Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: Mursilis
Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: Smilin
The problems with steam have always been overexagerated.
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Wrong. I'll grant that Steam has been great lately, and 99% of the time, I've loved it/had no issues with it. However, I also bought HL2 on release day and (along with many others) had major issues authenticating my purchase so I could actually play it. Steam was almost completely unprepared for the release of HL2.
Currently, the only complaint I have with Steam is relatively minor, and it involves original games and expansion packs. Apparently, if you own a retail version of a game (I encountered this with both Company of Heroes and Titan Quest), you can't buy the expansion pack via Steam, and vice-versa - if you bought the original games via Steam, you need to buy the expansions via Steam as well for compatibility. There's probably a good technical reason for this, and may have been fixed by now, so it's really a minor complaint. Otherwise, I think Steam is great and problem-free the vast majority of the time.
So you're saying that even though you only have a 1% disappointment rating (your figure, not mine) with Steam, you don't think all the issues are over exaggerated? Sounds a bit contradictory.
In terms of personal use for myself, I have been running Steam from almost day one. I pre-purchased and pre-downloaded Half Life 2 without an issue and was able to authenticate without issue on launch day (not at midnight, but during the day after I got home from work). Perhaps it was a little slow, but it worked. At this time I did not have a super-duper internet connection either, it was just a standard DSL line. Just about every one of my real world friends has had little to no issues utilizing steam either.
This is just personal experience mind you, and I do understand that people did have issues authenticating with the server, but I really think that the problem was more overstated than how bad it really was.
If the release of HL2 is the only real issue you can point your finger at in terms of poor service, then that, in itself, shows that the service is well made and works as intended... thus, the problems are, and have always been, "overexagerated"