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General discussion (archive)Steam, Impulse, whatever else your heart desire bashing(894 posts)(894 posts)
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Posted April 21, 2009
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michaelleung: Well, it's either GCF/NCF.
that's what I said.
Posted May 11, 2009
Shitting astrochrist, I'm pissed at Steam right now. I decided to move my entire Steam installation to another hard drive, by using the backup copy system in Steam. With that, I backup'd close to 40GB of data. Now, the donkey fellating ineptitude of the grinning dickmongling coders of that putrid shit made sure that the crap couldn't do the cunting fuck it was supposed to. It does not install the games properly, and I've spent the last 6 hours (not counting the ages I spent last night) trying to get it working properly. I'm managing it, but holy hell...
Posted May 11, 2009
You should start reviewing old, shitty games and videotaping it. You'll make millions.
Posted May 11, 2009
Seriously...
Posted May 11, 2009
he's gonna take you back to the past...
to play the shitty games that suck ass..
Posted May 11, 2009
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sheepdragon: Shitting astrochrist, I'm pissed at Steam right now. I decided to move my entire Steam installation to another hard drive, by using the backup copy system in Steam. With that, I backup'd close to 40GB of data. Now, the donkey fellating ineptitude of the grinning dickmongling coders of that putrid shit made sure that the crap couldn't do the cunting fuck it was supposed to. It does not install the games properly, and I've spent the last 6 hours (not counting the ages I spent last night) trying to get it working properly. I'm managing it, but holy hell...

I went through something similar, but thankfully, I had only Mass Effect from Steam, so it wasn't nearly as big a hassle. But it damned well sucked that it didn't work the way it was supposed to. My sympathies on your plight.
Posted May 11, 2009
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sheepdragon: Shitting astrochrist, I'm pissed at Steam right now. I decided to move my entire Steam installation to another hard drive, by using the backup copy system in Steam. With that, I backup'd close to 40GB of data. Now, the donkey fellating ineptitude of the grinning dickmongling coders of that putrid shit made sure that the crap couldn't do the cunting fuck it was supposed to. It does not install the games properly, and I've spent the last 6 hours (not counting the ages I spent last night) trying to get it working properly. I'm managing it, but holy hell...

what I did to move my steam installation to another drive
copy C:/programfiles/steam
paste to d:/
Posted May 11, 2009
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Weclock: what I did to move my steam installation to another drive
copy C:/programfiles/steam
paste to d:/

Is it really that simple? I didn't think of that, because of the registry settings wouldn't come properly (and copying 40GB of data that way would be more unstable than the way I did it... Lawdy!). Well, I've managed to fix it now. And I might be dropping AVGN a mail... I think he might need some new obscenities.
Posted May 11, 2009
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Weclock: what I did to move my steam installation to another drive
copy C:/programfiles/steam
paste to d:/
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sheepdragon: Is it really that simple? I didn't think of that, because of the registry settings wouldn't come properly (and copying 40GB of data that way would be more unstable than the way I did it... Lawdy!). Well, I've managed to fix it now. And I might be dropping AVGN a mail... I think he might need some new obscenities.
Yes, it is, the games will set the necessary registry files upon the first run.
Posted May 11, 2009
Both Steam and Impulse are good for what they bring us, which are new games that are digital downloads. I actually like owning the game, so I'll go to the store if I can.
GOG is something completely different, so it's not like it can replace Valve's giant client.
Posted May 12, 2009
So what are the exact differences between steam and impulse? I've only used impulse (and am quite satisfied with it) and have always stayed away from steam just because of the negative buzz around it. But actually I don't know much about it =P
Someone who has experience with both care to fill me in?
Posted May 12, 2009
On Steam you can't play your games without Steam, on Impulse you can play your games without it but Impulse is needed for updates. That is the simple difference between them.
Posted May 12, 2009
Well, aside from the fact Steam treats you, it's paying customer, as a dirt by regional restrictions and different prices (thou I believe Steam was pretty much forced to do so by suits in EA and Ubisoft - and, frankly, why the hell would Steam let chance to get these 2 let slide?), you couldn't play Steam's games after it goes down (but it's pretty obvious it won't), and yes, you can't play it's games without Steam launched (it HAS offline mode).
Yeah, that's pretty much it...
Posted May 12, 2009
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Fenixp: Well, aside from the fact Steam treats you, it's paying customer, as a dirt by regional restrictions and different prices (thou I believe Steam was pretty much forced to do so by suits in EA and Ubisoft - and, frankly, why the hell would Steam let chance to get these 2 let slide?), you couldn't play Steam's games after it goes down (but it's pretty obvious it won't), and yes, you can't play it's games without Steam launched (it HAS offline mode).
Yeah, that's pretty much it...

DOS games in Steam are alright though. They used DOSBox, and the Steam stuff only launches a batch file, so the games are easy to extract from the Steam folder and placed somewhere else.
Posted May 12, 2009
There's alot i don't like about Steam, but the single most negative point about the service is the complete lack of communication with its customers.
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