Steam

[Bullybeef]

Hi This might be in the wrong place if so sorry. Had to reload Skyrim from steam told it will take 2 hours 45 mins; to download.

To me this shows just what joke steam really is. PC running is an Acer Aspire. As this happened to anyone else out there.

Cheers Bullybeef.

[tetradite]

Hi This might be in the wrong place if so sorry. Had to reload Skyrim from steam told it will take 2 hours 45 mins; to download.

To me this shows just what joke steam really is. PC running is an Acer Aspire. As this happened to anyone else out there.

Cheers Bullybeef.

 

Dunno about downloads but for about the last week it's taken nearly 5 minutes for me to connect to Steam and launch a game. And the number of times lately I get "This game is not currently available" is beyond a joke. Why is it unavailable? I paid for it, I have the files on my PC damnit run it!

 

Steam is getting close to driving me to find a cracked copy of a game I've already paid for a legitimate copy of.

 

(DISCLAIMER: This post in no way condones or encourages piracy. I have a legal copy and would not encourage anyone to pirate any software ever under any circumstances. I'm just saying that Steam is currently the one thing most likely to make me into a pirate, if I were ever to become one).

[Staind716]

Yep. Steam sucks. I despise having to use it for anything. I didn't buy freaking Steamrim. Doing a reinstall now from my disk and I am still going to have to wait a stupid amount of hours just to download the high res texture pack that sucks so bad I'm just going to overwrite it with better ones. According to Steam it's going to take 9 hours for this. What a joke. :wallbash:

[SubjectProphet]

Steam is legal spyware that is filled with money-wh********s. Never liked the service, and only use it for Skyrim.

[tetradite]

In balance, even if the d/l is slow I do like getting games without bothering to leave the house or wait for postal delivery. But that's it. That is the only actual benefit of Steam as an end-user. Everything else is a benefit to Steam, not me.

 

EDIT: and even that could be browser based, or use a much more discrete, non-resource hogging program.

Edited May 9, 2012 by tetradite

[RedRavyn]

@ tetradite: Have you thought about running Skyrim with Steam offline? I do that and there's no wait for a connection, verification, and all the other (in my opinion, shady) things that Steam does when you connect with it online. My game loads right up and I'm playing within just a few seconds.

 

For what it's worth, though, if the next ES game is linked to Steam I will NOT buy it. Period. I've had it up to my eyeballs with Steam and its shenanigans, and any developer who chooses to make us install third party spyware that forces broken patches on us even with auto-update disabled doesn't deserve my patronage.

 

And to Bethesda, assuming anyone who works there actually reads anything on this forum, the use of Steam is probably the one thing that will MOST contribute to piracy of Skyrim, because Steam is probably the biggest aggravation that Skyrim players have with the game. You all shot yourselves in your collective foot when you made the asinine decision to tie Skyrim to this badly-broken and, in my opinion, highly suspect third party software. My guess is than in a year or so those of us PC users who play Skyrim using a legitimately-purchased copy will be in a vast minority, and many, if not most of the majority will be using pirated copies so they don't have to deal with the annoyances of Steam. What you're doing is encouraging the piracy of your games (thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy) and punishing those of us who actually support you by buying your products. Now, in your infinitesimal wisdom, you can point to piracy as the reason for Steam, while ignoring Steam as one of the reasons for Piracy. Way to go

[Staind716]

In balance, even if the d/l is slow I do like getting games without bothering to leave the house or wait for postal delivery. But that's it. That is the only actual benefit of Steam as an end-user. Everything else is a benefit to Steam, not me.

 

EDIT: and even that could be browser based, or use a much more discrete, non-resource hogging program.

Lol. Yeah, except for the fact that I could drive to the store, buy the game, have dinner, go to a movie and STILL have time to kill before this stupid download is done. I know it's not quite as long for some games but we're only talking a few gbs for the high res pack. Ridiculous. I despise Steam with every fiber of my being. Thank god I don't have to use their crappy joke of a workshop to get my mods anyway.

[TheBestIdiot122]

The only thing that I have against Steam is the anti-hack process they have, and there way of "Banning" people, you could lose your account for more then 2 weeks... 2 WEEKS, before they either say: Here's your account credentials or Sorry, we can't help you. Have you bought every single game through Steam? Tough luck! You need a valid store bought CD-key code to show the verification. Has your account been banned? Tough luck! You just lost over 300$ worth of games, (They don't have a ban appeal, and first time offenders are screwed). Grr, and I had to deal with each one of these problems. Edited May 9, 2012 by TheBestIdiot122

[tetradite]

@ RedRavyn

I'm sure I'm just being thick but I can't seem to get offline mode to do anything other than give me messages saying "this game is not available in offline mode". :(

 

@Staind

I don't drive, or I'd probably agree. The wait is better than a public bus round here, trust me. :)

 

 

Just broke a personal record. Switch on PC, try to fire up the CK, TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES to get through "updating Steam" and "connecting account". TWENTY FIVE MINUTES. It's like using a tape-drive Spectrum. All it's missing is the line by line loading screen.

[PsxMeUP]

Grr, and I had to deal with each one of these problems.

Just out of curiosity, what got your account banned?