This post is totally off. People don't know what's good for them. As Steam matures people will be forced to use it and they WILL like it. You have to remember 78% of the people out there are idoits and don't know what is going on. Steam will be shoved down their throats and over time they will...
indeed... most people will be lured into the online parts of the game and want to play longer.
But sure, some will play the game and beat it within a month and quit renting it.. but that will be a very small percentage :x
It will lessen the strain on the servers if HL2 is sent to you a week before to avoid the rush.
But I guess this means if there is no preloading on September 23rd, HL2 isn't coming out the 30th? :o
Um... this has been done before. Nothing new. This is very unimpressive. More has been done.
Please post these on a skinning website. I'm already sick of people posting their Steam skins.
Link:
http://steamskinners.jbdubbs.com/
Pretty please people go there and post about skins...
Now is a good time to tell people NOT to post their own skins. Anyone can change color files in a text file. Please keep them to yourself unless you do something besides change colors/font/icons :P
80 threads about "LOOK AT MY SKIN I CHANGED THE COLROSL!@!!" = bad :/
also Fragmaster said:
"Unfortunately, I feel very confident in saying that there is no way Half-Life 2 is coming out September 30th. Not through Steam, not through anything. And it's not going to be just a week or two late either. We don't even think Valve knows for certain when the game is...
This is true... the fact that it seems like everyone (or at least quite a few) people from Valve are working 24/7 on Steam kinda implies another big project is already off their shoulders....
And I wouldn't worry about Steam. 99% of the problems everyone has had with Steam was because lack of...
I suggest.
Download 500k install.
When you install, ONLY checkmark the mods you have. This way it will use most of the content you already have.
Then right click on each game, go to properties, and select "Always keep this game up to date" (This could freeze Steam for a minute, but...