Yes, but he said he couldn't remember the name of the official site so I was unnecessarily pointing out the flaw in his clever allegorical lie as a way to voice my dissatisfaction at his dislike of steam.

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DFM called my lie "clever"! :D

See, I dislike it because I played CS before steam arrived. There was none of this 'Friends' list, there were no adverts for new Valve games, no darn background program you had to launch to play CS. Nope, just pure unadulterated CS. I miss that.

That's why I dislike Steam. It took something relatively awesome and then beat it about the face with a ice pick.

I have no stability problems with Steam. I just don't see any benefit from it.

If my game is unstable, it's not exactly rocket science to get the latest patch off the Net.
I like to have a disc with my games, so I don't use it to buy stuff.
If I want a free mod I can use Google.

On the downside:
It did force me to wait for Half-Life2 for over a year as I heard it's a real PITA on 56k.
If I want to play my perfectly stable HL2 I don't want to wait 5 minutes for it to dl and install a patch/update.

Don't hate it, but I would be just as happy (or happier) if it dissapeared tomorrow.

I thought that's the normal response to playing CS to begin with...

I primarily love it as a direct to drive purchasing program.

Mine just won't work in offline mode.

Thanks to Steam? Don't you mean thanks to ME? Cuz i'm pretty sure it was ME who gifted you my unneeded copy of Half-Life 2.

Owned.

Anywho, like Loki, I played CS pre-Steam and was rather happy. My biggest problem with Steam is that my dad got the Orange Box and we have separate Steam accounts. This lead to disaster. Not only can I not play Portal on my computer now, but I can't rip all the sound files from it getting all the separate glados voice files like I want to =(