Gattsu25 said:
Burger, nice post :|
just for the hell of it:
I just came back from EB with a early copy of HL2...oops! Steam won't let me play the game until I register...oops! the registration servers are down and it took forever for steam to realize that...hey! Steam will let me still play the game...oops! now I need to decrypt the game... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .*comes back from gas station* ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... .. .. ... .. ... ... ... .. ... ... .. ... .. .. . . .... ... ... ... .. ... ... .. . .... ... ... .. .. ... .. .. .. .... ... ... .great! now I can play..oops! my performance isn't as good as it should be...let me close this absolutely useless and conter-intuitive steam bullshit so I can utilize the 33MB of memory it's currently occupying...oops! now I can't play HL2
I love you steam!!
Nobody could play HL2 early, that was always clear.
Absolutley useless ?? How is that ? If I load Steam I know that it very well could be patching all my games, without me even lifting a finger. It can burn backups of my games onto cd's (name another game that does this). It delivers new games, addons and content to me the second it comes out. I had Halflife 2 Deathmatch running within an hour of it releasing, and it took 2 mouse clicks.
Steam can also download hardware specific upgrades for my games when they become available in the future.
My copy of steam has a 9.8 meg footprint. If you are worried about 33megs then you should probably open your wallet and upgrade. I can't imagine that 33megs would have a difference on a 512meg config, let alone 1gig.
Conventional:
Load up UT2004, play game, oh no patch required, exit game, load firefox, goto some website, search ut2004, do I need patch 3405 ? oh well i'll try, 24meg download, save to desktop, wait, run, select ut2004 directory, wait, exit, goto desktop, delete patch file, load ut2004, play game.
Steam:
Double click steam. Double click game. Wait.