Saturday, July 21st 2007
Steam Community Launching This Month
Valve has confirmed that the Steam Community, the studio's social networking and online multiplayer extensions for its popular game download service, will launch in beta form "at the end of the month," meaning gamers will have to wait no more than a week and a half to get their hands on the new features. First announced last month, the Steam Community promises features such as voice chat support, user profiles and groups, organized matches, and opponent tracking. "This latest update is just the start," said Valve founder Gabe Newell when Community was announced. "We've got a long list of items that we're working on to make it easier for gamers to connect and play games on Steam."
Source:
Shacknews
30 Comments on Steam Community Launching This Month
Steam Support never responds, and Steam only starts every fifth time on my machine, and I am not the only one with this problem.
Steam has ALWAYS worked for me...
Its so damn easy to use, hogs no resources, and works.
Its also free...no subscription charges.
And they continue to update games that are several years old.
IMO, Steam is a great idea. And it has alot of potential for future growth.
Steam works great for meh. Always has.
After that you boot steam and it will redownload all your updates.
But it pisses me off when it sez "Servers busy to handle your request". grrrr
A) Doesnt have broadband
or...
B) Sucks at managing their PC and has loads of malware which causes steam to malfunction (Among other programs)
I have-use
Comodo Firewall, Ad Aware, Hijack This, NAT-hacked DSL firewall, Spybot, AVG Free Anti-Virus, AVG Free Spyware protection, Three rootkit detectors, system rules for executables, and numerous other system cleanup and cloise downs using X-Setup Pro or doing it myself.
I also regularly dump all my temp files, and watch active processes. Even with all this in place I get on average 2-3 IP scans with possible intent, javascripting ads that like TRY to download trojans-adware-spyware or general crap.
If you haven't seen a virus or adware warning that involves more than a tracking cookie for a week, you are either not really surfing the net, or have issues.
I think I will go play, COD, or COD2, or HL2, or HL, or CS:S mebey host a few friends, or play against bots, or many other up to date games.
I have a heap of other "just in case" programs around though :).
Your problem is probably related to your internet connection, router etc.
I cant see a download stopping like that unless a timeout is occuring and with a good internet connection you shouldnt get any of them. Perhaps being caused by firewall? :ohwell:
On slow internet (or if you cant connect to a local steam server) it can take upto 3 minutes to connect to steam.
Ending the task and doing it again, you're merely delaying the process as steam checks for updates.
The Download was "stuck" at ~49% for 3 weeks. I have a 2Mbps Internet connection (DSL)
And when I said that Steam wont launch, it just wont, nothing happens it just appears in the current processes but I cannot open it.
Anyhow, does anyone else think that this is simular to Microsoft's Live system for the XBOX and soon to be for windows platform? I don't personaly own an XBOX and have never used Live but from what I've read, this new steam service seems somewhat simular to me. If so, I definitely welcome it as I have no intention on using anything else from MS other than what I have to!
as for mine it gets 'stuck' as you have said, all the time - in fact every time i start steam, and 2-3 minutes later its always fired up and working. Also as i said, it doesnt matter what speed your net is, if steam connects you to a server halfway around the world (which DOES happen sometimes, and is a valid problem with steam)
the 49% 'stuck download' is due to a corrupt download, which i guess can be caused by end-tasking steam all the time...
as inflammatory as my comment was, i didnt mean for this to turn into a flame war. I just got aggravated at the fact you say its broken/crap, and in the same post mention how you end task it because its 'stuck' - without coming to the conclusion that just maybe the program doesnt get along well with being terminated while its doing things.
The online thing sucks too.