We Wanted To Play

eaglec

<div class="IPBDescription">but instead we wrote bad poetry</div> We were all bored in irc bitching about how bad the steam update was... as in we could get it because all the servers were overstressed, so we started to write bad poetry about it.. feel free to add your own odes <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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MrMojo

Steam works fine for me <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->


Sorry.

eaglec

Steam updates last night took an age to come through with many 'fail connection' 'lost connection' and 'this game is not currently available', not just for me but for many people. Most of the issues seem to be resolved now but it really was a pretty poor show by valve, again. For a peice of software designed for software distribution and marketing it ironically falls flat on its face in both those departments.

For those still trying to sort out the mess you have my sympathies.

Jefe

Let the anti-steam Haiku begin.

Steam is slow today.
The large update frightens us.
My forehead is bruised.

BlackMage

i hear of long updates
but yet i click, waiting
the bar fills quicky

yeah, it went pretty fast for me.
for those who haven't updated:
you can now play offline

tip: find something else to do for 24-48hrs then update

Retales

Yesterday I tried to play games,
but Steam only was teh lames.
While I waited, I ate some pie,
now Steam has started to lie.
It claims that my connection is buggy,
though only Steam is sucky.
I wonder if my account is gone,
"Oh Steam, what hast thou done?!".
I panicked and reinstalled it,
now I would need a medkit.
You ruined HL, evil Steam,
I'd fry you in a laserbeam.

(Has Steam claimed that your account doesn't exist anymore? It did that to me <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> )

Tequila

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"Steam"
by Tequila
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Steam,
Is a pipe dream.

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Bill_Door

Steam has broken itself...
Whereas before it
<img src='http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Mjki3se2/SteamCrash.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
on exit, and also left a HL process running when I exited HL, now its getting connection errors. And if I don't get a connection error I get:
<img src='http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Mjki3se2/Steamerror.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Which is weird, since I only installed Steam one more time than I uninstalled.

Its FUBAR.

ZiGGY

ive been ill the past week so i havent been able to play anyway ;p

DiscoZombie

a few hours yesterday I could understand... but why does steam STILL not work, 24 hours later? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Hawkeye

Cause everybody is downloading. If you go to their homepage www.steampowered.com, you'd see the pictures don't even load. Their bandwidth is overloaded. Sometimes I wonder if they considered how many people would have to download the new steam when they make an update, because I think if they even had the slightest hint of an idea of this concept, they would have placed the new update on other servers for downloading as well.

DiscoZombie

I guess this is why they want to add a p2p system to Steam -- to prevent things like this...

a day without Steam
like sixteen angry gorges
spits upon my soul

eaglec

the p2p thing was a nasty rumour. The official statement was that steam would allow the distribution and control of p2p games, not that HL would be made p2p.
In other words they may at a point in the future release a p2p game and distribute, advertise and control it via steam. It is not likely until steams reputation fades a bit though.

Cookeh

to see all those NS servers empty .. it gives me the shivers <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Daza4

Bill reinsatll steam and quit bitchin' <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->