All steamed up
Like most sane people, I am not the biggest fan of Valve’s ‘Steam’ content screwuppery system. But it really surpassed itself this time. Since I got a few games for Christmas (Dawn of War being the chief culprit) I haven’t played HL2 for a while.
So the other day I started up good ‘ole Steam, only for it to insist that Half Life 2 was not installed, and I needed to download it from Steam (at least it wasn’t asking me to pay, but downloading several gig of stuff is not going to happen at half eight at night, even on my broadband pipe. Despite all the files being where Steam installed them, and completely unchanged to boot, Valve’s ‘innovative’ piece of crap still couldn’t find them.
Valve’s technical support was (predictably, given the talent of the Steam programmers) about as helpful as an iguana on crack, leaving me to start Steam up myself this morning only for everything to work fine (well, CS Source, I haven’t tried HL2 since the screwup yet). One thing that can be said for EA and Micro$uck$- at last they don’t screw us over with stuff like Steam.