So I bought a new game tonight for $20. It’s an RTS called Supreme Commander 2. Never heard of it before but I decided I’d give it a try just for the heck of it. I got home and found out that the game requires Steam to play it. Of course, I had already opened the DVD up by then so I was past the point of no return. I haven’t played a Steam game in forever. So I couldn’t remember my password and I tried to do the “forgot your password” system. Well they send you an email with a challenge response and also your secret question. So apparently I didn’t put the real answer to my secret question and I couldn’t figure out what I put. I tried over and over again, each time getting one of those stupid emails with the EXACT same challenge response. My inbox was literally full of them. I emailed support asking them to reset my account and, since its a Saturday night, I didn’t hear back from them. I didn’t figure I would. So I sat down to watch some football when I realized what password I had probably used. I go back to my computer and type it in and install the game. I’m anxious to play and I go to hit the play button and…. Steam tells me I have a 40 minute wait while it downloads updates!! It’s downloading at almost 2Mbit too. What the hell kind of BS is this? You buy a game, take it home and you can’t even play it for over an hour because Steam forces to you download updates that I really don’t care about. I would have been happy to just give the game a go in campaign mode and then update it later. But, I’m not even given the choice!
So why I hate Steam:
- I have to install their stupid software to play my games
- They create a list of every single piece of software I have installed. Can you say stalker?
- Copy protection only hurts the innocent! If I had pirated the game I’d be playing it right now, not waiting on Steam!
- Copy protection only hurts the innocent! If I had pirated the game I wouldn’t have spent an hour waiting to install it because I forgot my password.
- Oh yeah and I couldn’t even install the damn game without a steam account!
- They sent me about 15 copies of the exact same email. If you’re going to send me a stupid email every time I try to guess my password at least change the challenge / response every time!