Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Steam, Again -- 8:42 am CST, Update by The Master
Okay, I have GOT to be a sucker (A.T. Hun notes: true). I wasted two hours of my life last night, when I should have been sleeping, downloading the new Steam installers and trying them again. I should have just flushed my entire Valve folder right down the toilet. And here's why:
- They reduced the number of download locations for the steam installer from 4 to 2.
- Now, you can only download from either Fileplanet or Fileshack. That's fine, but they're both subscriber only, and they are NEVER going to keep up with the download demand.
- I finally settled on Fileshack, but it's download system aims to start your download at the average time. So, I got to watch the last minute of my download wait for 10 minutes. Nice job there.
- Finally got the installer, and ran it. It didn't try to import my current valve folders, even though they're still on the HD. Instead, I get to download ALL my HL content from Steam.
- And, finally, this thing is STILL trying to talk to the damn Steam network constantly, and every time it tries, not only does it lock up the Steam application, it also locks up EVERY SINGLE DAMN INTERNET APPLICATION ON MY SYSTEM. ARRRGGGHHH!!!
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