Hey buddy, i had the SAME problem...the busyness won't go away!! You have to get the file from some1 else - thats what i just did and it works fine!! If you have a messenger or an Email, i can send you the 30meg file, its seriously just one and its called
half-life 2 deathmatch.gcf 48.2 MB (50,559,980 bytes)
and if you need any other proof that i'm not trying to send you some kind of worm...talk to me...lol i'm just trying to help...cuz steam sucks!!
there's an answer to this on www.steampowered.com. i think you close steam, delete clientregistry.blob and restart it, but DON'T quote me on that without checking
i think you'll find steam sucks a lot less if you bother to SEARCH their support pages!
With this issue their support pages does suck. There is no solution in their support pages that stops this issue. I am having the same issue trying to download Ep2 and so far I have gotten nothing but silence from the support staff.
