Steam : what do you think about it? any quirks ?

[yogibbear]

My favourite box is my stalker:soc collector's edition metal case. Store my LiPo rc batteries in there.

[StingingVelvet]

My favorite collector's box is probably the Fallout 3 lunchbox thing, I just love that for some reason. Grand Theft Auto 4 has a great box for a normal game.

I feel like collecting old collector's editions of games I love sometimes. How my girl would hate me for that... ha.

[infernus]

Yeah, Fallout 3's probably got the best CE of recent times. <3 silly lunchbox and bobblehead

[mkk]

Here's a quirk. The Steam client accesses all harddrives in a system when it starts up, and sometimes on updates as well. Regardless of which drive that the client and the games are actually residing on. I've been on the Steam forum and opened up a support ticket about this but with no result so far. Messy code irritates me even at times when my sleeping harddrives aren't woken up by it. ;)

Other than that I don't mind it so much when games I buy come with Steam as a requirement, but I don't usually buy games directly from Steam because they tend to be strangely expensive.

[whismerhill]

my sleeping harddrives aren't woken up by it. ;)

out of topic but had to say that letting the OS put standard hard drives (Not SDD) to sleep is a bad idea in general unless the computer requires it as a whole because it's running on battery

every "sleep" mode of a hard drive counts as a power off/on sequence and therefore reduce its life expectancy

[Ryom]

[quote]my sleeping harddrives aren't woken up by it. ;)

out of topic but had to say that letting the OS put standard hard drives (Not SDD) to sleep is a bad idea in general unless the computer requires it as a whole because it's running on battery

every "sleep" mode of a hard drive counts as a power off/on sequence and therefore reduce its life expectancy

Agreed, unless you are really concerned about electricity usage let your drives spin.

[StingingVelvet]

This holiday sale is a prime example of how steam gets you. I want to buy boxes but the present you with such amazing deals you can't not buy them.

[scavvenjahh]

Then again I pity the fools who unsuspectingly add Steam on top of the installation nightmare that is GTA4. Merry Xmess !

[infernus]

So I bought GTAIV partly because people always bitch about GFWL and this being one of those that were implemented poorly. I don't see it. If anything, Rockstar Game Social Club launcher thing is more annoying...

[Soduka]

I don't have a problem with GFWL. The Rockstar Social Shit Sandwich on the other hand...

[StingingVelvet]

So I bought GTAIV partly because people always bitch about GFWL and this being one of those that were implemented poorly. I don't see it. If anything, Rockstar Game Social Club launcher thing is more annoying...

The main two problems with GFWL in my mind are 1) they mess with your saves, sometimes making them unavailable offline and making backups hard to get working, and 2) the point system used for add-ons.

Some people who test such things tell me it is a proven resource hog as well compared to something like Steam.

[MobsterOO7]

So I bought GTAIV partly because people always bitch about GFWL and this being one of those that were implemented poorly. I don't see it. If anything, Rockstar Game Social Club launcher thing is more annoying...

Just wait until GFWL tries to patch the game for you, while in game. It takes FOREVER. I actually thought that my computer froze while the patch was running.

[whismerhill]

there is GTA4 mods for modding out both GFWL & rockstar social club
and if done correctly that will only impact GTA4
fps can increase if you're CPU limited, startup time reduced, but forget about online play though ...

[erikjanneman]

I'm having trouble buying games through steam atm. It gives me an error message @ the screen where you select payment option... It's kind of frustrating... Anyone else experiencing this?

[StingingVelvet]

I'm having trouble buying games through steam atm. It gives me an error message @ the screen where you select payment option... It's kind of frustrating... Anyone else experiencing this?

Yeah, people are complaining all over the Steam forums.

[Paradigm Shifter]

I got lucky with one quick purchase, it went through, but a bit slowly.

Download speeds on Steam are hammered at the minute. Very slow... at least for me.

[StingingVelvet]

I bought Trials 2 and it went through, but it complained the whole time.

[mustangdelta]

I'm having trouble buying games through steam atm. It gives me an error message @ the screen where you select payment option... It's kind of frustrating... Anyone else experiencing this?

Ditto....got through eventually, now its taking forever to download.

Ahh the cost of saving money....

[erikjanneman]

It went through eventually. Still, I was kind of worried it might have registered the purchases and since I tried several times, would have payed for the game like 5 times. But it seems I only payed once ;p.

Mass Effect started @ 100kb/s but @ 12% or something it went up to 1.1mb/s. So not too bad. Trials is only 120mb and was installed before i even knew it.

[yogibbear]

Trials downloaded in 54 seconds for me. Just awesome.