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The only people who would pay a subscription for an online game is those fat, retarded bastards who play online roleplaying games like this guy.....

http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/intarnetguido/LUNIXMAN.gif

If you like spyware and being compared to the guy above, pay $50+ for the game and $10 a month and be forced to buy a new computer, because chances are, it wont run on yours. Or if you're smart, you'll either download a warez version and steal peoples accounts to play or say "Fuck you VALVe, your ride is over. Time to go bankrupt and die", and not buy the game which will never live up to your expectations make you pay $$$ big time. So fuck VALVe, ming "goosemolester" tao and their spyware/virus infested software. You should all listen to sx, he speaks the truth.

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Just received this few minutes ago, I wonder what AUP rules I violated.

http://www.rf-mods.com/Steam-Login-Banned.png

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I'm going to be working on a few programs to help detect, log, and prevent the Steam engine from stealing information about our computers, in the near future. As well as have more information as to how Steam uses our cd-key's in association with our account's, and converting our old files into the new Steam cache platform.

 

Just some things you can be expecting.

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Anyone here who intends to buy or play, or both, Half-Life 2, NEEDS to read this thread. I also suggest the same for anyone planning or who already does, play CS v1.6:

 

http://steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=12597

 

A few highlights:

 

HL2 single player will not require you to be online, that is, until you sign onto the MP Steam network. After you login to Steam to play HL2 od CS:CZ one single time, every time after that, to play HL2 Single player, you MUST be connected to the internet or it will not work.

 

CS:CZ & CS v1.6 and HL2 MP, do NOT come on the CD, in order to play the MP versions, CS v1.6 being ONLY MP, you must run the Steam engine included on the CD, along with the Single player, and then use it to download the MP versions from the Steam content servers. Suppsedly, you will still be able to download "pre-cached" versions, that will not need to download the MP game sicne it comes "pre-cached". An exmaple of this could be the ~340Mb SteamInstall_CS.exe file. VALVe says that by disallowing us to obtain an "hard copy" of the MP game, it will stop it from being pirated and the common problem of stolen cdkeys.

 

I urge you all to read every page of the thread as it outlines and explains many of the questions everyone has.

 

Edit: only a few days left before ALL 1.5 WON Auth servers go offline and everyone is REQUIRED to use Steam to download and play Hal-Life and any of its mods online.

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CS v1.6 Steam content, auth, as well as httpd for steampowered.com and valvesoftware.com, server:

 

gw0-cust-VALVESOFTWARE-COM.tkwl.eli.net

b4d_k4rm4']The only people who would pay a subscription for an online game is those fat, retarded bastards who play online roleplaying games like this guy.....

http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/intarnetguido/LUNIXMAN.gif

 

 

Hehe, nice picture... :biggrin2:

first of all there are 3 versions of hl2 being released... umm singlepalyer only, single and multi, and another with alot of shit for the fat stupod people. the subscription is for people who choose not to go to the store and buy it (fat stupod ppl) k, now hl2 is not pay2play unless u didnt go buy it from the store. the plus to subscribing is u get all the games like tf2 and cs2,

 

i have no clue about the spyware. and the baning until 2015 is fucking bullshit because they dont tell you these "aup" rules.

they prolly banned source cuz he knows... HE KNOWS ALL THEIR SECRETS AHHHH!!!

steam is gay even without all this shit

fuck cs im tired of it anyway

i'll buy hl2, pay to play online and live with it. i don't care if they know i go to google to look up milf hunter.
i'll buy hl2, pay to play online and live with it. i don't care if they know i go to google to look up milf hunter.

aAHAHAHA ROFL !!!111111

Why is there non-Steam information in my Steam cache files? Is Steam Spyware?

 

Some users have seen non-Steam related information (like names of private files on their computer) show up inside their Steam cache files, raising privacy concerns. This is actually a result of the way Windows handles files. The cache file gets created on the client using the Windows CreateFile() command. This command will create the file but not initialize it. Due to the large size of the file, the Steam client does not initialize the empty data blocks in it as this can take an appreciable amount of time. On NTFS machines, files created with this method happen to have the property of appearing empty (initialized to zero) but for FAT32 machines, it shows up as whatever old data was sitting on drive in the sectors that just got allocated for the cache. This data is never uploaded or even read by the Steam client. Eventually, as Steam downloads more data, the old data is overwritten.

WHY THE FUCK DONT THEY JUST GET THE FUCK RID OF THE GCHAach>GCd FIELS THEN????????????????? WTF IF ITS CAUSING THAT MUCH PRBOLMEN GET RID OF THE FUCKSERS AND RENAMED A >ZIP FILAEA FOR FuCKS! SUUAKTEEE! GOSDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODD
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sourcex why u so cute? :o gj, can you proxy steam?

Yes, using Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing over a LAN, I have yet to look into this matter fully.

 

american plastic cat']sx can i link to that page about steam from my site ?

Yes.

 

that cant be your ip posted there can it?

It was until I changed it shortly after uploading the screenshot.

 

Why is there non-Steam information in my Steam cache files? Is Steam Spyware?

 

Some users have seen non-Steam related information (like names of private files on their computer) show up inside their Steam cache files, raising privacy concerns. This is actually a result of the way Windows handles files. The cache file gets created on the client using the Windows CreateFile() command. This command will create the file but not initialize it. Due to the large size of the file, the Steam client does not initialize the empty data blocks in it as this can take an appreciable amount of time. On NTFS machines, files created with this method happen to have the property of appearing empty (initialized to zero) but for FAT32 machines, it shows up as whatever old data was sitting on drive in the sectors that just got allocated for the cache. This data is never uploaded or even read by the Steam client. Eventually, as Steam downloads more data, the old data is overwritten.

What prompted me to look into this entire issue was a user on my IRC network found a list of other IRC networks he often visited inside his Steam directory in a file named steam.txt.

I pointed all of this out long time ago when STEAM was beta testing,I made a thread about it on myg0t.com warning everyone not to use this shitware. Now everyone seems to have opened their eyes I guess :rolleyes2

Well, according to this, http://www.valvesoftware.com/privacy.htm , you agreed to it by selecting that you were 13 years of age or older.

 

By using Valve's online sites and products, users agree that Valve may share with other parties aggregate information and individual information but not personally identifiable information gathered by Valve in the course of the continuing use of Valve online sites and products. "Aggregate information" is information that describes the habits, usage patterns, and demographics of users as a group but does not describe or reveal the identity of any particular user. "Individual information" is information about a user that is presented in a form distinguishable from information relating to other users but not in a form that personally identifies any user or enables the recipient to communicate directly with any user unless agreed to by the user in advance of such communication. This information may be used to improve Valve's products and online sites, for internal marketing studies, or simply to collect demographic information about Valve's users.

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