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joey420
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Yes thats right folks, let's at least give them hell like they hath delivered on us.
My install story (short version)
1. Decided to buy the game on the 17th.
2. Downloaded and paid 54 dollars for the game.
3. Woke up and tried to play hl2 which said it was done dling. It kept hanging on the loading screen.
4. Found out after 3+ hours of forum surfing that I needed to keep steam open because there is a bug that says the game is done dling, when it really isnt'.
5. Finally got hl2 running after it fully dled (decent game, but I paid to get CSS)
6. Tried to play some CSS which says in properties that it is 100 percent done.
7. Couldn't retrieve server list in the game even though I could get it in Steam. Tried to connect to some of the server that I got in the list from steam but it would fail after 4 tries.
8. 3 more hours of forum browsing later I found out it was probably my firewall. I disabled norton all the way, and the firewall in sp2, and it STILL won't work.
9. Tried to go to post a thread about fixing the problem on the official Valve forums, but for almost 24 hours the steam forum's server has been down. (Not very business like for a company that has made over 100 million dollars gross in the last couple days.)
10. Called support # for hl2 and was told that since I bought the game through steam I get no tech support. (something which wasn't explained to me when I purchased through steam.) I would have just gone to the frigging store.
11. Tried to find a support # for valve, realized they only have online help thingy. (Once again not business like for a company that is making this much money off it's "clients")
12. Realized that somewhere along the line the "steam install" (a.k.a. VIRUS) had "eaten" my IE shortcut off my desktop, AND in my IE folder in my cpu, so now I have to run my xp disc and dl all the files that are missing. It also played hell with my email, and has me running outlook express all of a sudden.
Valve is a JOKE :flame:
Steam is a JOKE :flame:
Before you start to flame me as some "newbie" that knows nothing and is just trying to bash the game realize this:
1. The actual game is fun. (although I haven't even tried CSS which is why I bought the package.)
2. I have been in many invite play clans over serveral games. I have tweaked all the .cfgs. Basically I'm very proficient in making games work right when they don't want to.
3. I have had working IE and mail for 2 years through 100+ program installs it has been fine, then I install steam and it messes it all up.
Valve Software
10500 Northeast 8th Street Suite 1000, Bellevue, WA 98004
(425) 889-9642 :flame:
I have already called their billing dept. to notify them that I will be contesting the charge through my bank, hopefully they will just give me a refund. (yeah right, and maybe hell will freeze over)
If you feel the same way I do please take a few minutes of your day to call Valve and give them a piece of your mind, I promise it will only be a fraction of the time it took you to try and work out all the bugs from the install of the Playable virus you just paid over 50 bux for!
My install story (short version)
1. Decided to buy the game on the 17th.
2. Downloaded and paid 54 dollars for the game.
3. Woke up and tried to play hl2 which said it was done dling. It kept hanging on the loading screen.
4. Found out after 3+ hours of forum surfing that I needed to keep steam open because there is a bug that says the game is done dling, when it really isnt'.
5. Finally got hl2 running after it fully dled (decent game, but I paid to get CSS)
6. Tried to play some CSS which says in properties that it is 100 percent done.
7. Couldn't retrieve server list in the game even though I could get it in Steam. Tried to connect to some of the server that I got in the list from steam but it would fail after 4 tries.
8. 3 more hours of forum browsing later I found out it was probably my firewall. I disabled norton all the way, and the firewall in sp2, and it STILL won't work.
9. Tried to go to post a thread about fixing the problem on the official Valve forums, but for almost 24 hours the steam forum's server has been down. (Not very business like for a company that has made over 100 million dollars gross in the last couple days.)
10. Called support # for hl2 and was told that since I bought the game through steam I get no tech support. (something which wasn't explained to me when I purchased through steam.) I would have just gone to the frigging store.
11. Tried to find a support # for valve, realized they only have online help thingy. (Once again not business like for a company that is making this much money off it's "clients")
12. Realized that somewhere along the line the "steam install" (a.k.a. VIRUS) had "eaten" my IE shortcut off my desktop, AND in my IE folder in my cpu, so now I have to run my xp disc and dl all the files that are missing. It also played hell with my email, and has me running outlook express all of a sudden.
Valve is a JOKE :flame:
Steam is a JOKE :flame:
Before you start to flame me as some "newbie" that knows nothing and is just trying to bash the game realize this:
1. The actual game is fun. (although I haven't even tried CSS which is why I bought the package.)
2. I have been in many invite play clans over serveral games. I have tweaked all the .cfgs. Basically I'm very proficient in making games work right when they don't want to.
3. I have had working IE and mail for 2 years through 100+ program installs it has been fine, then I install steam and it messes it all up.
Valve Software
10500 Northeast 8th Street Suite 1000, Bellevue, WA 98004
(425) 889-9642 :flame:
I have already called their billing dept. to notify them that I will be contesting the charge through my bank, hopefully they will just give me a refund. (yeah right, and maybe hell will freeze over)
If you feel the same way I do please take a few minutes of your day to call Valve and give them a piece of your mind, I promise it will only be a fraction of the time it took you to try and work out all the bugs from the install of the Playable virus you just paid over 50 bux for!
