There's something to be said *FOR* Steam...

"Stri" <geordiekid DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 14, 6:56 pm, "McG." <McCod... DeleteThis @comcast.ne> wrote:
> Old pc croaks, salvage hd's...copy entire Steam folder to new hd...make a
> shortcut to old Steam.exe just transferred over...run it, log in, let it
> update all the games. Run any game in the list, no problems! Gotta love
> that!
>
> McG.

Nice.

Personally I love Steam. Always have. I didn't like the teething
problems it had but there were just that. I think Steam is the best
content delivery system I have used.

Hey man as long as it stays UP and I can get to my games whenever I want to,
I got no gripe
McG.

> Hey man as long as it stays UP and I can get to my games whenever I want to,
> I got no gripe
> McG.

To be fair I've not used Steam an awful lot of the last year or so.
I'm unaware of it's more recent problems and I remember the original
problems. Initially the platform was quite flawed but after having
used EA's content delivery system I've begun to appreciate how good
Valves really is.

"Stri" skrev

> To be fair I've not used Steam an awful lot of the last year or so.
> I'm unaware of it's more recent problems

None IIRC, except some server/network hickups which was solved after a day
or so

> and I remember the original problems.

Don't we all

- Peter

"Peter [AGHL]" <plykkegaard.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Stri" skrev
>
>> To be fair I've not used Steam an awful lot of the last year or so.
>> I'm unaware of it's more recent problems
>
> None IIRC, except some server/network hickups which was solved after a day
> or so
>
>> and I remember the original problems.
>
> Don't we all
>
> - Peter

Yeah... and dare we mention "his" name in here? Who could forget THAT?!
))

McG.

McG. wrote:
> "Peter [AGHL]" <plykkegaard DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "Stri" skrev
>>
>>> To be fair I've not used Steam an awful lot of the last year or so.
>>> I'm unaware of it's more recent problems
>> None IIRC, except some server/network hickups which was solved after a day
>> or so
>>
>>> and I remember the original problems.
>> Don't we all
>>
>> - Peter
>
> Yeah... and dare we mention "his" name in here? Who could forget THAT?!
> ))
>
> McG.

I think he's road kill on Steam highway these days.
Still have a bit of difficulty with the offline mode, and some bandwidth
control would be nice, but Steam's OK...

Civilian_Target

"McG." <McCodger.RemoveThis@comcast.ne> wrote in message
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> Old pc croaks, salvage hd's...copy entire Steam folder to new hd...make a
> shortcut to old Steam.exe just transferred over...run it, log in, let it
> update all the games. Run any game in the list, no problems! Gotta love
> that!

Never had a prob on steam....got about 30games or so on there....

"Lief" <ask.me.for.DeleteThis@it.com> wrote in message
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>
> "McG." <McCodger.DeleteThis@comcast.ne> wrote in message
> news:491dc9b4$0$13728$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com...
>> Old pc croaks, salvage hd's...copy entire Steam folder to new hd...make a
>> shortcut to old Steam.exe just transferred over...run it, log in, let it
>> update all the games. Run any game in the list, no problems! Gotta
>> love that!
>
> Never had a prob on steam....got about 30games or so on there....
I heard that! I don't have that many games on Steam, about a dozen, plus a
bunch of mods for HL2 and HL1. Heh, my little list isn't long enough for
a scrollbar

But they all play fine. Even from moving them from one pc to the next.

McG.