You can disable that feature, and again patches are not exclusive to Steam.

This topic is going to get closed soon. I think I'll make another one.

I concur. Dead horse seems to be possessed by a demon and we need another thread for exorcism.

It is possible to turn off automatic updates for whichever games you choose.

rest assured, I'll laugh maniacally for about 2 minutes, then I'll feel terrible for you since I know how bad it svcks without high speed.

@Oni: ROFL. Yeah, I've had to deal with dial-up since I first got onto the internet, and man does it svck. The hours of watching a progress bar svcks(I'm watching one right now actually). When I die, I'll beg the afterlife deity to skip over any portion of my life involving dial-up.

I think it'd be better if you didn't.

A lot of people are talking about this, and it's an important issue. It's worth more discussion, even though theres been a lot of topics on it already.

I disagree, personally

For a long time the only access I had was 56k dialup at my fathers place (and I lived with my mother). Then I moved out, and a year or two later ADSL was installed on that exchange :laugh:. But I moved to Melbourne, and now a' days I'm on ADSL2+ with unlimited downloads :twirl:.

I feel for you, bro. Diaup would svck even worse these days, due to the increase in the assumed bandwidth.

And a lot of that talk has been the same stuff over and over again :shrug:.

I despise Steam and I have no misconceptions about it whatsoever.

Yup.

Steam is pretty much varies from person to person...

Didn't have any problems until Civ IV and Space Rangers..

How do you know his name is Personally? :huh:

It'll probably all be presented via some cosmic monitor, a look back at your life, but the celestial ISPs will be on a heavenly form of dial-up or something. I don't reckon the gods have broadband. lol I'll skip it too.



Ya. There was a poll in the New Vegas forum just after release. For Steam being required. The overwhelming result was "No". It got into the hundreds of votes. Dunno if it's been deleted. I'll check my post history, I posted in it. lol

Edit: I think http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1122499-why-steam/ is it. I ended up just searching New vegas Steam, my post history is all over the place. There were too many Steam topics at the time. Results are pretty even I guess, I seem to remember a poll with a clearer margin, but whatever. Even results... reinforces my opinion that Steam should be optional. lol

The problem is, not enough of those people who voted "No" are willing to actually vote with their wallet on the matter, so http://gamebane.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/boycotters-playing-modern-warfare-2.jpg

You saying "No" is only worth something if you stick with it.

Yeah, you're right. But it was more geared toward gauging whether people want it or not. Not would they disregard a game that ships with it, it had been announced long before that Vegas was using Steam, then came the topics in uproar and the battle commenced in those threads, for Steam, against Steam, on it goes. But once announced it all leaned more toward do people actually want it? I guess. lol

How have the admins not noticed that this topic hasn't reach the post limit yet?

How have the admins not noticed that this topic hasn't reach the post limit yet?

the only moderator logged ATM is summer & she may be busy

I am tempted to report my post to bring it to their attention, Should I?

This thread has reached it's post limit. And yes indeed...I am very busy atm. Sorry it took so long.