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[nenjin]

I remember for KF, downloads the day of were a problem, and connection through Steam didn't work. And still doesn't, to this day. Maybe that's on TWI's end. I also had just overall slowness during the DoW 2 release and during subsequent patches. I know Steam took a huge dump when AC2 released too. Everyone's mileage may vary, and it may always just be a bad hub that day...but enough people report instability that I always leave a caveat for it.

[Capntastic]

Never had any real problems with Steam.   The built in friends thing is cool without being cumbersome and annoying, and Steam deals are always cool and occasionally overly generous.

[Lumbajak]

Steam is where most of my games are nowadays, and it's even my most-used chat client too.

I have little to no problems with it, really.

And while it's minor, the dark colouration of it is easy on the eyes.



Also I figured this would be a SteamID exchange thread when I clicked on it, but alas.

[Intelligent Shade of Blue]

I like Steam, love the deals (and TF2). Don't have any technical trouble with it.

[Itnetlolor]

I'm still waiting to be able to pay off my account (mostly in fear of having to pay off overdraft if that bites me in the ass, and any other fees involved for delay and such). In short, I may never get my account back, unless Valve is willing to take the easy route and let me pay them back already without having to go through the annoying-ass process of undoing the chargeback at the bank (where my paranoia lies). I mean, even my bank advises I pay Valve back directly instead of having to deal with them (the bank) for any consequences that may form from paying back the chargeback via affidavit. And yes, my bank advised me of this procedure.

My bank cares about it's customers, so Valve, learn from this example.

And before anyone tosses me any advice, I've been at it for at least half a year now, and according to their site, even if I did follow procedure, it would take half a year anyway for them to delegate if they should revive me anyway. Assholes. And I even explained how this behavior encourages piracy. They didn't budge. Well, at least the person that keeps on getting my messages. I might have to start a new thread asking for alternative methods instead of reviving the old thread about how to undo. Maybe then they'll listen.

Make matters worse; due to my account being disabled, I can't properly uninstall all the games I already installed while I was active.

I go the course of piracy, apparently no consequence. I go legit, and this crap happens. Justice isn't justice if it punishes it's abiders or repentful.

At least I have some games I can revive, but only because I have the keys I bought, and I can install the games via ISO.

[Tilla]

I'm still waiting to be able to pay off my account (mostly in fear of having to pay off overdraft if that bites me in the ass, and any other fees involved for delay and such). In short, I may never get my account back, unless Valve is willing to take the easy route and let me pay them back already without having to go through the annoying-ass process of undoing the chargeback at the bank (where my paranoia lies). I mean, even my bank advises I pay Valve back directly instead of having to deal with them (the bank) for any consequences that may form from paying back the chargeback via affidavit. And yes, my bank advised me of this procedure.

My bank cares about it's customers, so Valve, learn from this example.

And before anyone tosses me any advice, I've been at it for at least half a year now, and according to their site, even if I did follow procedure, it would take half a year anyway for them to delegate if they should revive me anyway. Assholes. And I even explained how this behavior encourages piracy. They didn't budge. Well, at least the person that keeps on getting my messages. I might have to start a new thread asking for alternative methods instead of reviving the old thread about how to undo. Maybe then they'll listen.

Make matters worse; due to my account being disabled, I can't properly uninstall all the games I already installed while I was active.

I go the course of piracy, apparently no consequence. I go legit, and this crap happens. Justice isn't justice if it punishes it's abiders or repentful.

At least I have some games I can revive, but only because I have the keys I bought, and I can install the games via ISO.

Sounds like you have a really, really incompetent bank

[Sowelu]

I have actually never had it crash on me. Ever. The games can occasionally crash but that's hardly Steam's fault

Also:  Steam has made me into an honest games consumer.  I buy games now.

[Myroc]

In my opinion, Steam's benefits more than make up for it's disadvantages. It also makes me buy games more often, as I'm a lazy person and would rather buy games via internet (takes a couple of minutes) than to take the bus into town to purchase a hard copy (takes at least an hour).

[Mono124]

I don't really like steam simply because I am banned. I was playing happily one day, and boom, keylogger got me. I didn't realise it till a few days later, but when I went to change my password I was too late. When I finally convinced them that I was the account owner, I log on, change the password, and play some counter strike (this was BEFORE Half Life 2 was out...) and..... you have been banned for hacking. I talk to the steam people, and even though they had logs that showed that I was talking to them in St. Louis and my account was being accessed China and hacking, they wouldn't unban me.

[Soulwynd]

Steam is DRM, they don't give a fuck about you.

I reported a bug with steam, it took them over 30 days to talk back to me and they told me to add a command line to source games...When the bug... had... nothing... to do with... source games... (I feel I have to talk this slow, due to the fact they're retarded and can't read) Of course it didn't change a thing, the bug was with steam. I replied to them last month, still no answer.

The customer service is retarded and slow to say at best and they will be happy to ban you for absolutely any reason, because they know most banned people will simply make another account and rebuy games.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Ok, I take back that I have only one problem with steam.

1. deathgrip
2. The customer service is in need of brain surgery half the time. It took me sending my product code twice for those robots to pick up on it.

[vonduus]

1. deathgrip
2. The customer service is in need of brain surgery half the time. It took me sending my product code twice for those robots to pick up on it.

This. And

3. Offline mode works fine for about three weeks, but after that Steam seems to must phone home, or die. If you are not on the Internet when Steam feels this urge, then you will not be allowed to play the game you paid for. Which might be allright, if you were told up front, that such is the deal. But you are not, instead you are told that you only have to connect once to register and unlock your game, and from then on you will never ever again be compelled to use Steam. Which is not true: If  Steam has not phoned home after three weeks it gets nervous, refuses to open your games and tells you that it wants to phone home for an update.

I know a guy, who is in Afghanistan right now, Internet is crappy there, so he cannot always access his Steam only games. I know another guy, working in the Balkans, where Internet also is not always up to American standards, he likewise cannot access his Steam only games. And then I know me, who wanted to have another go at Empire Total War the other day, but because I had forgot to pay for my internet account, I was not allowed to  play the game I already paid for, Steam refused to start. And as ETW is Steam only, well...

Ok, most people have good connections and are online 24/7, to them Steam is no problem. And because it works seamlessly for them, some of those people somehow believe that all who complain about Steam must be stupid. They are like Marie Antoinette, who didn't understand all the fuzz about people starving because they could not afford to buy bread: Why don't they just eat cake?

Luckily we have indie games. I can heartily recommmend AIWar Fleet Command and, of course, Dwarven Fortress.

[head]

There are ways to circumvent that. in a semi legal fashion since if you use it with games already own your not really breaking the law.

[Soulwynd]

[SHAD0Wdump]

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*Foams in mouth*