Poll: My rant to Valve about Steam.

[octafish]

For some reason whenever I open Steam, it finishes downloading AudioSurf. I've finished downloading AudioSuft many many times now.

Oh, and re-downloading the intro movies for Dawn of War. I deleted them for a damned reason.

My only real qualm with steam is that I go to the store to buy a game so i have a hard copy. And If' its somehow flagged by steam..it defaults to DL in steam even off the disk.

Ooh, that's happened to me before; how do I stop this infernal behaviour?

Do the obvious [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=installing+from+disc+instead+of+steam&l=1]

 

[QuadFish]

Which very rarely happens, quit whining.

This is such a non-comment... 'Stop whining' is hardly a good solution is it?

Comments like yours pop up whenever there are any criticisms against Steam, even when there are some valid issues that aren't addressed by Valve.

I like how you try to justify issues with Steam with what is essentially 'a lot of people are playing the same game'.

Alright then. You try running a massive network of servers that deliver games to people directly from the internet, develop AAA games and constantly update a client for purchasing games, talking to friends and playing those games so without there being any issues from time to time. I'll wait.

For the great prices they give us, I think bit of tolerance when a bug rears its head is not much to ask.

I do appreciate the difficulty of it (as I wrote in the email), but my gripe is the specific area they went wrong. The game is great, the pre-load was easy and the download went reasonably quickly. What annoys me is that the one area that went wrong to major inconvenience for me was purely a software issue where it decided it suddenly hated a portion of the data. In other words, everything went smoothly except the one thing I should have never had to worry about.

I can see where you're coming from, but that was probably their thoughts to, so maybe they've never looked at, nor expected, any possible issues of the kind you describe.

That's actually pretty insightful of you
I'm pretty satisfied now because the game is completely awesome. I was ready to punch someone about 3 days ago but now I just recall the ending and smile.