For the record, I think it's way cool that with Steam, I can go to any workstation and log into and play my account. If I loose my install disks or CD key, so what? Refore my hard drive, big deal, don't have to go hunting for cd and key, so long as I remember my login. Steam today is nice and for the most part works very well. But at first it was pure shinola...
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Suggestion for VAC2. > Isn't Valve (and many many other companies) good at that? After all, who > wanted Steam? Valve. And only Valve. Everyone else said, no, don't do it. > Granted it's a lot more mature now then it used to be, but half of the > problem with Steam in the early days of Steam is that it was not very > reliable. Actually, the first non-beta releases really sucked. And they > *still* haven't fixed the clientregistry.blob issues, I can't tell you how > many times I've had to physically delete that file to fix this or that > problem. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Deadman Standing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:01 PM > Subject: RE: [hlds] Suggestion for VAC2. > > > > Hmm, currently according to steam: > > > > Hl1 users online: 113,000+ > > Hl1 Servers online: 55,700+ > > > > Source users online: 49,000+ > > Source Servers online: 19,400+ > > > > It is always a good business model to piss off the majority of your > > customers (2.3 times more hl1 players). > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mason > > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:27 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [hlds] Suggestion for VAC2. > > > > Hopefully VAC2 will work ONLY for Source games and ONLY on secure > > servers. I > > would love to have one single focused platform which Valve continually > > updates instead of them trying to half-ass support everything out there. > > Let's move forward with Source and make secure servers the place to > > play! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
