up, it still runs background process (albeit less than before), crashes like crazy on many of their games, has a buggy/laggy interface with multiplayer, and is generally still unenjoyable. I wish they would just let the games be standalone, and maybe make do with a newsletter or something for advertising. I do not, do NOT appreciate having steam shoved down my throat for nigh on a decade. Although all my game copies are legal, there are a few which i have gone out of my way to crack/download copies so that they no longer need steam to run. The only saving grace to steam is that there is no other way to play VALVe’s great games. If there were, everyone would use that instead.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:54 am
hi everyone im giray from turkey i think steam sucks and nothing but a crap service i played and finished an illegal copy of HL2 years ago now one of the best strategy game of this year empire total war demo released yesterday only on steam then i downloaded steam and download the demo steam is download files under super low speed i cant get it i have 2048 mbit dsl connection but it takes all day then updating starts updating and updating it seem to never end then i unistalled the game also steam i hate it i think you steam people maybe start with a good idea but it not works that way whats the logic of take permission to start a game everytime also why i cannot play until updatings over maybe im not smart but it look like stupid if anyone understand why just post it
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hi! i´am Another one that have been lured into this bad Service.
I bought Dawn Of War 2 via Steam. The download took 2days on a 100mbit connection. I could have bought the game in a store and played it the first day. Even more annoying is that the game is about 6-7euros less for the boxed game.
After the game been downloaded i had to patch it.. another 2hour of waiting got 10-40kb/s on their “dedicated” server. I could have dowloaded the patch on a free non dedicated server on 5min.
I think this Service are realy bad and i tryed to get my money back, but Steams support seems to be as slow as their Dedicated servers. i got an answer 5days later that they could not return my money.
Even the software are realy slow and takes alot of CPU and memory, It takes about 2-4min to get Steam running. And no it is not my Computer that is slow(Intel e8400@3.0Ghz and Corsair Dominator DDR2 8500 8GB memory, 9800GX2)
So if you are thinking about buying a game, buy the box copy. Not a Steam copy. You will not be able to play the game for many hours and you will have to wait if there is a patch, not the way you wait for windowsupdate (where you can use the game/software while waiting). NO no no… You have to wait until downloaded before you can play (at dedicated 10-50kb/sek).
My advise is buy the DVD, close Steam.
Fuck Steam.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
hellllooo, hope steam die’s, im a total war fan, im HOOKED on em, neva used steam before today, and guess fucking what, my WLAN connection isnt the best, so i jus shelled out £40 on a game im never gna play, i guess its my own fault for not thinking, “Why would i have to log in every time” anyone know if i buy a copy of the game, do i have to deakl with the shitty fucking ARGHHDGFGFFHGHISDIFSDHF ….you know what i mean…VIVA LA REVOLUTION
March 4th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Hi. Yeah left work early to buy Total War today. Paid 40 quid and I’m sitting here waiting for it to download. I appreciate there’s hysteria about piracy but I own this game now and I can’t bloody play it. Got 8mb broadband and it’s taking hours. Absolute disgrace frankly. I want to play it tonight; I don’t get this Steam idea - why the f@@@ do I need to wait hours to play a game I paid cash money for?
March 5th, 2009 at 2:02 am
I just bought Empire Total War(5 hours ago)and have yet to get it installed because of some crap called STEAM. Yea I think i know why its called steam… because you’ll have steam coming out your ears before you ever get your game installed. I guess I can still play frisbie with my new discs. I will not buy another pc game that requires steam. Thanks for letting me get rid of some steam.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Steam is the biggest fucking load of shit I have ever come across. If steam doesn’t work then you have a ton of unusable software.
Why the fuck am I still having the same tech problems with steam that I had 2-3 years ago. The issues should have been fixed in that time. They have obviously spent most of their energy sweeping the tech problems under the carpet.
I say fuck those who force steam… Everyone should download pirate versions of all the steam games they want, for one, they come with cracks that bypass steam and the pirate community has way better tech support.
For everyone who bought Dawn of war 2 and/or empire total war only to be ambushed by that #$%^#$^#$%# steam..
Download the Cracks for them.. not only will the game run faster but your system won’t have it’s resources raped by steam.
/Rant
March 7th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
If i ever find and enter a game, shity steam always has some connection problems, it doesnt like something on my computer, sez my mother cant be in my room and so on. I really liked Counter Strike for the game it is but fucking steam just dont let me enjoy CSS like i should. DONT BUY STEAM PRODUCTS EVER!!!
March 13th, 2009 at 8:44 am
FUCK YOU STEAM! And fuck the gaming companies who have started to patronize this stupid piece of crap of a software. Here I waited a full hour for Empire|: Total War to finish installing, then Steam has updates of it’s own which will take twice as long? what the shit is this? I am a busy man and I treasure my time during weekends, it seems the people from Steam are hell bent on taking away enjoyment from out games. Again, FUCK YOU STEAM! and I hope the guy that came up with this capitalist bullshit crap dies painfully and slowly.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Fuck steam… i payed for dawn of war 2, played it, and now it doesen’t work…. please steam just go fuck off i want to play my games OFFLINE AND WITHOUT HASSLE
March 14th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Fuck off steam, you stupid piece of cock sucking CRAP!!!! i dont give a flying monkeys left hairy testicle if you want to update empire total war, ive been waiting months for this game, JUST LET ME FUCKING PLAY IT!!!!! does any one know a torrent with working crack for empire total war, i just want to play my bloody game!!!! Also to sega, who the hell releases a game that needs a 2Gb patch in the first week???????!!!!!!!!!
March 15th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
GUYS I THINK I MAY HAVE SAVED US!!!
“C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe” -install d:
This only needs a Short connection to install as it install’s from the disc
But i’ll do my best to discribe how i did it
Right click>New>Shortcut> Copy and paste> “C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe” -install d: <
Ok, after a little playing aaround, searching for updates etc, you will get the screen you have been longing for, i dun this on empire total war and it could take anything up 2 hours…
after you done and installed all this, you exit the game and run your steam you should see said game with 100% done so just add a shortcut by right clicking on your game and adding it to desktop
For empire OFFLINE Mode “YOU STILL GOTTA DO ABOVE” Click your new Shortcut to empire (from steam)DONT CONNECT TO ANY INTERNET and you get the steam connection error, choose start in offline mode
I dont know how this fares for other games as my acc is pretty small atm, but im gna continue to try and find other ways to kick the shit out of 3pp- Goodluck!
March 15th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
“C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe” -install d:
This only needs a Short connection to install as it install’s from the disc
But i’ll do my best to discribe how i did it
Right click>New>Shortcut> Copy and paste> “C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe” -install d: <
Ok, after a little playing aaround, searching for updates etc
, you will get the screen you have been longing for, i dun this on empire total war and it could take anything up 2 hours…
after you done and installed all this, you exit the game and run your steam you should see said game with 100% done so just add a shortcut by right clicking on your game and adding it to desktop
For empire OFFLINE Mode “YOU STILL GOTTA DO ABOVE” Click your new Shortcut to empire (from steam)DONT CONNECT TO ANY INTERNET and you get the steam connection error, choose start in offline mode
I dont know how this fares for other games as my acc is pretty small atm, but im gna continue to try and find other ways to kick the shit out of 3pp- Goodluck!
March 17th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Yep also had endless problems with steam.
I bought DOW2 and the box clearly states “Internet Connection Required for Activation”.
It does not say you have to download the game and/or download updates before playing.
I finally found the -install d: option and it finally installed form the disk rather than downloading the ENTIRE game. Witch means there is a problem with the disks.
And even after all this i had to download around 200 meg for some update before i could play.
I Live in South Africa and the internet speeds we get here are rather slow and THQ, Steam and Relic should know this and have a warning on the game.
EVEY person I know that bought DOW2 has had exacly the same problem and I for one will not support steam in any way and will make sure that I spread the word on how bad steam is.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:44 pm
They ain’t going to do anything to about steam, I mean.. Look how fat and ugly they are.
April 4th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I honestly dont know why you guys are freakin out over a little program, i mean WTF? I have steam, and HL2 (all the episodes) and really it doesnt bother me at all, i mean when u launch it its like 30 secounds, and then u can game, its not that big of a deal, jesus, u guys make it sound like its a catastrophy (ps- soory for bad spelling as english isnt my first language)