First off, that "Section" on steampowered.com just came about. What about everyone who was using HL before it was really publically known that you had to purchase special copies.. who were we going to ask?
VALVe's site doesn't have much info on it many years ago. I remember looking when I first helped open the store... Have you viewed the Cafe Discussion, it has alot more in-depth information on how much VALVe doesn't really freaking care about the centers.
You can't use STEAM in a Cafe enviroment unless you remove it after every single user logs off, which makes it worthless to even be there. http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php? threadid=77674
In general, users can use their Steam accounts for personal use (non-commercial) at multiple locations (e.g. logging in at a cybercafé they may occasionally use or using it on their work computer and home computer). In short, the portability of a user's Steam account does not mean that commercial establishments like cybercafés can exploit our games without a license whether it be a tournament or pay for play. If indeed a user installs Steam on a cybercafé computer to access their account, you could allow an activity like this, but you would be required to erase the copy of the Valve products after that user logged off the system (through a program like DeepFreeze or the like) just like any other software that is installed by a customer that you do not have a license for.
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Amen brother, I hope it goes well for you.
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I'm still suffering, I mean there's about 4 kids right now playing CS in-store.
First off, that "Section" on steampowered.com just came about. What about everyone who was using HL before it was really publically known that you had to purchase special copies.. who were we going to ask?
VALVe's site doesn't have much info on it many years ago. I remember looking when I first helped open the store...
Have you viewed the Cafe Discussion, it has alot more in-depth information on how much VALVe doesn't really freaking care about the centers.
most of us dont get bennies.
:P
I've been with this company since it started, and yet I have to see health-insurance.
I'm not complaining though, I have 2 T1's and 40 machines at my disposal
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php
This is for UK people only ::
Call 0800-032-2101 and select option 2 for Support.
Explain to the engineer that you have typed in an non-existant domain name and
been directed to their sitefinder service.
Explain that you have read the "Terms of Use" and do not agree to abide by
them.
Explain that, as you don't agree to the ToU, you are explicitly forbidden from
using their service.
Ask them to exclude your IP block from those that will be given the sitefinder
IP rather than NXDOMAIN.
Give them your name, company (if appropriate) and a contact telephone number.
Thanks to Martin Brooks and NANOG for the info!