Steam - Updating...

[Agamemnon]

3% and...

*3 hours later*

3%

Is it always this bad when it comes to updating Steaming pile of crap?

[Limited]

Weird, I just started steam to check and it took about 15 seconds to download, it then said to restart steam..

[Agamemnon]

Well, I'm about to bomb their corporate offices. This piece of shit keeps on crashing for no odd reason.

[rossmum]

It never gives me trouble. :|

Ok, it has once... but I just needed to restart it.

[Agamemnon]

I'll give that a try then.

[Agamemnon]

Nope! Sorry, still a Steaming pile of shit. Seriously. You don't even understand how much this pisses me off. If you're ever in the neighborhood of GameFAQs.com check out the review for Half-Life 2; you'll find that I wrote one and the score is seriously affected by Steam.

[k4is3rxkh40s]

My half life source is perma-frozen at 3% >.> It wont update past it at all.

[Pooky]

Nope! Sorry, still a Steaming pile of shit. Seriously. You don't even understand how much this pisses me off. If you're ever in the neighborhood of GameFAQs.com check out the review for Half-Life 2; you'll find that I wrote one and the score is seriously affected by Steam.

Steam gives me a lot of trouble, but it's never anything I can't fix by restarting it then telling it what a miserable little failure it is

[rossmum]

Maybe your local Steam content servers suck?

[WhÎþLå§h ÐÆmØÑ]

Yeah, I have no problems with Steam, but of course they are only a couple miles away.

[rossmum]

They're a couple of thousand away for me, and I haven't had any serious issues.

[Jelly]

Yeah, I have no problems with Steam, but of course they are only a couple miles away.


So you can go over there and ask them what's wrong?

[mR_r0b0to]

reinstall?

[Syuusuke]

Clean up the Steaming pile of shit?

You'll need a lot of people for that =)

[Agamemnon]

Right now I'm not sure what to do. I don't see why I would have to reinstall, considering the problem is Steam, and after you've bought $70 worth of software that needs Steam to run, you can imagine how pissed off one can be. I've asked at their forums but they claim it to be a problem on my side, saying "your firewall is conflicting with updates." I'm sure it would be, if it was on during updates, but since it wasn't, I highly doubt that. Others suggest that it's some other damn complex problem where I must root out complex errors and move this and that in a remote file folder and then...Well, you get the picture.

NO ONE should EVER have to go into any system folder to fix a God damn program that is "supposedly" to simplify things like downloads and updates. Not a single damn person. Why should I, after not touching a single damn Valve/Steam file, also suffer such user support? "DER, it must be your problem. There are 548,692 different possibilities; all can be found within our 6,982 FAQs. Good luck."

Where's a middle finger smilie when you want one.

[CN3089]

Never had a problem with it. Steam is awesome. http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-neckbeard.gif

[Atty]

My only problems with Steam are fixed with an easy 3 second restart. :|

[I_Am_Error117]

Sounds like your screwed.


Like everyone else said I wuld just reninstall I mean how long could that take?

[Atty]

Sounds like your screwed.


Like everyone else said I wuld just reninstall I mean how long could that take?Depending on how many games he has, a long time.

[I_Am_Error117]

So how does steam work I've been looking at it for a couple days.....

[Agamemnon]

Depending on how many games he has, a long time.
Half-Life 2: Single Player
Half-Life 2: Multi Player
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life: Source
Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Garry's Mod

Yeah, it wasn't exactly a picnic.


So how does steam work
At random intervals, the server performs a random action, such as quiting unexpectedly, not working, downloading false updates, and telling you that you don't own the games you've bought. Most of the times it doesn't work at all.

[n00b1n8R]

steams been fucking up on me lately >.>

CSS has just been crashing out of the blue >:(

[CN3089]

At random intervals, the server performs a random action, such as quiting unexpectedly, not working, downloading false updates, and telling you that you don't own the games you've bought. Most of the times it doesn't work at all.

Well, there's only one explanation.



Champ hacked it.

[Champ]

sry i hacked ur computer


just reformat everything will be alright.

[Pooky]

At random intervals, the server performs a random action, such as quiting unexpectedly, not working, downloading false updates, and telling you that you don't own the games you've bought. Most of the times it doesn't work at all.


I got that one once, told me I didn't own a single one of my 8 games. I got so pissed off at them I actually got a new CD key

[Agamemnon]

To CN3089 and Champ: Can't you fondle each other only at GBH? You kids are too funny.

[CN3089]

I'm sorry but a Champ hacking is nothing to joke about, you should really reformat your computer.

[Champ]

To CN3089 and Champ: Can't you fondle each other only at GBH? You kids are too funny.
sry but i do my fondling in public :XD:

[WhÎþLå§h ÐÆmØÑ]

Champ, CN, stop.

[Limited]

Some one I know got banned from a game he didnt even have...

[rossmum]

Right now I'm not sure what to do. I don't see why I would have to reinstall, considering the problem is Steam, and after you've bought $70 worth of software that needs Steam to run, you can imagine how pissed off one can be. I've asked at their forums but they claim it to be a problem on my side, saying "your firewall is conflicting with updates." I'm sure it would be, if it was on during updates, but since it wasn't, I highly doubt that. Others suggest that it's some other damn complex problem where I must root out complex errors and move this and that in a remote file folder and then...Well, you get the picture.

NO ONE should EVER have to go into any system folder to fix a God damn program that is "supposedly" to simplify things like downloads and updates. Not a single damn person. Why should I, after not touching a single damn Valve/Steam file, also suffer such user support? "DER, it must be your problem. There are 548,692 different possibilities; all can be found within our 6,982 FAQs. Good luck."

Where's a middle finger smilie when you want one.
Has your modem got an inbuilt firewall, or is that off too?


My only problems with Steam are fixed with an easy 3 second restart. :|
Same.

[Agamemnon]

No, the modem doesn't have a built-in firewall. I'll probably uninstall when I get around to it. If that doesn't work, then I'll probably just download a crack to play the games without Steam.

[Agamemnon]

Well, by some profound miracle, it finally decided to work and is downloading the updates to the games now. Topic closed.