MoJo|Night
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Now that the bandwidth problem seems to be subsiding and players are getting games working (I know some of you still have problems) I thought I'd just post a couple of thoughts.
Steam is actually a good piece of software and I quite like CS 1.6.
However I do have a couple of gripes. The bandwidth available for steam was so obviously not going to be enough, did they learn nothing from the beta release day?
And also why the lack of info? Instructions and a help file for steam would have been nice and I shouldn't have had to trawel the net for 2 hours to get the new info for the cs buy scripts. Why didn't they put a readme in the cs install and a help button on the front of steam along with more descriptive messages?
Considering the amount of work put into making steam and updating cs etc along with making hl2 the time it takes to write a readme file and send it to games sites and include it in the install would have been such a big improvement for such a small investment of time.
And the bandwidth was obviously going to be insufficient for the launch of the most popular online game ever to date worldwide in one moment. The cs1.6 beta day showed us that. I know in time hl2 and games like that will require much less bandwidth for day to day use compared to peak release dates but so many people have been irritated and now have a gripe against steam which is not actually at fault. Something could have been done about that surely.
To sum up steam is a massive improvement and helps move people away from the likes of gamespy etc and the stability improvements to the old hl engine look good but the launch was handled badly and does not fill me with confidence for the launch of hl2. Pre-order pre-caching is going to have to happen to stop people having problems with a paid for piece of software and not just a free update which would be a much more serious PR blunder.
Steam is actually a good piece of software and I quite like CS 1.6.
However I do have a couple of gripes. The bandwidth available for steam was so obviously not going to be enough, did they learn nothing from the beta release day?
And also why the lack of info? Instructions and a help file for steam would have been nice and I shouldn't have had to trawel the net for 2 hours to get the new info for the cs buy scripts. Why didn't they put a readme in the cs install and a help button on the front of steam along with more descriptive messages?
Considering the amount of work put into making steam and updating cs etc along with making hl2 the time it takes to write a readme file and send it to games sites and include it in the install would have been such a big improvement for such a small investment of time.
And the bandwidth was obviously going to be insufficient for the launch of the most popular online game ever to date worldwide in one moment. The cs1.6 beta day showed us that. I know in time hl2 and games like that will require much less bandwidth for day to day use compared to peak release dates but so many people have been irritated and now have a gripe against steam which is not actually at fault. Something could have been done about that surely.
To sum up steam is a massive improvement and helps move people away from the likes of gamespy etc and the stability improvements to the old hl engine look good but the launch was handled badly and does not fill me with confidence for the launch of hl2. Pre-order pre-caching is going to have to happen to stop people having problems with a paid for piece of software and not just a free update which would be a much more serious PR blunder.
