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[ElyrionX]

OK, so I want to play the single-player component of Half-Life 2. I put in the CD and click play. Where does that bring me?

To a goddamn screen where I have to update the Steam platform. The update takes 30 minutes on my slowass connection.

This is ridiculous. Why must I download an update for an online platform when all I'm looking for is single-player action. And don't get me started on all that bullshit I went through during installation just to "activate" Half-Life 2. There were like god-knows-how-many number of different processes and "updates" that I had to go through just to get Half-Life 2 running.

If this is indeed the future of gaming, then I'm afraid the future is looking very bleak at the moment.

 

[captainbiotch]

Once you have steam installed, everything is easy. I have 10 or so games and mods in my steam list.

 

[Azih]

Updating Steam to play a single player game does sound laughably stupid.

 

[The End]

that'll teach you to be too poor for broadband

:lol

 

[skrew]

turn of your internet, start steam and it will go to offline mode

 

[Kon Tiki]

Find your steam.ini

Change
SteamOnline=1
to
SteamOnline=0

 

[Burger]

It's not updating Steam, it's updating your games.

If there was a bug in HL2 that prevented you playing, would you be complaining then ?

Like the others said, play in offline mode.

 

[Dr Zhivago]

Also, set HL2's properties to "don't auto-update".

 

[Mooreberg]

If this is indeed the future of gaming, then I'm afraid the future is looking very bleak at the moment.

 

[bbyybb]

With it updating you get all the fixes, such as the improved level load times etc.

Isn't that a good thing?


Cheers,
bbyybb.

 

[The Shadow]

 

[Fantasmo]

Man, you guys are relentless. :lol :lol

He may have stayed away from forum spoilers until now.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

I like Steam

 

[Sho Nuff]

I've had HL2 installed for a while, and today when I wanted to play, it said "VERIFYING YOUR HALF-LIFE 2 FILES" and it literally took 10 minutes to do so. AFAIK it hadn't updated the game, WTF is this shit?

 

[CrimsonSkies]

I hate Steam. It's the equivelant imho of all that garbage you get put on your system by Real Player now.

 

[Nerevar]

I hate Steam. It's the equivelant imho of all that garbage you get put on your system by Real Player now.

What? You know, you don't have to have steam running all the time. You can close it down when you're finished playing a game. Honestly, I think people are just bitching for the sake of bitching at this point.

 

[Nester]

My only gripe about steam is the friends list. No matter what I do, how many times I reinstall, even after a clean format of my computer, nothing in my friends list ever works properly. Get it fixed and I would love steam.

 

[Bregor]

Let's be fair - Steam has been a pain to many people. Valve still needs to work on it more.

But I have no sympathy for those who complain about things that they can easily fix themselves, especially when the solution has been mentioned multiple times on this forum.