Steampowered.com: Ripoff?
What a monkey's arse I am! After wearing down my better half (who's never played MI at all) into trying MI, I ordered MI1 (the new-and-improved, remastered edition, or whatever they're calling it) through Steam, and can't download a bloody thing. Click on "install," and I get kicked back to the main page. Click on anything else, and (you guessed it) I get kicked back to the main page.
Is this Steam a fly-by-night ripoff? I have a bad feeling about this... Is my credit card number about to be sold to the highest-bidding hacker in Russia?
(If you can't tell by now, I'm angry and worried. And kicking myself. I left voicemail for "Valve," which appears to be the parent of "Steam" -- which also worries me: i.e., any company worth two bits should have 24/7 live support.)
Do you Steam customers have such problems? Is the company legit, or...?
Is this Steam a fly-by-night ripoff? I have a bad feeling about this... Is my credit card number about to be sold to the highest-bidding hacker in Russia?
(If you can't tell by now, I'm angry and worried. And kicking myself. I left voicemail for "Valve," which appears to be the parent of "Steam" -- which also worries me: i.e., any company worth two bits should have 24/7 live support.)
Do you Steam customers have such problems? Is the company legit, or...?
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Valve is one of the biggest names in PC gaming nowadays. Steam is almost bigger than the name of its parent company. Whatever your opinion on the company, pretty much everyone interested in PC gaming knows these names.
Steampowered.com is the legitimate URL for this company. Did you install the Steam client? Steam requires that its(fairly lightweight) client run in the background for you to play the game.
If you don't have the client, download it. It's on the left side, Under "Browse games" and the different genres.
I love Steam. I have 75 games on the service and I've never had problems.
And don't worry, your credit card details are perfectly secure.
If you guys say it's legit, then I will sleep better tonight without worrying that my credit card # has made it 'round the world. Until tomorrow, at least.
Still a sucky system -- and it's not "new tech" that "scares" me, kids -- I'm a Silicon Valley geek from the days before most of you were born -- it's the torture of being strung through an endless loop that makes no bloody sense. (Yep, I would have designed the entire system differently -- and the Steam people are more than welcome to ask me how. I used to design end-luser UIs for a living, and theirs "ain't ham" -- and does not inspire confidence or trust.)
If you have a problem with Steam go to Steam. All I can tell you is that I am totally satisfied with it.
As much fun as a batch interface would be, I think Steam will pass on your offer.
*Edit: waiting to be downloaded, I should say.
In any case, thanks for the one kind response, Woodsy.
Sorry to bother all the rest of you "real" gamers. I'll log out and leave you all to it.
If it's any consolation I was lost the first time I used Steam too. I think it kind of like learner drivers. Everybody hates to see them on the road* but they forget that they too had to had to go through that period. I really don't mean any disrespect. Everyone has to start somewhere
*In Australia Lerner drivers have to display a yellow sticker in the corner of the back and front windows so that everybody knows they are a learner.
This is *usually* one of the nicer forums around. Don't let this thread put you off.
They are as trustworthy as Telltale. Isn't that right guys? Guys? Hey, why do I have a bill for 500 "bochka" of Premium Vodka? :eek:
The first battle axes were also created to slay giant cyclops creatures that once plagued the lands of ancient Greece. It's true. I wikipedia'd it.
But really, Valve are one of the most well known, trustworthy, and successful companies around, so you have no worries dealing with them.
And I still have 5-6 more in the uninstalled tab :cool:
If the OP's still about, don't worry, Steam's legit, although the client can be buggy, Valve's support's a bit notorious...so I hear, either way your details are safe and you'll be playing Monkey sooner rather than later
http://storefront.steampowered.com/download/SteamInstall.msi
You would probably find that Blizzard are more Successful.
At selling their own games, maybe. Valve gets a nice cut of every game sold on Steam.
Yeah, That was what I was referring to, I consider the two parts of valve separate: one for the Development and the other as the sales platform. In a similar way to which I separate opinions of developers and their respective owners.
I dunno, Valve are pretty huge.
I don't really think of Blizzard as a PC games company. They're more of a giant factory out in California that stores people in pods, Matrix-style, while simultaneously siphoning them of their life and their cash.
I'm sure Blizzard's marketing team disagrees, but for the moment I remain unconvinced.
It's the only game they've made since 2004. That's a majority of the decade right there.
...that seems extremely strange, what video card do you have?
I've had 5+ different video cards in my various PCs since TF2 came out, and not one has ever had a single problem with it. Did you use ATI or something?
I've never encountered any issues with Source and ATI. Valve seems to be friendly with both Nvidia and ATI.
Seems to me like there's a non-card related issue. TF2 hasn't been prettied up *that* much. I have a 3450 (a.k.a. low-end placeholder card), and I can run TF2 maxed out.
On my new PC I can't run TF2 that well too. Have to have the game on low or its like stop motion cinema. I always put that down to my graphics card being a bit outdated though, 7600gt.
PC Games disagree with me. DX
My old graphics card was ATI lol. I've switched to Nvidia since.
This is not a graphical program. It's just that Valve haven't optimized TF2 at all, thus sapping your FPS. It's a common issue, I get it too. If you're willing to continue playing it, Run it on DX8/8.1 and you should get a good 10-20 FPS back.
I just remembered that when HL2 came out, they advertised it as being optimized for ATI, but that was way back when the 9800s were the best cards on the market, heh.
We got thirsty.
I think it was a 9800 that I got. Or maybe 9600, but it was the best at the time, and it could run HL2 at max graphics.
But yeah, they mustn't have optimized TF2 much. I got black textures when playing, characters turned invisible and you could only see floating heads, walls went invisible and when you zoomed in as a sniper the screen went black...
And once everything went pink.
You got very thirsty
It's pretty much an online game store, the biggest one in existence actually. I think. Yeah, it is.
It has a lot of community features and stuff, which I think draws a lot of people to it. I've only used it for a couple things, but I think it's a nice setup for the most part. Plus they often have pretty exciting sales and bundles.
They definitely could have optimized it a lot more.