Canned myself while reading this
Here's one of the 99 replies..
Quote: Jackal #65
I would like to share my honest views of Valve and Steam with everyone. I bought Halflife II two years ago at a retail store in South Africa, like I do with all the games I like and want to OWN.
Now let me explain something about South Africa. Our internet infrastructure is monopolized by Telkom, the only telephone network in the country. The result is very slow internet speeds, which we pay through our asses for. A typical 512mb line would cost you around $100 for rental per month. On top of that you have to buy a capped account. A 3Gb account would cost you another $50. On top of that the ONLY Power Utility company in our country,ESKOM, cannot supply enough electricity to satisfy the growing demand. We were told this will take until 2012 to be reftified. The result is what they call “load-shedding”, where they cut the power without warning on a VERY regular basis, which causes our internet connections to go down on a very regular basis.
This scenario makes it almost impossible to play my LEGAL COPY of Halflife II, that I bought LEGALLY in the retail store near me, which had NO f**king mention of any f**king STEAM bulls**t that requires an internet connection. In the two years I have OWNED a LEGAL copy of Halflife, I am yet to be able to play the game, which has cost me more than 10 times the price I have payed for the f**king game to start with (constant theft of STEAM of my bandwith).
So my view of Valve and Steam is this. I have taken your game CD’s (All 5 of them) and beaten them to pieces with my OWN LEGAL hammer, packaged it nicely back into the box you thieving mutherf**kers have given me, wrapped it all in nice giftwrap, and have just today mailed it to you, at MY OWN EXPENCE. So either the CEO of Valve, or the CEO of STEAM (maybe the same f**king prick), can decide which one of the two of you will have the honours of slowly inserting every fragment of the CD’s of the BULLS**T game that you sold me up your A**ES. But please, as a favour, do it SLOWLY so you can feel the pain you a**holes cause us, YOUR VALUED PAYING CUSTOMERS, with the crap you sold us. And then you can take the money you have STOLEN from me, and go have the crap surgically removed from your fat a**es.
Last, but not least, I would like to say this to Valve and STEAM executives. F**K YOU and all your bulls**t games, neither me, nor any of the gamers in South Africa will be supporting ANY GAME that is associated with STEAM. We work too f**king hard for our hard-earned cash in South Africa to waste it on TOTAL F**KING S**T like this.
Hope that clears what we in South Africa think of Valve and STEAM!!!!
P.S. I see the Orange Box is now on special
Here's one of the 99 replies..
Quote: Jackal #65
I would like to share my honest views of Valve and Steam with everyone. I bought Halflife II two years ago at a retail store in South Africa, like I do with all the games I like and want to OWN.
Now let me explain something about South Africa. Our internet infrastructure is monopolized by Telkom, the only telephone network in the country. The result is very slow internet speeds, which we pay through our asses for. A typical 512mb line would cost you around $100 for rental per month. On top of that you have to buy a capped account. A 3Gb account would cost you another $50. On top of that the ONLY Power Utility company in our country,ESKOM, cannot supply enough electricity to satisfy the growing demand. We were told this will take until 2012 to be reftified. The result is what they call “load-shedding”, where they cut the power without warning on a VERY regular basis, which causes our internet connections to go down on a very regular basis.
This scenario makes it almost impossible to play my LEGAL COPY of Halflife II, that I bought LEGALLY in the retail store near me, which had NO f**king mention of any f**king STEAM bulls**t that requires an internet connection. In the two years I have OWNED a LEGAL copy of Halflife, I am yet to be able to play the game, which has cost me more than 10 times the price I have payed for the f**king game to start with (constant theft of STEAM of my bandwith).
So my view of Valve and Steam is this. I have taken your game CD’s (All 5 of them) and beaten them to pieces with my OWN LEGAL hammer, packaged it nicely back into the box you thieving mutherf**kers have given me, wrapped it all in nice giftwrap, and have just today mailed it to you, at MY OWN EXPENCE. So either the CEO of Valve, or the CEO of STEAM (maybe the same f**king prick), can decide which one of the two of you will have the honours of slowly inserting every fragment of the CD’s of the BULLS**T game that you sold me up your A**ES. But please, as a favour, do it SLOWLY so you can feel the pain you a**holes cause us, YOUR VALUED PAYING CUSTOMERS, with the crap you sold us. And then you can take the money you have STOLEN from me, and go have the crap surgically removed from your fat a**es.
Last, but not least, I would like to say this to Valve and STEAM executives. F**K YOU and all your bulls**t games, neither me, nor any of the gamers in South Africa will be supporting ANY GAME that is associated with STEAM. We work too f**king hard for our hard-earned cash in South Africa to waste it on TOTAL F**KING S**T like this.
Hope that clears what we in South Africa think of Valve and STEAM!!!!
P.S. I see the Orange Box is now on special
