Is it possible to get rid of steam?

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I did a quick search but I didn't find this topic (which probably exist though)

So is it possible to somehow get rid of that f***ing piece of **** steam
and still be able to play HL? The multiplayer doesn't interest me, and I'd love to get rid of steam, 'cause I really don't have anything good to say about it..

Thanks.
 
No. What exactly is your objection to steam anyway? Since you apparently have 'nothing good to say about it', yet decline to actually say anything about it at all.
 
HL? Just install it from your cd. You'll have to download the patches and stuff manually, but it'll work without Steam.
 
Narvi said:
HL? Just install it from your cd. You'll have to download the patches and stuff manually, but it'll work without Steam.
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Errr - No. Just no.

ANY way of getting HL2 to run without Steam would be illegal. Yes, Steam can be VERY frustrating - especially to people with dial-up - but that's just the way it is.
 
Narvi is right, the original Half-life as said (says HL not HL2) can be installed from the original CD and played without Steam. Obviously the WON network no longer exists so multiplayer won't work, and the patches for HL will be hard to find online. With Half-life 2, it runs only on Steam I'm afraid.
 
Shasta said:
Errr - No. Just no.

ANY way of getting HL2 to run without Steam would be illegal. Yes, Steam can be VERY frustrating - especially to people with dial-up - but that's just the way it is.
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HL != HL2

For any games released post-Steam, you have to use Steam to play, though it's not too bad (I don't see what people's gripes with it are, it used to be so much worse). For other ones, a fresh install from the CD will work, but as WON is defunct they will not have MP support.
 
I beg to differ. I really don't like Steam, it annoys the hell out of me! But I'll put up with it just so that I can play Half-Life 2!
 
Hectic Glenn said:
Narvi is right, the original Half-life as said (says HL not HL2) can be installed from the original CD and played without Steam. Obviously the WON network no longer exists so multiplayer won't work, and the patches for HL will be hard to find online. With Half-life 2, it runs only on Steam I'm afraid.
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Lan works for me =) I play my dad, brother and friend on op4_xendance :afro:
 
Hectic Glenn & Ennui said:
Narvi is right, the original Half-life as said (says HL not HL2) can be installed from the original CD and played without Steam. Obviously the WON network no longer exists so multiplayer won't work, and the patches for HL will be hard to find online. With Half-life 2, it runs only on Steam I'm afraid.
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Correct - my bad. I didn't see that he said HL, not HL2. Right info, wrong game. Ooopsy.
 
Shasta explodes on a regular basis, unlike Chernobyl. :D
 
Chernobyl exploded due to incompetence. Shasta isn't incompetent. :)
 
Ok, well, guess I'm stuck with steam. But like Iron Kat said, the game is so frigging good so it's worth it at the end of the day...

I don't have any Really Good Arguments that you couldn't bring down in seconds against steam, to me it just seems like an unnecessary and annoying obstacle that has to be dealt with for no apparent reason. I guess it has to have some good sides and I give you that I haven't explored it well enough to know about them. That's why I see it as a negative feature.
 
As a gamer vehicle, it's fairly good; from the viewpoint of developers, it's fairly good. if you merely want to play ONE GAME from the whole of the Steam Catalogue then it becomes a bit of an annoyance. But it does force you to keep up with changes so you can play what everyone else is playing...
 
Jintor said:
As a gamer vehicle, it's fairly good; from the viewpoint of developers, it's fairly good. if you merely want to play ONE GAME from the whole of the Steam Catalogue then it becomes a bit of an annoyance. But it does force you to keep up with changes so you can play what everyone else is playing...
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It also beats out the manual download of patches and such. I always hated doing that with HL...looking for the latest patch, hoping it's just not an old patch named incorrectly, looking for good mirrors. Drove me nuts. Then having a central system to hold ALL my games instead of them being sprawled out all over the place isn't bad.
 
I have the same gripe. I really don't need to play anyone online. I have a shaky satellite internet connection with a bandwidth limit and I don't want to waste any of it just to PLAY A GAME I PURCHASED! That and other Big Brother problems aside, the question was: Is there a way to play HL2 without running steam?
 
No. And don't complain about 'rar single player games internet connection'. The internet connection is a required component on the box, and Steam has an offline mode anyway.

And Shasta being deleted has led to weird problems with Hl2.net.
 
BFG9000 said:
I have the same gripe. I really don't need to play anyone online. I have a shaky satellite internet connection with a bandwidth limit and I don't want to waste any of it just to PLAY A GAME I PURCHASED! That and other Big Brother problems aside, the question was: Is there a way to play HL2 without running steam?
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games dont use that much bandwidth btw. no you cant run hl2 without steam.
 
It could be done, but just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should.
 
OK, but I recently tried to play and the webserver couldn't be reached. And I couldn't play the game. There is no way around playing HL2 without launching steam?
 
Why don't you guys like steam, or have any gripes about it? I love it. I can download games onto my computer while I'm sitting on my ass for gods sakes. And **** CD keys, cause if you download off steam you don't need one. :D

And if you do have any CD keys it keeps track of them, or you can send them a High quality photo of your CD key and they'll reactivate it on your account if someone else has it... What's to hate? I don't understand...
ohh yeah, and no cd's. :D
 
Well, satellite internet is the only thing I can get in the sticks, and I have a limit of like 150MB per day or something. But weather steam is a worthy tool or not was not the question asked. The question was weather or not you can get rid of steam. The reason why doesn't matter. I think I've already gotten the answer though. I just thought there was a way to launch the game without being forced into steam.
 
I wish I had cable. I'm stuck with my dad's DSL connection. Better than the old 56k we used to have a long time ago, though.
 
150 megs per day? Poor guy.

Just use the offline mode, they added functionality for it recently. Didn't you read my earlier post?
 
"Is it possible to get rid of steam?"
"Yeah, open the window".

Wit of this level takes me exactly four months.
 
Yeah, everyone's so used to him, having him gone is like having an old friend leave, only without long goodbyes and tears, and more balloons and celebrations.
 
I'm just PO'ed that the thread thinks it has a third page when it clearly does not.

edit: oh wait, now it does.
 
The third page happened to you too? Well, guess I'm not alone then.

Lock thread?
 
Steam is great, I don't see what the problem with Steam is. It is a very useful application, you don't need to download any patches or anything. The only thing I really download for Half-Life 2 is mods (thats all thas needed).
 
If Steam's auto update annoys you use offline mode or tell the individual games not to update.
 
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