Don't you just love Steam?

i mean, when was the last time you were not given the option to decide your install destination? i don't know about you, but this is the absolute first time for me in more than 10 years of gaming. by the god, i KNEW there has to be a reason why the entire pc community is kowtowing to this thing like it's the 2nd coming of Jesus -- and i ain't disappointed. :roll:

Sarcasm?

Anyway, i love steam. I honestly wish every single PC game would use it, like xbox games use live. Its also grear for DD which i have just recently started using.

Sarcasm?

Anyway, i love steam. I honestly wish every single PC game would use it, like xbox games use live. Its also grear for DD which i have just recently started using.

Frozzik

[QUOTE="Frozzik"]

Sarcasm?

Anyway, i love steam. I honestly wish every single PC game would use it, like xbox games use live. Its also grear for DD which i have just recently started using.

IMaBIOHAZARD

How we all love steam ^^

I love it. I love it. And yes, i love it.

We should build a shrine. Or better yet, make a union, if someone hasn't done so already.

Steam is the future.

Assuming you seriously don't like Steam --- it simplifies things that you have absolutely no desire for it to, is that the main problem? If so, I can completely understand that point of view, I'm the kind of person that likes to be in control of my games/software also.

Unfortunately, for us, that's the way things are headed. Maybe kind of like the guys in the past that used to enjoy working on their cars themselves, however, today with computerized integration, emission controls, etc the complexity simply doesn't allow it, or not nearly as easily. Some of that "control" has been sacrificed.

At any rate, if you can view Steam primarily as a digital distribution service, understand the importance of digital distribution into the future, and can agree that a service such as gog.com (where games are literally provided to you in a "hands-off" manner) isn't feasible for all games, Steam is not that bad of a thing at all. It's actually a very good (and fair) implementation.

What do you mean? There is an option to tell steam where to install your apps. For instance, all my steam games get installed on my second drive (D:\). And yes, I do like steam. dnuggs40

Because of some complexities involving my Tyan dual-processor server mainboard, my two hard drives are E: and F:. Yes, that's right - I don't have a C: drive.

So if Steam has to install to C:, I guess I wouldn't be installing it. Not sure if that's the case, because I'm not a Steam user yet, but it's programming 101 to specify installation locations.

No, you can specify the installation drive for steam and all the games you download. So it won't be a problem for you. What you can't do, is individually assign games to install on different drives.

For example:

In your case you can have steam install on the E: drive, and all your games will install to that location. However, you can have half the games go to the E: drive, and half go to the F: drive or anything like that.

On a side note, I am pretty sure the developers of steam passed "programming 101"...

Don't you just love Steam?

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Yes, yes in fact I do.;)

I put all my Games go inC:/Games

All I do is put Steam there and every game I download from it Goes right in my Games Folder.

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So, Steam not letting me change the Directory a Problem? Not at all for me.

Always has worked for me...wait...WHAT? another "Steam sucks" topic?...who knew?

I do love steam, actually. It's a nice platform for digital distribution.-MuadDib-

retail or nothing here. i dont trust downloads. if anything happens to it your screwedag3ntz3rox0x

I installed and used Steam for the first time few weeks ago. I bought Audiosurf. And I love the service.

I wish all the games that are available in retail should also come to Steam. I'm looking for more Steam games in future. Steam allows me to buy and play many games that aren't available in my country.

just for example, I love SEGA's football manager series and FM 2009 is already at $30 in Steam, while I could not find even FM2008 in my country. :( Just waiting for sweet $20 mark to grab latest FM2009. :)

Because of some complexities involving my Tyan dual-processor server mainboard, my two hard drives are E: and F:. Yes, that's right - I don't have a C: drive.

So if Steam has to install to C:, I guess I wouldn't be installing it. Not sure if that's the case, because I'm not a Steam user yet, but it's programming 101 to specify installation locations.

Oxilica

I installed and used Steam for the first time few weeks ago. I bought Audiosurf. And I love the service.

I wish all the games that are available in retail should also come to Steam. I'm looking for more Steam games in future. Steam allows me to buy and play many games that aren't available in my country.

just for example, I love SEGA's football manager series and FM 2009 is already at $30 in Steam, while I could not find even FM2008 in my country. :( Just waiting for sweet $20 mark to grab latest FM2009. :)

arijit_2404

I hate steam, and the thing that causes me most grief now that I saw this topic is that, in a week's time, I'd have to register my soulstorm key to steam in order to be able to get into the DoW2 early beta - and there's been reports that it ****s with your registry key so that you can't play soulstorm online, or something like that. F1_2004

One thing I don't like is that if you've already installed a game and then activate it on steam, you have redownload it, to make it use the steam features. Why can't it just tell the games already installed.zanelli

[QUOTE="zanelli"]One thing I don't like is that if you've already installed a game and then activate it on steam, you have redownload it, to make it use the steam features. Why can't it just tell the games already installed.rob1101

[QUOTE="rob1101"][QUOTE="zanelli"]One thing I don't like is that if you've already installed a game and then activate it on steam, you have redownload it, to make it use the steam features. Why can't it just tell the games already installed.Makari

It's ok, but only because of the weekend/holiday sales it has.

It has some problems that annoy me:

1. Can't install steam games on multiple harddrives (stuck having to choose between which game I want on my C: drive)

2. Occasionally get "Game is unavailbe at this time" and patches fail to start downloading until I try to launch the game.

3. Some Steam games can't be modded.

4. Steam games seem to take up more space then if you bought a disk (4 steam games are currently using about 27GBs of space, but I believe this is because steam fails to get rid of all the files when you delete local content).

5. Some of the older, less popular games aren't supported well by steam (Good example: Half-life 1 has known Vista/XP issue that causes the game to crash at a certain point, but Steam still attempts to sell you the game... there's no warning). I always check the steam forums before buying a game on steam to make sure there aren't any major issues (I started doing this after HL).

and there sales are amaing BioShock $5

HOLY SH!T