Buying Games off Steam

Grimspoon

Grimspoon

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Hi Guys,

I curious to hear what other people have experienced when buying games off Steam....I have HL2 + Orange box and im keen to get CS 1.6 (not enjoying CSS) and It seems pretty cheap off steam ($9.99).

Anyone bought off Steam?

Thanks
Grim
 
I always buy off Steam and each time I am happy with it, bought 20 games from it so far :)
You need not worry, Vavle is a very trusted company
 
One more thing - is there still a fairly big 1.6 community going? I know there are servers up but are they busy?
 
Grimspoon said:
Not sure what you mean. . . but if you refering to downloading cs 1.6, I have already done that, just need to purchase the key.
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What I meant to say was can you download using a local only ADSL account using routesentry or similar?
 
Grimspoon said:
One more thing - is there still a fairly big 1.6 community going? I know there are servers up but are they busy?
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I suspect that those that do still play 1.6 are pretty darn good so expect to get your @ss handed to you.:o
 
1.6 is dead, sorry to tell you. only way to play is on pickups, the servers never have anyone on.
 
Instead of Steam, you can download at full line speed from Softpedia, it will install the game to your steam account
 
Who can confirm about local downloads of Steam games from IS?

I don't disbelieve it, I just want more details like, do I have to have an IS account for example? Will any local only allow me Steam downloads? Will local only be auto prioritised over international (i.e. if running Route Sentry)

Also how well does Steams' built in games back-up utility work? In the past I have just copied across my whole Steam folder when backing up, with a bit of messing around, but it did work.

http://www.botc.co.za/index.php/con...ent-server-up-and-running-thanks-to-is-gaming
 
Who can confirm about local downloads of Steam games from IS?
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Not me, my downloads are still coming from international IPs, speeds are decent though, but local bandwidth usage would be really cool to have.

Also how well does Steams' built in games back-up utility work? In the past I have just copied across my whole Steam folder when backing up, with a bit of messing around, but it did work.
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I use the built in backup utility, and it works pretty well. I've also done the 'move the steam folder' thing when I popped in a new hard drive. So use whatever is most convenient for you I guess.
 
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