anyone else stuck with steam saying pending registration?

[otispunkmeyer]

valve oh dear oh dear

surely they had the foresight to know that when this game was released their "steam"- ing pile of cow dung servers would be choked...surely they realised this and put extra measures in place to ensure everyone got playing nicely straight away ive been sat for 30mins with HL2 on the HDD but i can play the dam thing till the G A Y S running steam say ive registered

 

[otispunkmeyer]

not unlocking game files and taking ages at that...man what the hell are they doin...all i want to do, correction all i payed good money todo was play HL2 thats all,

if its for copy protection well whats the point, its gonna get copied at some point, and id rather havve the real Mcoy anyway

 

[HomerSapien]

Mine unlocked fine in about 3 minutes...Too bad i have a test in 3 hours and cant play until 6pm tonight

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i missed a lecture

to see a yellow progress bar....not progress

 

[otispunkmeyer]

some one please tell me

what the hell to do they think they are doing

im stuck on 50% unlocking game files

 

[wnied]

I started downloading last night before I hit the sack, I woke up around 6am to see that it had stopped on 73%. I rebooted the PC, restarted steam and it was up to 85% right before I left for work.

I live close to where I work, so its home for lunch today!
~wnied~