Steam dependancy

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

It will be back up in a couple hours, why dont you read a book or watch a documentary? You know you've been putting it off.

Heh, yes I agree. It's not a big deal in the long run, but today's downtime basically obliterated 501, 64, and 401's weekly big gaming afternoon/evening which we won't get a chance to do until next weekend. So it kinda sucks.

99% of the time, Steam is great. I love it.

1% of the time I absolutely hate it.

The real thing this highlights for me is the lack of reason to even have it integrated with Steam in the first place. None of the benefits for having the game on Steam are present:

Can you join game with your friends right from the friends list? Nope.

Are the servers listed in the Steam Server listing accessible from the tray icon? Nope.

Is there a simple Steam downloadable Dedicated Server tool? Nope.

With none of the benefits of running the servers through Steam, it gets a little hard to swallow the negatives.

Anyway. We'll survive. Just a little venting. Letting off Steam, as it were