[Hippo]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Problem is, it's hard to find a smooth server.

And again, I never had a problem with it...

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by aldo_14
actually, even with the update you had to wait several hours for it to do...well, something.  Dunno what.  I couldn't cancel it, and it kept crashing at 25, 50, 90% etc and forcing a restart.

You sure it didn't catalog your pr0n collection and report the results to your ISP/Valve/the MI6/your mom ?

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by Col. Fishguts
catalogise

Word of the day

[Col. Fishguts]

Now you made me look it up. Fixored, although I like my version too.

[Sigma957]

Well I never had a problem with HL2 either and I could play it offline quite as easy as online.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Unknown Target



OMG! YOU DARE TO TARNISH THE GODS OF GAMING DEVELOPMENT?!
Seriously, that's what most people think of Valve - even though they released only one full game, and, like, two original expansion packs - everything else they ripped.

Hell, Valve didn't even make the expansions for Half-Life.

I still don't get the Valve worship. Other games before had all of the pieces of Half Life, and games that came out that year had the same scripted story driven gameplay.

Pfeh!

[starbug]

Well i foned up to make my complaint about the way i was treated when i called the helpline to help me get the game working, straight after i said i would like to make a complaint they HUNG UP!!!!!!!!! so its now down to emails and letters i think.

On a side not my update has corrupted at 98% means am gonna have to spend another six hours getting the update

Sod it, no game is worth this trouble, i'll just stick to Fear and Quake 4 special Edition when it arrives from Amazon.uk

[Getter Robo G]

Hmm which is worse: steam or valve PR/support?

[pyro-manic]

Get on the phone to trading standards and/or Watchdog. If they're going to screw you around like that, give them a bit of hassle back.

[Unknown Target]

Try Maximum PC's Watchdog thing - they're pretty good at biting back, if my thoughts on them are justified

[Nix]

On a 56K connection, it took me on my first install about 45 minutes to decrypt the original files.  Though, acquiring the updates will take some time too, that is if you WANT to update the files.

[pyro-manic]

Hum - I started playing HL2 again yesterday, and I didn't have any problems. Steam took about half an hour to get itself together, but as I was cooking that wasn't a problem. Connected up fine, updated in about 15 minutes, and the game runs fine.

[vyper]

Does anyone else have problems when launching steam with windows? I get module load failed errors.

[kasperl]

I do too, so I just turned the damn thing off.

[starbug]

Yip i get them to, I just got that mad now ave uninstalled it and now HL2 is starting to gather dust on the shelve, such a shame

[Hippo]

Nope