A petition to Valve regarding Half Life 2 and STEAM

"Even worse than the horrible CD protections used by Epic and Microsoft."

"Great idea, just needs to be finalised and propperly tested before mainstream use."

"steam is a pain in the ass sometimes City, State Leeuwarden, the Netherlands"

"they only want our money City, State В"

"I would not have bought this game had I known about this issue ahead of time"

"I bought the game, but don't have internet (can't afford it) so I can't play. Ridiculous. Make a phone-in system or something. I OWN THE GAME AND CAN'T PLAY IT. No excuse for that, not everybody can afford an internet connection. I'm probably just going t"

"I am one of them who use a 56k Modem! I think encoding the CD to Starforce3 would of sufficed. City, State Huntingdon, UK."

"Clearly should be a violation of single-player gaming, its bad enough knowing I can't play any high-quality games on 56k, but even worse when I can't solo some newbie mobs either and have to resort to other methods to play. City, State В"

"why cant valve be normal, and just give the public the game without an internet connection requirement?"

"As everyone agrees, Steam sucks. Look it up on google. City, State Lancaster, CA"

"Thanks to steam i cant even play HL2, or get updates for that matter, all the NPCs are froze in the game and theres no way to update because steam likes to "freeze" on verifying files.. that is if im even able to CONNECT! This is rediculous.. i guess ill "

"I fully agree. Steam is a total nightmare and should be abolished at all costs."

"I've given up City, State Laupahoehoe, HI"

"Steam is horrible. I have to wait 30 mins everytime I try to play half life 2. City, State Indianapolis, Indiana"

"Steam sucks hard! Offline playing req. Internet connection - man this sucks. No option to unregister nor reactivate a cd-key. Not possible to sell my games. Sucks."

"I wish the creators of steam were dead City, State Steam is terrible"

"I HATE STEAM IT CAUSES ERRORS"