Ooks Server wrote:
1 - what would be the best way to get stolen cd keys retrieved?
Buy another copy of Half-Life. Has Valve ever once issued a new CD key? Too many kiddies get banned for cheating and then go cry to Valve for a new key.
The crap will really hit the fan when HL2 comes out and we pay an arm and a leg, only to find that we got hit with a false ban or for some reason need a new key/steamID. "Go pay $60 for another copy" simply is not an acceptable answer. I hope that Valve comes up with some way to address these issues, otherwise the next thing you know there will be a huge class action lawsuit against them in behalf of all of the people who had stolen keys, false bans, etc.
2 - whats up with steam? Been having no end of problems with it today and their forums are down?
I couldn't get in at all last night. If you think this is a circus, wait until HL2 comes out - it will be a friggin' zoo for weeks unless they actually do something different to ensure they have the bandwidth. I hate to be negative, but Valve has not yet been able to handle a major roll out without serious bandwidth problems. Bandwidth costs money - a lot of money - and Valve may be content to have us just wait our turn. They probably think we want it badly enough to put up with crap it takes to get updates during peak bandwidth periods.
You do realize that they increased their bandwith to 8Gb/s for the CS:S pre-load and only used one half of that. When Hl2 release approaches the plan is to increase it another 4Gb/s.
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