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[Detail]

http://www.petitiono...m/petition.html

If you own Half-Life please sign this. Valve has been known for it's community support, i beleve this petition will make a diffrance. Please sign it.

[GaintSura]

Steam has its good sides and bad sides, granted if you have to download an update and are on isdn or 56k its gonna take awhile, but its gonna take awhile if you download it from the net. so it doesnt really matter. The only thing about steam I hate is that it has to update itself every damn time it starts. I'm not really against or for steam. I will keep playin hl the way I do until I can no longer do so.

[Kravvitz]

I like being able to download patches.

Often auto-update programs have not worked for me.

Having to download anything that is more than 20 MB more than once is a very bad setup.

[Detail]

The big thing most people hate is:

To play online you have to have a new Steam ID. You can only get a Steam ID by downloading a whole new copy of HL.

I already have HL and a bunch of mods, but i'll have to re-download them through Steam to play them online. That would take 50 hours, as Steam does not have a resume my 56k can't do it.

[Detail]

:uh:
How?
Share you're knolage with us.

[GaintSura]

you're wrong, you dont have to d/l hl again to play it first off.. secondly it does have resume. Sorry to say detail but you need to get your facts straight before sayin somethin >=\.

[GaintSura]

I have.. you said steam doesnt have resume which it does. and you said that you have to download half-life which you dont need to.

[Detail]

You may not have to download half-life, but you do have to upload you're files so that steam can convert then, then you have to download them. Almost the same thing.

[GaintSura]

nope. you dont. it copies your half-life files from your drive into steam then all you have to do is update half-life/tfc/cs/ect

[Daz]

it copies your half-life files from your drive into steam

That means you have to upload them don't it?
Isn't steam an online thingy.

[divi-dead]

my u/l speed is even slower than d/l <_<

[MuDsHoVeLeR]

you and everybody else =P

so wait, steam isn't going to be required though is it?

I really haven't been paying much attention to this... and here I am working on an HL2 mod... bah

[GaintSura]

so wait, steam isn't going to be required though is it?

OK, lemme explain the steam thing. it copies it from your drive (local) to your steam directory (local) thats all it does, theres no uploading or downloading from the steam servers. The only thing you have to d/l from the steam servers is updates and whatnot.

Steam is not required YET. It will be when Hl2 is released because they are doing away with the WON Servers (the old way of multiplayer). I'm still not sure about how they are gonna go about releasing peoples mods via steam tho. Am gonna try to find out so that I know whats goin on later.

[Detail]

I found some intresting downloads, if thay work i should have my Steam train running soon.

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[Detail]

It's at 80% now.

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[Detail]

88%

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93%

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[Agile]

Seems a lot like the people complaining about Generals. People will always find something to complain about

[GaintSura]

I agree... tho generals isnt all that great.. not enought stuff to play with >=D

[MagicGangsta]

Steam is great.

nuff said.