Petition to Valve regarding Half Life 2 and STEAM

[trgbhnhu]

Hy everyone!

A petition to Valve regarding Half Life 2 and STEAM:
http://www.petitiononline.com/cg1d0915/petition.html

Please tell everyone. And don't forget to sign, though!

greetz, Schattenreiter

 

[FISKER_Q]

That's really funny.

 

[frusion]

can u explain in shorter terms?

 

[Doppelgofer]

i'd sign it if it got its facts straight....you do not NEED an internet connection once it has activated. offline mode runs perfectly well on my machine anyhow. what i would agree with is the fact of having to sign onto steam everytime you want to play ...plus the authentication process is way too long.

 

[mr_pink00x]

So you want Valve, to believe you when you say you have no pirated Half Life 2?

That's the entire point of the steam system. If you are able to preload using steam then you can. If you are on 56k, then you are encouraged to buy the retail package as preloading would take a long time.

The unlocking process for me took about 5 minutes on my cable connection. It probably would have taken less, but unlocking servers on Nov 16th were probably extremely busy.

Some of your points seem irrelevant or contradictory. IE: Some players cannot afford an internet connection. My connection is $15 per month, and is extremely stable. Half Life 2 cost me $55 and I bought the retail copy. If someone can put down 60 dollars on a game, then they can sure put down a few more on an internet connection.

Happy Pirating....pirate. :hmph:

 

[Neutrino]

Hy everyone!

A petition to Valve regarding Half Life 2 and STEAM:
http://www.petitiononline.com/cg1d0915/petition.html

Please tell everyone. And don't forget to sign, though!

greetz, Schattenreiter

If you want to make an official petition please atleast use proper grammar. That petition reads like a direct translation. It's aweful.

 

[Blublu]

... that we use pirated copy's ...

And that's when I stopped reading.

 

[Ames]

Online petitions never work. :\

 

[KagePrototype]

we have to identify online on STEAM anytime we want to play the game

Nope, just once on each computer you wish to play it on. Otherwise you don't have to connect at all.

that the server needs minutes, sometimes more than half an hour to identify us as a gamer with a legal copy

You can't wait? You only have to do this once, afterwards you can just stay offline...

people with an 56kb modem need 47 hours to download more than 500MB of game files before one can start a game

What are you talking about? The additional download is tiny. If it was more than 500mb, I'd be as pissed off as you for not knowing.

there is no apparent information on the game package about the extra download time or the need to have an permanent online connection to play (the information about the need for an available Internet connection is well hidden)

It's in the minimum requirements that an internet connection is required. This is like complaining that you can't play it because you don't have a video card.

that users who cannot afford the necessary Internet connection have to use "No CD" cracks, which will allow you to run a game without the Internet connection, and are being pushed into the illegal scene because of that

And where do you get no CD cracks from? Internet sites.

many players cannot start STEAM, and therefore not play the game, because their Internet provider does not support the necessary protocols

Contact your ISP or local It techy, and get them to sort it out. If you explain it clearly, they'll be ok with it. Otherwise, it isn't Valve's fault.

the additional Internet traffic we have to pay to play the game. Since there is always a client running in the background, additional costs can be as high as $30,- a month for players with an 56kb modem

You only have to be online for activation, which will take at most an hour on the slowest connections. And oh no, 30 bloody dollars. I pay £50 a month for my broadband connection

that European customers have to pay twice as much money for the game as other customers around the globe

Huh?

the missing support on the valve-homepage for the problems regarding Half Life 2.

http://www.steampowered.com/

As you can see, they're trying to fix any problems you have.


Honestly, find a phone socket, get a modem (which you should have, pretty much all PCs come with one), and use a free AOL disc.

 

[63]

No thanks.

 

[Alientank]

I think Maddox said it best "they make an online petition, not realizing that no one gives a shit about online petitions"

 

[Zio]

yeah, im not signing it,
I disconnected my cable modem everytime I played so this damn pop up thing wouldn't interfere, and I had 0 problems playing the game offline

 

[Sharrd]

It's aweful.

You messed up that pretty badly.

The Steam platform isn't nearly as bad as they make it out to be. You should've started with sending off an e-mail to VALVe and let them reply to the points made, then make a petition(if you're going to make one). VALVe are reasonable; if you've got good arguments, they'll listen.

 

[Brian Damage]

Online petitions never work. :\

I know of one, one that worked, and that was the "Get HIT Entertainment to put Fraggle Rock on DVD!" petition...

 

[Dan]

We, the customers, do not agree with your indirect in friction, that we use pirated copy's of Half Life 2, or similar games.
It never seems to take long for the latest PC games to appear on file-sharing networks where they become available to anyone with the time to download them and the desire to steal them.
However, we do not want to be put down on the same level as these people. We paid for your game and we do not accept, that,

Hmm, time to go back to grammar class eh?
"indirect in friction", first time I've heard that phrase.
"copy's of Half Life 2" just read it
"not accept, that," I've got to try ending all my sentences that way, that,

 

[Francis_Cole]

know of one, one that worked, and that was the "Get HIT Entertainment to put Fraggle Rock on DVD!" petition...

LMAO!

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I know of one, one that worked, and that was the "Get HIT Entertainment to put Fraggle Rock on DVD!" petition...

Talk about sticking it to the man. :afro:

 

[Raziaar]

I haven't had issues with steam ever since the first day of release. Dunno why you guys do.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I haven't had issues with steam ever since the first day of release. Dunno why you guys do.

For a brief moment during the unlocking process steam crapped up, so in two years of using steam, one problem that was fixed extremely easy after ten minutes of askin around. Doesn't even deserve a 1.2 on the bitchin' scale where a 10.0 is full system crash an no-one can answer why.