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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / March 2004place to get Steam 700mb Download
Is there a place where i can get the 700mb download of steam? > Is there a place where i can get the 700mb download of steam? Fileplanet? And BTW FP has gotm 'emself a download manager these days - nice - Peter just go to www.steampowered.com > Is there a place where i can get the 700mb download of steam? Why do you even want steam? It's completely overly bloated, for each mod yo set it up for it's like installign another copy of half-life (say ou have HL, CS, and TFC that like 3 seperate HL folder cloned... as far as I'm concerned there is no good excuse for this.) Also, if ou download and cool custom maps, it will get deleteed automaticially as the maps fodler for the mod you're playing get periodically wiped. And if your comp isn't (near) top of the line it'll take some time JUST to get steam itself to load. Not to mention it's a complete friggen memory hog. Lastly, so many people are sticking with won based HL/TFC/CS/... and for very good reasons, like above, and more. Steam just plain blows. > Why do you even want steam? Maybe he wants to play on steam servers? > It's completely overly bloated, for each mod > yo set it up for it's like installign another copy of half-life (say ou > have HL, CS, and TFC that like 3 seperate HL folder cloned... as far as > I'm concerned there is no good excuse for this.) My old HL folder is 2.27GB, my Steam folder is 2.46GB .... Not an awful lot of difference there... unless an extra couple of hundred MB worth of updates and other stuff that i've installed on to it is "Bloated". > Also, if ou download and cool custom maps, it will get deleteed > automaticially as the maps fodler for the mod you're playing get > periodically wiped. News to me? - All my custom stuff is still intact from when i first installed Steam 1.0 back in september.  SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 Yeah, he's full of beans... Steam works great... I use both WON and Steam since many of my favorite servers have migrated to Steam... The problems he stated simply don't exist... >> Why do you even want steam? > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >News to me? - All my custom stuff is still intact from when i first >installed Steam 1.0 back in september. >Yeah, he's full of beans... Steam works great... I use both WON and >Steam since many of my favorite servers have migrated to Steam... The >problems he stated simply don't exist... Well, to be fair he has one good point. Why would you upgrade to steam when WON works perfectly well still. I downloaded steam now and installed it, but there's not reason to use it over WON, and in fact, I've only used it once. Civilian_Target You'll all have to go to Steam eventually since they will be phasing out the WON ID system soon. There are no concrete dates yet, but looking at this post on (http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=1b77102c08fe66fc7fe9e7e3adc 04f14&threadid=70721&highlight=WONID), it shouldn't be for a little while. b0yce > >Yeah, he's full of beans... Steam works great... I use both WON and > >Steam since many of my favorite servers have migrated to Steam... The [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Civilian_Target > You'll all have to go to Steam eventually since they will be phasing out the > WON ID system soon. There are no concrete dates yet, but looking at this [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > b0yce The word from valve was something like "we'll shutdown WON when steam is working the way want it to" ... which could be a lot longer than that :-) ... But Steam or no steam, i expect WON would have been shut down eventually anyway, once HL2 was released and noone wanted to play that old thing any more :) .. at least this way, we can carry on playing HL online for as long as we like.. instead of just getting to a point where it stops being worthwhile for the WON servers to stay, and just "dies". SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 |
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