I'm just going to stick with free games from now on, and awesome redone source code projects like fso. I was thinking about giving away my orange box, which means i'd be giving away my steam account for free, but that's prohibited by the steam license agreement. Also the license agreement prohibits the sale of a steam account. Giving away the game cd wouldn't work since the cd key is tied into the steam account the game got registered with. If you ever see a used copy of orange box or another steam game for sale on ebay or something, don't buy it because it's an SOL deal since most people doing this don't realize the thing with the cd key and the steam account (and if they are selling it with the account credentials to play then that's illegal according to the steam license agreement). And you're not allowed to transfer games from one steam account to another after 90 days (you know, because steam prefers people to buy games than see one game get passed around by hundreds of people, if this could be done i'd help facilitate it (more exciting than tracking a chain email)).
I am trying to salvage something i'm treating like was my own investment (it was a christmas present), but idk if i can wait for those huge updates to finish on dialup just to play the games. I'm still really contemplating throwing it in the garbage. I still want to give portal a play through if i can, and at least play all of the hl2 episodes.
Big news, i was able to play hl2 for half an hour after i got the games installed a second time. And i was good, figured i'd spend the time beating hl2 before i started on the episodes. I save my game and quit, then steam found an update for hl2
Now i have to wait for huge updates on everything
****IT!!! The updates only take less time if you got like a 3megabit connection (considering that 128kbps dsl in alaska is like 60$ a month, you can understand why i opted for dialup which is half the price while at the same time still insanely expensive for such a lowly connection).
I do download big stuff on my dialup, it takes like a day or two, i can still surf the web in the mean time just a little slower (the only thing dialup has prevented is youtube). But, steam game updates i'm not really considering as being worth my time, as opposed to the quake4 linux executable so i could play the game on ultra quality (quake4 works perfectly in wine, except no matter what you do, the game is stuck in low quality graphics mode) to have some kind of stress test for what the gts 250 was really made for. The graphics test was great, quake4 still sucks (quake2 was way better for single and multi). Instead of game updates for steam, i'm putting my time in for nexuiz.
Consider the fact that the games on the orangebox dvd were released and working enough to play through, that's all i want to do. I don't care about having the latest updates for orangebox, the game on the dvd works good enough as is for a play through. I just want to play through as is, and then dumpster.
My grandma got me orangebox for christmas a couple of years ago (i haven't been able to play it until now actually). I love mom#2 a lot, and she gets me some really great stuff for christmas. In this case not so great (people aren't perfect), but i am going to play through all of the games at least once before it goes in the dumpster to honor the person who got it for me and somehow cherish this gift before trashing it. Because steam prohibits giving away of a steam account to a friend (steam even prohibits you logging into steam so a friend can play a game or two in your steam collection), i can't return the game, and i don't like the bull**** it entails, so really this is the only way i see about getting anything done...play, then trash...no possibility of play, then trash.
I'd go ahead and happily transfer the games to any one of your steam accounts freely. I'm still researching the ability to transfer. Somebody should be able to enjoy what my grandma got for me if it isn't going to be me enjoying it. And yes i'd still be *****ing about steam even if i had a faster connection.
EDIT: Yes i keep *****ing. But, for all of those with a steam account really ought to read the
steam subscriber agreement. Just the "registration and activation" part is all you'll need to help you understand more about steam in the area of selling accounts, giving them away for free, or letting a buddy on to play a game or two (you'll also notice they hold you personally responsible for whatever happens on that steam account). I know it's a subscriber agreement, and i keep saying license, but i don't see how much different this is to an end user license agreement other than that steam says "subscriber" instead (and combine it with the fact that steam is a licensing service). Either way, this subscriber agreement tells you what you can and cannot do. Don't be like the guy who sold his steam account with 139 games for $1000. He obviously didn't read crap.
Found here.
