master valve said: STOP PLAYING HL2 NOW!

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Shawk wrote:

> Yes. Been going on for a few hours. Some can, some can't. No idea
> what is causing it.

oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?

and no one has idea of what is causing it? oh what a shame... you valve
gamers being so knowledge its a such a disgrace what valve is doing to
you poor souls left all alone without hl2 to play with

listen to this all you steam lovers!!!!
this is the proof of what i've been telling all along!!!

you only play hl2 when MASTER VALVE lets you!!!
at this time the MASTER doesn't want to be disturbed, its resting, so
go out and do some walk in the park cause the time is for NO HL2!!!
all you loyal valve SERVANTS will do what you're told!!!

i now feel i'm having my revenge

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You know, this thing happens with public servers once in a while. I
remember when Sierra's Nascar servers lost track of all user histories
for a month! We got over it, and we still race all the time.

 

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> i now feel i'm having my revenge
>
> --

No, you're having another "attack".

Just out of curiosity, what games, if any, have you played ? You have never
posted about anything else apart from the Steam/Valve/HL-2.
Have you bought Chronicles of Riddick yet ? Or downloaded it ?

Im starting to think that you are actually a pissed of warez kiddie with a
grudge against any anti-piracy measures.

 

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
<john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?

They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.

 

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It is playable at any time if you're not a knuckle-head. You only need to
have an off-line blob file saved on your hard drive. If you can't access
steam you simply start steam with the off-line blob file. It's not rocket
science for anybody with common sense.

DaveL


"David Seiver" <Nonya@bizniss.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
> <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>
>>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
>
> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.
>

 

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David Seiver wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
> <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>
>
>>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
>
>
> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.
>

Just MP or what?

 

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"Walter Mitty" <mitticus@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> David Seiver wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
>> <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>>>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
>>
>>
>> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
>> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.
>>
>
> Just MP or what?

No, Walter, it was impossible to play single player, multiplayer, or
anything normally accessed via Steam.

 

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you need steam to play a single player game ?

 

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> you need steam to play a single player game ?
>

ffs.
That's some rock you must have been under.

 

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"Walter Mitty" <mitticus@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> David Seiver wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
>> <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>>>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
>>
>>
>> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
>> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.
>>
>
> Just MP or what?

As if that's an excuse.

 

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Why don't you and Moore join forces and write a 'documentary' about Valve
and Steam.

 

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Schrodinger wrote:
>
> No, Walter, it was impossible to play single player, multiplayer, or
> anything normally accessed via Steam.

Impossible to play single player? It works fine all the time here. I just
never let Steam connect.

--
Paul

 

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"Chuck" wrote

> you need steam to play a single player game ?
>
You need the file content management system (in short Steam) to be running
in order to start any games from Valve which as based on the source engine

Oh am I glad that my hybernate functionality in XP is working so good, uhh
yeahh

- Peter

 

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David Seiver wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
> <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>
>
>>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
>
>
> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.

Hell I just saw Alone in the Dark...Shouldn't I be able to see a good
movie "out of the box?"

 

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:38:23 -0000, "redTed" <redted@nthellworld.com>
wrote:

>> you need steam to play a single player game ?
>>
>
>ffs.
>That's some rock you must have been under.
>

lol! Thanks for the chuckle.

Erik

 

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Chuck wrote:
> you need steam to play a single player game ?


steam or the steam servers? steam lets you play offline too. I missed
the OP. Whats the issue here?

 

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SpammersDie wrote:
> "Walter Mitty" <mitticus@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ctj0dt$cep$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>
>>David Seiver wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
>>><john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
>>>>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
>>>
>>>
>>>They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
>>>which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.
>>>
>>
>>Just MP or what?
>
>
> As if that's an excuse.
>
>

yeah, cos MP servers never crash eh?

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"Schrodinger" <no@way.com> wrote in message
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>>> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
>>> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.


Um... Offline mode works perfectly fine on my machine... Just closed teh
Steam client, unplugged my PC from my router, restarted the Steam client in
Offline mode and played HL2 for an hour. Way I see it, the game should be
playable even if the Steam servers are down (client had no internet access
the whole time I was playing), so I'd love to know what the original poster
was smoking.

 

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:18:11 -0000, "redTed" <redted@nthellworld.com>
wrote:


>
>Im starting to think that you are actually a pissed of warez kiddie with a
>grudge against any anti-piracy measures.
>


Starting ?
What took so long?

 

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"Walter Mitty" <mitticus@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> David Seiver wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0000, difool
> > <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>oh god! what a tragedy! a few hours without hl2!
> >>so tell us are you in lots of pain being deprived of your precious hl2?
> >
> >
> > They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
> > which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.
> >
>
> Just MP or what?

Here's a link to Steam Forum where some additional info has been posted.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=03192cc830c7f7975cc01f198ab9c16e&threadid=238449

 

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Schrodinger wrote:
> No, Walter, it was impossible to play single player, multiplayer, or
> anything normally accessed via Steam.

Single-player works fine, you muppet. Just coz some server's gone
belly-up on the other side of the world doesn't mean my PC will crash
in sympathy.

 

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:09:04 -0500, "Paul Fedorenko"
<pfedorenko@bite-me.look.ca> wrote:

>Um... Offline mode works perfectly fine on my machine... Just closed teh
>Steam client, unplugged my PC from my router, restarted the Steam client in
>Offline mode and played HL2 for an hour.

Don't you thin it's a little strange or unusual to have to unplug your
PC from the Internet to play offline ? Why doesn't Valve just add an
option not to connect ? Why ?

 

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, David Seiver wrote:

> They are deprived of using something which they have paid for, and
> which should be available and able to be playable 100% of the time.

off course!!!! i'm 100% with you!
it unbelievable what's happening! and i'm just trying to help!
i've been saying all along, STEAM IS BAD! STEAM IS WRONG!
please don't accept STEAM!!!!! DON'T!!!!!
this is the proof how damaging STEAM IS!
they have been deprived for about 14 hours of a game you payed for!
so please now tell VALVE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND STOP IT!!!
VALVE TAKE STEAM AWAY FROM HL2 RIGHT NOW!!!!

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, "Chuck" wrote:

> you need steam to play a single player game ?

and the answer is YES
isn't it the most unbelievable thing ever to happen in pc games?
i also didn't want to believe it and only when it came out in
the 13th of november did i have the proof about the insanely
impossible happening
hl2 single-player games requires steam a internet spy/monitor to
install and play
after this what should we do?
laugh out loud about how bizarre the situation is, or cry desperately
about how low pc games have reached

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, "OldDog" wrote:

> Here's a link to Steam Forum where some additional info has been posted.

you post the link but remain very quiet... right?
you are like those brainwashed valve gamers who can only say "i forgive
valve, for valve anything"
so depressing reading that forum... only seeing gamers telling they don't
mind cause its valve
completely disgusting
its really scary reading it

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