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CoD download, installation and activation threads All discussions about installation, online activation and Steam |
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And overall, it's a win for us customers, as we get easy access to niche-products like, for example, flightsims. Prepare to be furious for a very long time, then, because like it or not, Steam and such apps definately ARE the future in content distribution. As the overall bandwith of the average home-user goes up, so does the amount of content being delivered online. |
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That's why i used to keep backups during the early patches when performance tweaks were a bit hit and miss: if the patch resulted in worse performance on your system, there was nothing you could do to roll back. That's actually my principle annoyance with Steam. For a service with so high bandwidth costs, one thinks they could have seen the benefit of enabling incremental patching to give their customers some finer control if they want it, while also saving themselves some bandwidth. Right now it's inefficient for both steam and customer if a game goes through a prolonged optimization patching process (like CoD): they stream all those GBs to you even if you don't want them all, while you take up space on your HDD or copying them to DVD for keeping backups of older versions. Quote:
In all fairness i haven't had much trouble with Steam, but it would be better if it stuck to doing what it does best: content delivery. It's useless as an anti-piracy measure (crack one game and you've cracked them all) and depending on who you ask, it's a mixed bag in terms of support and user experience: some people swear by it, others have permanently lost access to hundreds of $ worth of games. If it was just an interface to buy and download games, without having to run the client in the background to play, it would rock plain and simple. As a small example, a month ago my secondary HDD died so i had to reinstall Steam and download CoD again. Well, the registry information about the previous installation was still there, so i thought "ok, let's uninstall normally through the control panel, it will clear the registry and just tell me it didn't find files to delete". Well, no dice. Steam wouldn't install because it thought it was already installed and it wouldn't uninstall either because it didn't find the path to the files to delete. I ended up finding a solution after scouring the net for a couple of hours and it wasn't even documented in steam's official FAQ. The official troubleshooting guide had me download a "steam remover" tool that also failed to work, the solution was found in a user forum. It's stuff like that which annoys me when adding layers of complexity not directly relevant to the software i'm going to use: making it harder for the legitimate user to use the software without it even being his fault that things got messed up, while a pirate copy will play flawlessly regardless of anything. I know what i'm talking about, i keep my original game discs in good condition by doing just that: applying cracks on games that i actually bought I guess Steam is one of those things that works well when it works, but you keep your fingers crossed it doesn't stop working. |
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psst, don´t let the lawyers see that, as it is still illegal
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I do not mind Steam or whatever as long as I can have a hardcopy of my game |
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