Steam Info?

[He@t!]

I havent played CS in a long time so i dont know what is the steam program all about. Can someone what is steam and whats its purpose ?
And when HL2 is released will i have to use steam to play?And will i have to pay to use steam?



Thnx-

 

[Sp00fman]

What does CS has to do with HL2?

plz post in the steam forum

 

[Gorgon]

you can play cs without steam and its bullshit

 

[Combat-Wombat]

You're going to need team to download patches for halflife2 and play it online but its gonna be free.

 

[Jabrim]

Reply:

Steam is basically just an program that streams games, movies and anything else to people who use it or in the future may pay for it.

 

[Epsi]

Steam is many many things. It's a way of streaming games off the internet to make downloading games over the internet a much more viable proposition, it's a tool for more efficient patching (patches can be pushed to clients over the space of say a week and then activated) and allows Valve to make updates to the game whenever they want. It's a way to alter the game content after launch, for example releasing higher-res textures or localising to new languages. It's got inbuilt instant messaging and server browsing which can be used in-game. It provides a new VGUI2 user interface which allows components written in VGUI2 to be used on the desktop, in the in-game UI, and in the case of HL2, in the 3D world.

Basically it's Valve's attempt to add more easy-of-use, features and provide more options to the gamer.

But they stuffed up the launch a little.