Steam Interface
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I'd rather it were a little more customisable, for example being able to separate titles into user-defined subgroups (eg. HL1 mods, HL2 mods, demos), hide specific titles completely, and so on, but otherwise I'm a big fan of the way Steam (and digital distribution as a whole) is headed. Now all I need is my favourites and my friends list to work. 
Blazkowicz
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the server browser integration is nice.
I miss the good old HL / CS 1.5 police though, and I'm used to the good old console in CS. (but in DoD I don't care, I began playing DoD one year ago, on Steam)
there should be a way to change the fonts, without editing the trackerscheme.res file (which never even worked for me)
I really hated Steam though when I was under windows 98 (till 2005), because it used a lot of GDI resources (if you used firefox < 0.8 under win98, when it was called firebird and it had a GDI leak unless you changed a setting in about:config, you know what I mean) ; and as irritating, copy/paste didn't work! (great when a friend gives you the IP on MSN)
I actually was on IRC channels the night it came about, have a steam ID of about 2400, and would have had a lower one if I didn't wonder for 5 or 10 minutes if it was real or a CD key thief. I could join a game first time, then it worked once in 20 or 100 times, then I couldn't for weeks or monthes, then it was also once every 50 times... no problem to join about a year later though when I tried it again. (in the mean time I played CS 1.5 and still played it till last year on nowon servers)
now that I'm on 56K I didn't even tried it. (I still have the steam directory with the cache files, but there would be the steam updates anyway, and I don't know if I can play anyway, on CS 1.5 nowon server I can't play at all because of lag no matter the settings)
I miss the good old HL / CS 1.5 police though, and I'm used to the good old console in CS. (but in DoD I don't care, I began playing DoD one year ago, on Steam)
there should be a way to change the fonts, without editing the trackerscheme.res file (which never even worked for me)
I really hated Steam though when I was under windows 98 (till 2005), because it used a lot of GDI resources (if you used firefox < 0.8 under win98, when it was called firebird and it had a GDI leak unless you changed a setting in about:config, you know what I mean) ; and as irritating, copy/paste didn't work! (great when a friend gives you the IP on MSN)
I actually was on IRC channels the night it came about, have a steam ID of about 2400, and would have had a lower one if I didn't wonder for 5 or 10 minutes if it was real or a CD key thief. I could join a game first time, then it worked once in 20 or 100 times, then I couldn't for weeks or monthes, then it was also once every 50 times... no problem to join about a year later though when I tried it again. (in the mean time I played CS 1.5 and still played it till last year on nowon servers)
now that I'm on 56K I didn't even tried it. (I still have the steam directory with the cache files, but there would be the steam updates anyway, and I don't know if I can play anyway, on CS 1.5 nowon server I can't play at all because of lag no matter the settings)
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Blazkowicz
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Fodder said:I'd rather it were a little more customisable, for example being able to separate titles into user-defined subgroups (eg. HL1 mods, HL2 mods, demos), hide specific titles completely, and so on, but otherwise I'm a big fan of the way Steam (and digital distribution as a whole) is headed. Now all I need is my favourites and my friends list to work.
the Friends is still broken?
(it worked when I could at least use steam but later was fucked up)
that's ridiculous, if valve can't get their feature right after so many years, why not drop it.
I'm glad I didn't have problems with favorites, did they fuck it up too?
I don't like steam, either as implemented or as a concept. I don't like it has to start a network app just to launch a game I want to play. I don't like that it sucks CPU like a crazy mad person during some sections of the handshaking/data transfer period. I don't like the UI, such as that the default tab of "my games" is the BUY NEW GAMES and not the tab where it lists the ones I actually have installed. Or that the list of installed games also - "helpfully" - lists the games I happen to not have paid for yet...
Steam sucks.
Steam sucks.
Guden Oden said:
Completely agree. Sometimes Steam goes bonkers and uses all cpu time on one of my dual cores. That, and the slow startup time, the massive memory footprint and the *useless* server browser makes it an nuisance in general.
The only redeeming feature is that all you have to do after a reinstall is to download the 600KB installer, log in and double click on your already purchased games to download and install them again.
IMO Valve should have hired UDP-Soft to make Steam (the people who wrote All-Seeing-Eye and more). Finns with coding skills.... Hard to beat.
Cheers
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Blazkowicz_ said:
My Favorites started working about a week ago .. haven't had problems since.
I like the interface .. but ye pity it ain't customisable.
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i haven't played BF2 since 2 patches ago (about a month before) because i can't be bothered to dig up the disc. i'm incredibly lazy.Fodder said:
i like steam in concept, hate most of the interface, and have the fact that it's a resource whore. but it's cool that i never have to look for my HL1/2 disks ever again. the sad thing is, i don't really like hl or hl2.
