Ah well that does suck balls.
I bought multiple copies of Half Life so that I could kick the hell out of my GF's kids both on LAN and online. When valve killed WON, it was a minor inconvienence because we could still play CS 1.5 on the lan, but CS 1.6 requires Steam and It pisses me off to no end.
When I found out that Steam would be required for HL2, even for single player I decided to not buy it,(just for good measure) EVER.
No one is disputing that Valve can do whatever they want with their software and because of their decision I have decided not to buy it.
That's 3 copies that they didn't sell to me alone.
You know I get a little bit frustrated when I see people shouting and using words like NEVER too many times in a posting. Look, Steam may have its problems, but as someone who used it everyday for 6 months while making a Source mod, I really don't see the problems that you are talking about.
Maybe once a week I would have to wait a few minutes for it to do "something", but other than that, Steam was actually a great way to access all of the dev programs in Source plus test different versions of our game. That and take a CS break now and then.
The idea that this is some great intrusion on your privacy or whatever is just ludicrous.
The software works: it allows them to automatically update the game, send me news about shit they want me to buy (which sometimes I actually want to), send me news about free shit, and generally sits nicely in my tray, doing absolutely nothing 99% of the time.
The observation brings into doubt the theory stating that planets form from the dust orbiting around a single sun.
Ok how many planets have we actually found out there? Considering how huge the whole thing is I'd say anything new that's found has the possibility of bringing theories into doubt.
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Ah well that does suck balls. I bought multiple copies of Half Life so that I could kick the hell out of my GF's kids both on LAN and online. When valve killed WON, it was a minor inconvienence because we could still play CS 1.5 on the lan, but CS 1.6 requires Steam and It pisses me off to no end. When I found out that Steam would be required for HL2, even for single player I decided to not buy it,(just for good measure) EVER. No one is disputing that Valve can do whatever they want with their software and because of their decision I have decided not to buy it. That's 3 copies that they didn't sell to me alone.
You know I get a little bit frustrated when I see people shouting and using words like NEVER too many times in a posting. Look, Steam may have its problems, but as someone who used it everyday for 6 months while making a Source mod, I really don't see the problems that you are talking about. Maybe once a week I would have to wait a few minutes for it to do "something", but other than that, Steam was actually a great way to access all of the dev programs in Source plus test different versions of our game. That and take a CS break now and then. The idea that this is some great intrusion on your privacy or whatever is just ludicrous. The software works: it allows them to automatically update the game, send me news about shit they want me to buy (which sometimes I actually want to), send me news about free shit, and generally sits nicely in my tray, doing absolutely nothing 99% of the time.
The observation brings into doubt the theory stating that planets form from the dust orbiting around a single sun. Ok how many planets have we actually found out there? Considering how huge the whole thing is I'd say anything new that's found has the possibility of bringing theories into doubt.