SEV on Steam?

[wilhil]

have you tried steam recently?

I used to be a complainer about it, and to tell you the truth the early versions sucked, it sucks when you are forced to install it along with a game (such as when you buy HL2, read link I did in previous posts), it just plain sucks in any way to isntall it apart from:

installing from the internet, if you just do the normal download of steam, it installs very quickly and easily, you sign in, and then you can download easily and for free, any games you have already bought.

Personally it took ages for me to install HL2 with steam, and register it, I hated the process, but once it is there, BLISS!

converting games, like if you have HL classic installed, and install steam, and try to convert it, that is hell, and from what you said, I am guessing that is what you mean.. but it is something you only have to do the once.

Once the game is registered with steam, it is brilliant, if you get a new pc, all you have to do is download steam, type in account info, and double click the game, within mins (providing fast connection, it is all playable with patches configured..

not to try and be bad, but I was such a whiner saying how much I hated it, but once you realise how good it is, then you can understand it truly... infact, I will try right now, I am going to get a new pc, install steam, and play a game, I am going to record a video of it all right now so no one can complain about it!

as for everyone saying about going out of business, thinking about disaster.... just forget it, i will get slack for saying this, but we can deal with that whenever that ever happens...

[Kamog]

I agree. I don't always have internet connection and I'd like to play my games without having to be online...

Do you have to be connected all the time to play, or is it just a one-time thing?

[wilhil]

well, im ill, cant sleep, so I did it...

http://media.putfile.com/steam77

double click on the video when it loads to go in full screen, my res is 1280x1024, it may appear blurey if you use a smaller monitor, it was taken in real time at the full res.

also, when i was in game, ofr some reason it recorded it in the top left corner only... I was playing in full screen.

[wilhil]

I beleive you do not have to be connected, as long as you do not sign out... I am not 100% sure on this, but I used to use it on my laptop, and apart from when I was at home, I had no connection, and I did play it away from here

[Combat Wombat]

Yeah you don't need a constant internet connection, as long as you do not log out you can use it offline

[Combat Wombat]

Just watched the video good job
You can turn the pop ups about the games off in file>settings>messages>upcoming and new releases

[wilhil]

glad you like it!

i am lucky to have a fast internet connection and a good computer... well that is a lab one, my main computer is even better , that is just showing why I think steam is good, and SEv would be lucky to be on it.

as I said before, and I want to re say this, installing HL2 on a new machine, was hell, copying and converting a previous hl game to steam is hell... this is where you get horror storys, but once your game is on there, it is brilliant, and so simple to use!

as you can see from the video, when I said earlier that you can be in the game in less than 10 mins, I was not lying! with all the writing as well, I downloaded and installed steam, went ingame, went to training level, and moved around quickly, quit game, all in under 6 or 7 mins... I cant remember now, but anyway... video says it all, and from how they are promoting darwina, SEv can only hope to get the same treatment if it is realeased on steam!

[wilhil]

why did i have to install steam, now I want to play cs or day of defeat a few times.... got to resist!

[Oversway]

After thinking about it some more, I'd rather not have to use steam (or similar delivery system) either. The advantages do not outweight the disadvantages for me. But I can understand why some people would find it useful. Also, if it could be used by game developers to get freedom from big publishers, that sounds cool in theory.

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I very much dislike the idea of buying something that does not exist in any other form than on my computer hard drive. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to have a disc in my hand, something physical that I can sell, copy, etc as I choose. Things like Steam make it difficult to exercise your rights as a consumer. Not to mention the fact that the whole "big brother" thing just isn't for me. I don't need some corporation to know whenever I play the game, how long I do it, etc etc ad nauseum. Not to mention the fact that a whole lot of people don't have high-speed internet, like me. It's just way too expensive if you live outside of a city. Which 50% of the world's population does. That's alienating a lot of your potential consumer base.