Ooks Server wrote: > While this may be true, WON at its worst was never as bad as Steam. > Valve broke one of the oldest rules in the book: "if it ain't broke, > don't fix it". WON wasn't broke, but they still tried to fix it with > Steam. It's a very serious flaw when people can't play games they > paid for because Steam is down (again).....
I'd agree with you if that were the case, but Steam doesn't do what WON did. Well, it does what WON did, but then a lot more, all in order to support their new business and distribution model. WON too had its share of growing pains because I remember getting pissed about not being able to play a game I had paid money for when it was down. But what it comes down to though, is that we're talking about multiplayer games (those who can't play CS:CZ or HL itself have a different and legitimate beef), and multiplayer games are subject to the peculiarities of this medium. If it isn't WON, Steam, or cheaters, it could be our own connections preventing us from playing. This isn't console gaming where things work out of the box 100% of the time, and the roadblocks that have prevented me from playing happen seldom enough that I can forgive 'em and keep coming back. I won't deny you that the outages are annoying. I've tried about a dozen times to get on my servers today to no avail. I'll take this multiplayer platform any day though, to the crap that battle.net and its kind have setup. -- Tim _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
