Has Steam ever screwed you over?
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I've gotten hacked and lost my games and friend's list before. But I suppose thats hackers screwing me not steam. They gave me my games back good, at least... other than that, I bought ARMA II for like $50 about a day before it went on sale for like $25 so I know that pain. Once again, though, not really their fault.
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WrongSprite said:There's a massive timer next to all the daily reductions...just a helpful thought!
But as far as I can tell, it doesn't tell you the duration of the offer on the specific game's store page. I wish it would, it makes it a bit confusing and I have to check the front page to see if it's part of the one-day sale, and still not be 100% sure that I've completely understood which sale is which. It'd be so such simpler if, on each specific game's store page, next to where it says "50% off" or whatever, it should say how long for. It'd make things so much simpler.Chicago Ted said:
This gripe applies to all Steam sales, not just the current one. It seems like such a glaring omission.
OT: No, I find Steam to be pretty awesome. It has frustrated me in the past when game downloads have frozen (which are a fairly major component of the whole Steam concept, I think you'll agree) but that seems to have been fixed.
Sometimes games fail to launch, but usually I just restart Steam and they work again.
Also, using Windows 7, when I open Steam, for some reason it decides that its window should open behind all other windows that are currently open, so I have to go through and minimize them all in order to get at Steam.
Nope. The only time Steam has come close was when I was locked out of my account, but it turned out that it was stolen. I reported it and got my account back.
Yes, I cant even play tf2 or portal anymore. Just starts it up, shows the valve guy, then stops. Horrible.
http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9354Rusty Bucket said:
seems that it's a corrupt save file... i had the same problem... I hunted down the save folder and killed the corrupt one... then it worked fine with the mods I had.
Ah man! That sucks! Happend to me once, but flights to England. The price went up over ?50 over night!! I was mad cause I could noty afford to go and see my g/f. She was maaaaaaaaaaaad!PsychoticForesight said:
Anyhoo, back OT. Just once. I, on the whole, really like Steam. However, I did by the new Riddick game in a sale at Christmas, and I never got it to accept the cd code.
Never had any real problem with Steam, though I've only been using it for a few months now, myself. I did have one problem downloading Team Fortress 2, but that was more my fault than Steam's. The download was all aces for the first two hours, but as it closed in on the final 500mb, my download limit capped out, and the speed dropped to 2-3kbps...
And thus I didn't play Team Fortress 2 until about thirteen hours after I had purchased it. Oh joy. Occasionally Steam likes to reminisce about that download, and makes me wait forever for the game itself to load up.
At least Jedi Academy works.
And thus I didn't play Team Fortress 2 until about thirteen hours after I had purchased it. Oh joy. Occasionally Steam likes to reminisce about that download, and makes me wait forever for the game itself to load up.
At least Jedi Academy works.
The vast majority of these "steam" problems are with the game, the purchase method outside of Steam, or a user error, it seems.
Personally, Steam has been wonderful. It did the exact opposite of screw me over recently by making my games mac-native, so I don't have to go through Wine any more.
Personally, Steam has been wonderful. It did the exact opposite of screw me over recently by making my games mac-native, so I don't have to go through Wine any more.
re: changing in the middle of the day, as far as I know Steam changes their offerings at the same time every day, so it just depends what timezone you're in whether it'll be the middle of the day or midnight or whenever.
OT, no it hasn't screwed me over, although the voice chat is sometimes a bit useless. But I generally wait until stuff comes on special to buy it anyway.
OT, no it hasn't screwed me over, although the voice chat is sometimes a bit useless. But I generally wait until stuff comes on special to buy it anyway.
Not really. I quit Left 4 Dead until Left 4 Dead 2 came out because my friends all got their Survival mode patches done quickly while mine kept fucking up and they played without me, so I got fed up with always being left behind (This also happened with the TF2 class updates, we would all achievement farm together) but that's not much of a screw over.
Nowadays I'm always the first one done despite having a dated computer while my friends have computer that can run Crisis on High settings. Not sure how that works, but whatever.
Nowadays I'm always the first one done despite having a dated computer while my friends have computer that can run Crisis on High settings. Not sure how that works, but whatever.
i think that Steam should announce that they will have an upcomimg sale. Like give it a weeks notice or so. But just don't say what games go on sale. maybe people will be more cautious then.
I got Killing Floor for 10 bucks at a sale, only to have them have ANOTHER sale a week later for 5 bucks.
I pre-ordered Magic: the Gathering because I always wanted to try out the card game without wasting money on cards. Despite my system meeting all the requirements, the game crashes on start up, saying I don't meet the required specs. Steam refused to give me a refund and simply pointed me to complain to the developers. Of course, it's been over a month and the developers still didn't patch it.
I hate Steam's no refund policy. If it doesn't work on your computer when the game's page says it should, then you should get a refund. If you bought the game any other way and it didn't work, you could return it and get a refund.
I pre-ordered Magic: the Gathering because I always wanted to try out the card game without wasting money on cards. Despite my system meeting all the requirements, the game crashes on start up, saying I don't meet the required specs. Steam refused to give me a refund and simply pointed me to complain to the developers. Of course, it's been over a month and the developers still didn't patch it.
I hate Steam's no refund policy. If it doesn't work on your computer when the game's page says it should, then you should get a refund. If you bought the game any other way and it didn't work, you could return it and get a refund.
I tried that, it didn't work. Setting a command line argument to only run it on one core didn't work either. I think I tried 4 or 5 fixes suggested by the steam forum and they all failed.Crazzee said: