Brandon: On the half-life of Steam

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So, Best Buy breaks the street date on the long awaited Half-Life 2. I buy it, as I was planning to.

I log onto my Steam account, where I have HL2 already pre-loaded. I enter my CD-KEY. It asks me for my CD. Fine, I put it in.

I wait.

I can't play.

Let me say that again. I can't even fucking play the game I just spent good money on.

It's locked, via Steam. I can't play the game that I bought until Valve says so.

I'm pissed, incredibly pissed.

Now I understand the idea behind Steam. It's a nice content delivery system, and it is good protection against piracy. But when I can't even play the game I just bought? I mean, I have an icon on my desktop for the game already. I just can't play the damn thing. I ALREADY BOUGHT IT, I'M NOT GOING TO PIRATE IT YOU BASTARDS.

I mean, come the fuck on. I got Doom 3 a day before it came out, I still bought it when it was officaily released.

And since HL2 requires Steam to authenticate, if Valve's servers just happen to be packed on release day (and believe me, they will be) how long will I have to wait to play the game that I have already paid for? A day, maybe two until the server load goes down? Or what happens when Valve goes under due to this kind of crap? I can't play Half-Life 2 anymore, because I can't use Steam.

It just annoys me, that's all...



Mood: Pissed

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Brandon: World of Warcraft

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Now, this game frigtens me, I mean, a Blizzard MMORPG? It will be damn near perfect right.

Well, I guess we will find out, I'm trying to install the Open Beta as we speak. It's taking fricking forever though.

And I'm not too happy about Blizzard bastardizing BitTorrent for their "downloader"

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Brandon: Why?

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Why not?

It's as simple as that.

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Brandon: The problem with electronic voting machines.

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Personally, I think that it really can't be *that* hard to create them. They are just as tamper-proof as paper voting, anyway.

Where I voted, they didn't even know who cast what vote. You checked in, got a blue slip of paper, and then the voting people swiped a smart-card and logged the machine on. That kind of disturbed me, the fact that I have no real idea if my vote was cast properly or not, and there is no way to do a recount with those things.

It doesn't really matter, what matters is that I tried. I went out and voted like a good citizen. So what if Bush won, I voiced my opinion.

Mood: Headache
Music: Cake - Wheels

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Brandon: Wow...

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PVP in the Kansas City Star...

Check it out

Now read it, damnit.

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