#3404744 - 10/06/11 01:21 PM
Venting some STEAM
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What a little piece of garbage this invasiveware is...
Lazy afternoon, go to the store, pick up a game, come home, launch install and get ready to play but Noooo, FARTS just has to let another big one rip right in your face when it starts downloading some 200mb patch and won't let you play till it's done. Not of all us are on NASA's fiber optics... So instead of some gaming time, I have to wait around. And the remaining time counter's been stuck on 10mn for over half an hour now...
All the little blasted punk was able to do when I went looking for an option do disable the automatic download of updates was to crash on me. No luck finding the option either. If it's there it's well hidden...
Sorry, had to vent while I'm waiting for FARTS to be done passing gas all over my gaming afternoon...
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Nico
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#3404970 - 10/06/11 05:56 PM
Re: Venting some STEAM
[Re: VonBarb.]
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VonBarb.
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So there is an option ! Thanks Paradaz, except it should be the other way round : automatic updates toggled off by default, since the donwload starts right after the installation is finished and doesn't give you any time to turn it off. Clever bas...
@RSColonel : I just wish I was given a choice, but somehow as of late it appears use of STEAM will be more and more widespread as an alarming proportion of my latest game purchases required it. I hate the damn thing, and I hate it even more that I'm forced to cope with it in order to enjoy games that interest me.
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Nico
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#3405394 - 10/07/11 07:05 AM
Re: Venting some STEAM
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VonBarb.
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Maybe it is, but to vote with my wallet would mean quitting gaming altogether in the short to medium term, and the alternative that would allow me to have my cake and eat it... well, I'd rather not discuss it here, and it wouldn't be helping anyone either.
Since devs will assimilate my purchasing their game as a way to condone the use of STEAM, the only thing left for me to do is to be vocal about my hatred of the system. Maybe if more people spoke out, they'd realise not everyone is as ecstatic about it as they'd thought...
I've come to terms with the RoF system, because I find it a lot less invasive and restricting. Maybe a STEAM "lite" would help ?
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Nico
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#3405514 - 10/07/11 02:08 PM
Re: Venting some STEAM
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I tell you what you should try, Download the Origin Download manager from EA and use that for a while. I guarantee you will like Steam a whole lot better. I just downloaded a 3Gb update for RO2, it took 10 minutes.
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#3406074 - 10/08/11 07:37 AM
Re: Venting some STEAM
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I don't see why you would even bother playing a game that is unpatched. I'd rather play it right the first time than wade through hours of trouble shooting getting the game to run, enable features, crashing and all of the other common errors with unpatched PC games. Let alone searching the internet (and getting possibly viruses in the process, game sites are filled with them) looking for a patch to update the game eventually, only to find out that you downloaded the wrong version and have to restart the process over again (because how are you supposed to know that "English" versions of the game won't work on American computers?). The simultaneous download/install from Steam is far quicker than downloading it elsewhere and then installing. And you will eventually want to patch your game; you might as well do it in as little time as possible. Lets not forget that Steam downloading/installing a game uses far less resources than Firefox staying open and especially less resources than running a .exe installer. You can not like Steam for many reasons, but this point is rather null. IMO. Bong, good for you, but not everyone has the bandwitch like you.. as for Origin, two days ago I reinstalled Bad Company 2 to try some multiplayer (got bored with BF3 open beta Metro map), but no, of course I had to wait 4 hours for the autoupdater finishes downloading all the patches and other stuff I don't even know the purpose of. Do I have to add those four hours in the evening were all the spare gaming time I had in last several days? So you wanted to play BFBC2 MP, but without the latest patch? Because you won't actually be able to find any servers. I tried this recently. I had to manually download the 3GB patch from Gamers Hell, and then install it. That being said I really don't like Origin.
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#3406130 - 10/08/11 12:16 PM
Re: Venting some STEAM
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It's not so much about playing an unpatched game or having it being done for you - it's about not being given the choice to, or more accurately, the choice to is somewhat obfuscated.
When you load up a game, you want to play it. You don't want to have to wait minutes/hours for it to patch while you have to sit around like a lemon waiting for it to finish. Now, if you know that something has to be patched, then you will mentally understand that and assign and allow time for it to be patched.
The fact that it is capable of automatically patching is a convenience. However, if you don't ask for it to be patched, the patch is big, and you don't allow time for it (you want to play it ffs), then it becomes the opposite. It's damned frustrating.
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