Hello Ben, Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 3:57:16 PM, you wrote: BD> www.steampowered.com Please be more careful reading my letter - I told you that we HAVE TRIED several times and they just ignored us. The only thing I received (3 or 4 weeks ago) was some letter "your question is in the queue for answer" and still no reply. Not telling that I've used steampowered.com to find out what's wrong with HL2 because everything was red in game - again, no answer.
I work in game industry and know people from another companies (who also might read this letter) and they all agree that idea of Steam is great, but Steam itself is a big problem. Let's just imagine, what will be with all those people who have purchased Half-Life 2 if Valve would decide suddenly to quit game business? Who will play Half-Life 2 then? No one. BD> Vivendi's area of concern not valve. Stefan already wrote you regarding this. BD> Windows XP and countless other programs you buy retail and have to activate it. A lot of PC's are sold with already installed Windows XP and those who can't reinstall it usually call to some service center. As for "countless other programs" I haven't seen any. And hey, I am not a noob who found link to this mailing list today and just decided to write here, I work with computers as long as I remember myself. BD> See that's funny because every PC I have tried to get steam to run in BD> offline mode has worked. It's usually the fault of something on the BD> users part when offline does not work. It worked for 2 or 3 weeks. We have followed all the steps in Valve Steam FAQ, we have made backup of .blob file. BD> And for original poster, steam is currently using 0 CPU and 2 megs of BD> ram, it's not just a gui steam acts as an interface for a virtual BD> filesystem aswell. We also had such CPU usage of your lovely Steam on every our PC. You love your Steam so much, but there are so many other people who don't like it. I can tell you that as admin of http://www.hl2source.com who receives a lot "positive" feedback about Steam. -- Best regards, Vyacheslav mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
