STEAM should be Sued for this

I am having this big problem with Steam which makes me think why the hell i should buy real games...

i should just go buy pirated stuff like my friends who enjoy gaming with no problems...all they do is click on the icon and unlike me ..i have to wait soooo long before the stupid Steam app launches. i dont even need it.

I was trying to play CS ..and whenever i try connect to any internet Gaming server it disconnects me and says

***?? i pay u for my games and u screw me? all i want to do is go online and play do some gaming with my friends.

and what do u do? Punish me for using your Service.

Some stupid server issue of theirs and we players have to face it..

why cant they just cut the Steam authentication feature.. why cant i just connect to the server and play without any problem?

Tell me what to do.


for past 1 hour i am unable to play any games nor can i contact any of my friend.

 

well, don't buy from Steam. just buy from retail.

 

Welcome to the club. I have been having this issue usually monthly for the last couple years. It sucks and a combination of time and updating/etc. seems to work. There are numerous descriptions of the problem, but it basically just means wait :/ Steam has so many issues, it is similar to IE6, yet more useless. Good luck and hold in there, once you get on it will all be gravy.

 

You could try and delete the clientregistry.blob file in the Steam folder...that seems to cause a lot of problems

 

To be honest, that's why I only buy games that come on optical media.

 

I rarely have problems with Steam.


So it's ok by me

 

Well i bought from retail a CD ...but the CS series cannot be played online without using Steam.


btw i tried this method on Steam support:

If restarting Steam does not resolve the issue, please exit Steam and delete the following files from your Steam directory:

* Steam.dll
* SteamUI.dll
* ClientRegistry.Blob

 

Same here, nothing but good commendations for STEAM from me.

 

crybaby, go for a jog. You think you have problems? Your lucky all you get to complain about is a video game not working for a while .... /thread

 

Hmm, that sucks that you're having troubles. Personally, I've been using Steam since the beta and have never had any major troubles (I.E. not being able to play one of my games).

 

so because you can't log onto steam one time, you feel the need to bash steam? kinda harsh, considering i've seen you post multiple times on steam / cs oriented threads here, so i assume you've played cs for a while, so a hiccup every now and then should be expected.

anyways... sometimes, i get that error when i reset my router, and i forget to port forward everything again. but yeah, usually that blob file screws around with things. it happens often when steam updates. it's not that big of a deal.

 

No problems for me

 

Don't you know that starving children in China have no DVD's to eat at all?

 

I think that might be server-side issue. I played CS for ~5 years and occasionally receieved that little error. I swear it only came up on 1 server though each time, not all of them. I could be wrong though... I don't really remember.

Steam is great by the way. I want my WONID back though

 

FFS calm down this happens every once in awhile and they probably have in the ToS or something similar that this will happen. You agreed to it, so shut it and be patient.

 

Seriously

It could be an issue with anything to do with your connection.
Play in the sun untill it fixes itself

 

Actually, lately I also have issues.
I cannot play the Orange box without updating steam every time, so basically, I cannot play off line. And updating takes so long, that takes me about 10 minutes to start playing.

 

A whole 10 minutes of not gaming?! What is this world coming to?

 

I had a nasty issue once with Steam on both XP and Vista machines. It wouldn't let me do anything, I kept getting errors. Basically Steam didn't like my Kaspersky so I added it to the exception list and I also had to fiddle with some kind of User permissions in Windows, I can't remember what it was exactly, I found the solution online. But in general I would give Steam a thumbs up.

In all honesty any game/app can give you a headache at anytime for any number of reasons. I have more problems with CS3 than Steam, and frickin CS3 costs ~$2000!!! So quit whining about your $20 game. It's not like you have a deadline and every PSD and TIF file you open or save is automagically corrupted beyond usability by your $2000 software.

 

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I tried to run Deus Ex this morning and no matter what I do it wont go into full-screen mode. When I click the maximize button in the top corner it maximizes and then immediately pops back into a 640x480 window in the corner of my screen. It seems like the problem is the my monitor maintains it's current resolution when the game opens instead of changing to correspond with the game. Whatever it is I'm not sure how to fix it.

 

Tried editing the game's .ini file? http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Legacy:DeusEx.INI

 

u fail because u can play offline without updating steam, simply just "x" the update screen and than play.

I never had any problems with steam ever since it came out. Ohh and pople dont cry about that u cant play CS:S for a few days because there is something outside the virtual computer world.

 

I've never had problems with Steam. Because I never installed it in the first place.

I do however have a problem with Steam as a concept. I don't see why it takes an application to act as a "babysitter" for games when plenty of games can be played online without the need for such an application.

The claim is that Steam games are less likely to be pirated, or something like that, which is total bs.

All Steam does is control the way you play games. And imo that isn't right. You pay for the games, you play the games but at the end of the day it's dictated to you how you play them. Not right if you ask me...

Unfortunately it's a convenient way of playing online and sheep will be led...

 

How is Steam controlling you playing games? And what about all the people that choose to purchase games from Steam because they are in rural areas or just don't want excess packaging that's bad for the environment. And how about the fact that I can log onto ANY computer and install any of my Steam games on it (pending the hardware supports the games) without needing to type in a CD Key or serial #. And how about the fact that sometimes Steam has some pretty sweet deals on games and a library of older titles you may not find on shelves anymore etc etc...

As already been said in this thread. One bad experience does not constitute a Steam bash. Maybe you're also unhappy about the way the Bank controls your money, or the mall controls your shopping habits because they are only open from 9am - 6pm (or whatever).

Yours is such a weak argument.

 

Steam is the online client for Valve multiplayer games like CS:S. It's not only the connection system for multiplayer but, has features such as Anti-Cheat built in as well.

I don't know who made that claim, but your statement makes no sense.

WTH are you talking about? I play Steam games by clicking the game icon. And then I play it like any other game...

You can buy your own server and run that for every multiplayer game you play, but I'll use what the company provides, thank you.

 

I'm sorry but Steam online's mode is certainly its weak point. It just doesn't work for me. And for a lot of other people too. I've tried everything, but it just doesn't work.

 

You may not continue thinking that way anymore once you run into these SecuROM-protected optical discs.

 

Well I'm sorry but I don't like the way you have to (in many cases) install a third party application in order to play/install a game. You even have to have Steam installed to play offline games you've bought through Steam from what I saw when I did use Steam a year or so ago to get CoD 2.

At least with a game that comes on hard media, one that doesn't need Steam for the most part, you can install it and run it as and when you like without another annoying app, which I found Steam to be when I installed it to get CoD 2, which I subsequently ripped out of Steam because I was fed up with having to click on Steam, then the game, then wait a couple of minutes for Steam to do it's checks and then finally get into the game...

Might just be me and the OP that have had or still do have issues with Steam but I would wager we're not the only ones.

And what happens if you don't have an internet connection but want to install those games you've paid for, yep that's right, you can't afaik, so if for some reason you lose you connection (let's say you can't afford to pay for it anymore so you get cut off, and yes it can happen...) your left without the items that you've paid for and there really isn't much you can do about it as I understand it.

Doesn't happen with a game on DVD now does it...

Steam may be all well and good for those of you out there with a reliable internet connection and a super duper rig but for those of us who have low end rigs and not particularly good internet services it's not such a great thing, not in my experience and from the looks of it not in the OPs experience either.

 

Steam does not always remove SecuROM from its titles either.

 

umm.. if you can't afford to pay for ur internet bills the last thing u wanna do is sit home and play games on steam. Just my 2 cents.

 

Yah genius.

The part about not having a net connection could easily apply to someone who works all the hours under the sun but has some free time to enjoy some gaming for relaxation, but is paid a low wage and living costs have increased beyond what they can afford so they have to cut back on luxuries such as the web.

And I was actually attempting to point out that Steam is useless without a net connection, whereas other games that don't require Steam to be there so you can install them and come on DVDs are not...

 

yeah but how many people play modren games today with no internet connection? Or better said: How many people buy games on steam and somehow manages to completly delete all their games and than completly looses their internet connection for a few months. Common that aint happening. Even inthe army u got connection for internet

 

Wanna bet on that? (And no it hasn't happened to me fortunately).

I play plenty of games with no net connection, basically because my net service is so flaky it doesn't stand up to web gaming (that and I don't have a fixed line broadband service, I use a mobile internet dongle, mostly due to the fact I need it in more than one place and the place that isn't my home isn't owned by me and I can't use their net connection (the office)) so I'd say I'm one person who plays modern games with no net connection, probably one of a few but we're still here...

But if I do have to do a clean install and I don't have a backup I know I can install my games within a matter of an hour or two from DVD, you can't say that about having to use Steam, at least not when your using a net connection that only gives at best a 100kbs transfer rate on average...

 

LOL, that happens to about 000,1% of the people using steam and if it does they probably deserved it and didn't take responsibility for their actions that made this happen for them.

 

that should solve most problems probably got a corrpt file on install / first time running the game

 

Well, than ur an unlucky ******* hehe, ur msg was a little confusing to me since am not a native English speaker but, i would try contact a internet company for a better connection or a private connection. Or simply do what i did when i was younger. I bought a wireless computer network card and modified a Tv antenna to it so it sucked up all the signals in town. Sometimes i had a free 10 M.bit line. It was awesome. Mostly around 3-4 M.bit though

 

FAIL!!!

 

samething for Battlefield 2142. No internet connection = no bang-bang

 

Well OK I wasn't aware that Battlefield and Crysis Warhead required a net connection. I stand corrected, I don't play many FPSs (Just the MoH series and CoD series up to 2)...

But at least with most games you can install them without requiring a net connection, even if they do have online components (Dawn of War series for example, or C&C 3 as another example (although my memory fails me as to whether you can play that online..)).

And correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure someone will) but Crysis Warhead and the Battlefield series are meant to be online multiplayer FPSs and don't include much in the way of a single player mode that would be played offline so naturally you'd need a net connection for them.

Games such as CoD 2 on the other hand which I bought via Steam don't require a net connection to play the single player campaign and I could buy it on DVD and be able to install it without needing Steam, no? But if I buy it from Steam I need Steam to install it, thus requiring a net connection. So for someone who doesn't have a net connection, for whatever reason, if they have previously purchased a game via Steam it's not very helpful (and I'm not talking from experience either) but it just seems to me that Steam isn't the great "online saviour of gaming" many make it out to be.

I would also think the online authentication of the EULA as shown on that pic is an anti-piracy method more than anything, still a pain in the *** if you don't know you needed it before you buy the game, helps to read the small print I guess...

 

Sometimes people have little control over the quality of their internet. I'm living in a very nice part of town, and our cable internet could be way way more reliable.

 

Do you have to be online all the time though for Warhead? I'm online all the time anyway, so I can't tell but I thought you only needed to be online for MP and to confirm your purchase.

 

Crysis is very much SP focused not MP, as are many games that require online activation. I agree Steam is not a savior of anything. But it is a fairly well thought out and implemented distribution system for games. It might not be for everyone, I am not contesting that, but it is very successful and for the most part works very well. Software is software, and no matter what there are always problems. But good software is software that gets refined, improved and widely accepted as a standard. Steam has definitely done that in gaming.

Experiences with Steam lag from long ago are a thing of the past. And the odd glitch in the system is no a reason to condemn it. Nothing works perfectly.

True enough. In that respect anything requiring internet is hit and miss. But many games require internet.

No. You only need to activate Warhead online. Much like Bioshock, Mass Effect and may others. But something to consider in this discussion is that you do need the CD in the drive. Something not required for Steam games. Yes there are No CD cracks but then you might as well be talking about pirating games (Steam or no Steam).

 

im pretty sure i've had that problem before. i cant remember how to fix it, but i dont think it is a permanant problem.

 

Ya..it seems you're problem is easily fixed, try FORGETTING YOUR PASSWORD AND WHEN YOU ASK FOR A "Forgotten Password" Email IT NEVER COMES!!!!!! ALL MY CSS Money down the drain. T_T. Steam blows.

 

steam is your pc's best friend, i never really had any problems, i dont even remember the last time i went to the store and buy a game, steam for multiplayer - torrents for single player GG! ^_^

 

And that's at least the 2nd mention of illegal stuffs (forum rules).

Nocturnal...you're welcome to make a new thread, to solve your problem(s). Just no torrents .