by Regulus » July 12th, 2012, 11:22 pm
[quote="Simbaholic"]If the Steam servers are down, you can't play the game you bought.
If you're not connected to the internet, you can't play the game you bought. [/quote]
There is a 'play offline' option.
[quote="Simbaholic"]Updates take foreeeeever, and Steam force updates it automatically which you can't stop so you sometimes have to wait 30+ min to play.[/quote]
Then your internet sucks. And that applies to any online game, regardless of steam.
[quote="Simbaholic"]Hugely unreliable and error prone.[/quote]
Never had any problems with it.
[quote="Misiziri"]What's so bad about Steam? For me it was only kind of slow, but that's probably just my computer.[/quote]
Yup, probably. Steam has no effect on my computer's performance, but, then again, I have a mid-range custom built desktop gaming rig that eats gigabytes for breakfast.