Or be quick enough to press cancel when it's loading up :P But if you have an internet connection it loads up in about 1 second flat for me.
"I don't want to rant about steam, but the above statment is imho a pretty lame excuse" As was most of the above posters points. Valve might have a teeny bit of influence but with most games the publisher gets the final say with any physical packaging. On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:02:54 +0100, S. Hendriks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for offline mode, if you have been online before with it. You should > be able to go offline. In fact, all you need to do is have NO internet > connection. > > =============================================== > Stefan Hendriks > FunDynamic & RealBot > http://www.fundynamic.nl > http://realbot.bots-united.com > http://www.bots-united.com > > =============================================== > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Ben Davison > Verzonden: woensdag 26 januari 2005 14:57 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Re: Re[2]: [hlcoders] Steam: Technology failure > > > "Why? Let's talk here, because it seems that there is no other > "official" place where we can talk about that." > > www.steampowered.com > > "Packaging is poor - discs are in envelopes, they are just useless > without Steam and there is even no manual!!! What a shame." > > Vivendi's area of concern not valve. > > "Why they had to make retail version to work only with Steam? If people > buy retail it means that they do not want any online activations and > all." > > Windows XP and countless other programs you buy retail and have to > activate it. > > "Steam just refused to work offline," > > See that's funny because every PC I have tried to get steam to run in > offline mode has worked. It's usually the fault of something on the > users part when offline does not work. > > Please take this ranting off this mailing list and on to > www.steampowered.com the steam team does not frequent this mailing list > so there is exactly 0 point in ranting here. > > And for original poster, steam is currently using 0 CPU and 2 megs of > ram, it's not just a gui steam acts as an interface for a virtual > filesystem aswell. > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:09:15 +0200, Vyacheslav Djura > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello knighthk, > > > > Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 1:27:22 AM, you wrote: > > kgn> Okay now this is definately off-topic. Let's not have a > > kgn> steam-flame here, please.. > > Why? Let's talk here, because it seems that there is no other > > "official" place where we can talk about that. > > > > I also think that idea behind Steam is good, especially for us, game > > developers, but Steam itself and Half-Life 2 retail packaging are just > > > awfull and this is a negative feedback to Valve and Sierra. Packaging > > is poor - discs are in envelopes, they are just useless without Steam > > and there is even no manual!!! What a shame. > > > > Why they had to make retail version to work only with Steam? If people > > > buy retail it means that they do not want any online activations and > > all. > > > > Our team has decided to cancel HL2 port of Decay and do only HL1 port > > because of Steam because Steam just refused to work offline, though we > > > have followed every step of Valve's instructions. Interesting that I > > wrote several times to official Steam support, wrote to forums and ask > > > a question and still received no reply and that happened 3 weeks ago. > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > -- > - Ben Davison > - http://www.shadow-phoenix.com > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- - Ben Davison - http://www.shadow-phoenix.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
