letting off steam

[Delta2]

come on that load of crap was not worth reading (rizzuh's or the waffleass's) steam well come when it comes now lets see a mailbag you fat whore

[HankPym]

I'm largely on Luftwaffle's side on this one. Yes it is clear that VALVe, wasn't really prepared for their planned release, but all of us continually flooding the Steam servers certainly isn't helping. We're part of the problem, yet many of us seem quite content to bitch about it all they like.



I also thought that the HL.org article was a little to self-righteous as well as contradictory. As Luftwaffle pointed out, the most laughable part was the final two paragraphs, which directly contradict each other. The first hails Steam as a revolution in gaming, and the next calls it a waste of time. For the love of god, someone explain that to me.



I'm personally loving Steam. Sure it would be nice if it worked more often, but I'm content to wait until VALVe gets their act together.

[Exo]

I didn't even read the article because of the first paragraph. I can only hope the author reads this and realizes he can't even blink correctly.



Good job Luft.

[lnknptheory]

Hey, wasn't "Letting off Steam" also the title of your article Rizzuh? Hmmm... I guess that they just foolow the best...

[-MuLDeR]

Luftwaffle is right about most of this stuff and I believe that VAVLe is just doing a piss poor job with most of the crap that they have released... that's all im saying

[f00kie]

I'm with Luft on this one all the way. I read the other article the other day, and I picked up many errors by the author, especially his huge contradicition in the ned, as explained by Luft.



Gj.

[rizzuh]

I think LuftWaffle missed the point on the majority of the article. Steam was going to be released only hours after the leak began, how could it have magically handled the load then?

lnknptheory wrote..

Hey, wasn't "Letting off Steam" also the title of your article Rizzuh?

Yeah I basically named both things, my news post and this article. Sorry about the confusion, I ran out of puns.

[-MuLDeR]

ps, this reminds me of a certain condition zero (hence the name)

[MikeJ]

I agree with the article on a lot of the points, but Steam was going to be officially released the day it was leaked, so we can only assume the version that would of been released and the bandwidth to handle it where the same as the leaked version, so I think it's safe to conclude that the beta test was somewhat a failure (even though it is possible to play CS 1.6 pretty easily as of now). I do see good thing for steam though, mainly in the way of a more level playing field and anti cheat. It looks as if you can no longer use custom openGL drivers also, which could mean the end of openGL hacks period. Don't know though...

[tatsukaze00]

VALVE RELEASED STEAM 2.0 BETA ON STEAMPOWERED.COM, WITH LINKS TO VARIOUS MIRRORS.



Valve couldn't handle the load, nuff said.



They removed the link about 2 hours after posing it.

[azz0r]

If steam wasnt ready why was it about to be released half an hour later than it was leaked. I dunno the article confused me.

[ManInTheBox]

Oh come on, everybody makes mistakes. Don't blame VALVe for the problems, they didn't expect such an overload (obviously.) Technically, the overload could be all of our faults.



Although, VALVe should have expected some sort of enormous downloading rampage...Counter-Strike updates are like Star Wars movies...

[NuclearTeddyBear]

ManInTheBox wrote..

Counter-Strike updates are like Star Wars movies...

What, you mean full of overweight nerds with greasy hair waiting in line for way too long due to their lack of a social life? Yes. You're right.

[RaptorRage]

Those mirror links were to the main homepages of the official websites to host the Steam 2.0 beta file, not direct links to the file. But there was one link that was posted just around 3pm pacific on that links page that was a direct link to the file from CScentral which was already leaked, so there was obviously a miscommunication about putting that link on the Steam site.



I agree on some of LuftWaffle's counter-arguments to the original article, but even though it was a beta release and not the final version, it was a public beta release which means people were in fact supposed to have the file. If it was going to be a closed beta and the files were leaked to the public that they should not have had, that would have been another matter entirely that warrants complaint.



It was just leaked before the scheduled release time, and the crap hit the fan at that point so they pulled the plug before the files became officially released to the public via the official Steam mirror sites...

[mythownz]

i think 1.6 now should be relesed as a patch cuz this steam crap is p*ssing me off enuff said