Rather farfetched reasons if you ask me. And my point is that there are far too many other features which could be more beneficial to all players.
Speaking of your download speed, 'works fine for me' is not really convincing argument. I have full 100Mbps downloading from P2P networks and never seen anything close on Steam. Especially considering the fact that not all content is available on regional content servers, so I'm limited by the speed of international links. There is life outside of US and EU, you know... On 6/4/09, David Kellaway <david.kella...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > 2009/6/4 Roman Hatsiev <otst...@gmail.com>: >> Sure thing, this is a key issue of Steam. IE is evil so P2P content >> distribution, better server browser and other minor features can wait >> till we finish the holy quest of removing IE dependency from Steam. >> Yeah! > > There's really no need to troll this discussion. There are numerous > reasons why swapping out IE would be a good idea that aren't > "Micro$oft are evil!!" kneejerks: > > - Control over which plugins can be run and at what privilege level > (great for security) > - Guaranteed consistent rendering behaviour > - Increased performance > - More features (like rounded corners via CSS) > - Support for users who don't have IE installed or available on their > PC (they do exist!) > - Easier support for guys running Steam on Wine etc. > > Since Valve don't seem to be doing anything big with the platform or > community right now, this would be a good thing to focus on. P2P is > mostly pointless when Valve have a world-class server network to > handle games (I routinely get 1.2mbps and up from Steam) and custom > content is available from dozens of sources (not to mention FastDL on > servers), and there isn't really anything else I can see that warrants > updating (except maybe giving the server browser more "power user" > features like advanced filtering). > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
