Steam

[Jon855]

Steam : The software used to launch applications such as Half-Life 2 and so on forth.

 

[Patt]

Good.

 

[jfall]

It has worked ok for me

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Patt
Good.

 

[scorpmatt]

It burns, that is all

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Its good now (although by good I mean working, right now they've made it more bulky and its still kind of annoying), but I can't vote good because I remember how much hell I used to go through just to play CS. And I mean hell. I can't forgive that. Some of you might remember what I'm talking about. So I have to vote bad.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: jfall
It has worked ok for me

 

[imported_LoKe]

Bad. It shouldn't be mandatory. ****** crap.

 

[clamum]

Never have had a problem with it.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Bad. It shouldn't be mandatory. ****** crap.

exactly. not to mention its infinitely slower than what it used to be!

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Patt
Good.

 

[Trevelyan]

Good:
-Easy game updating/patching
-Instant purchasing and installing (since preloading is usually an option)
-Lower cost and higher profit for developers
-Lets developers release games on their own without a publisher (*cough* EA sucks *cough*)

Bad:
-Unreliable and sometimes inaccessible offline mode
-Game ownership is somewhat questionable (nearly impossible to resell games--especially if you own multiple games under one Steam account)
-Could set a bad precedent, allowing developers to release half-finished games and slowly release content (think CS:S and DOD:S)



I vote good, since I like what I have seen so far. I could easily change my vote to Bad though if there are abuses to the kind of market Steam has created.

 

[shilala]

Where's the "sucks the pipe" option?
Where's Nik?
Could someone please holler repost?
WTF is this place coming to!?!?!?!????

 

[TallBill]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=33&flcache=4484135&entercat=y

wrong forum

 

[scorpmatt]

R
E
P
O
X
Y

 

[Slimline]

There was already a post regarding steam this afternoon...to lazy to link. Teh search will find it.

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: Slimline
There was already a post regarding steam this afternoon...to lazy to link. Teh search will find it.

oddly enough both threads were next to each other on the main page a few minutes ago

 

[shilala]

Thanks guys.
I feel much better now.

 

[dartworth]

I was welding on a steam system last week...

 

[Litchfield285]

I love it, and if they ever get the frieds lists working again, it'll be perfect.