Valve and Half-Life 2, plus Steam, three years later

It's strange how some posts on this blog get comments even to this day, one of them being a post about how Valve's Steam was a pile of crap that seemed to drag down Half-Life. I remember even later that year, my former wife has many complaints about it.

Well, problem solved. I got the Orange Box for the Xbox 360, and I'm enjoying Half-Life 2, three years after my first try, and at a much higher resolution than I could have back then. I guess good things do come to those who wait.

But I still maintain my point from back then. Why is it that everyone who writes something for Windows insists that it always be running? 

1 Comment

  • Cool. I've run several HL communities, currently sdknuts.net, and have seen this sort of thing brought up many times.
    I'm 100% Microsoft and as such see an irony on the Valve front...
    Not intended to be rude, just find it ironic that Valve got its birth from former Microsoft developers and now Steam is more pervasive than any Microsoft software.
    Steam knows what I own, when and how I play what and to boot has one of the boldest E.U.L.A.'s in the business to protect itself.
    That sure seems to be an irony.

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