The Arrogance of Steam
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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pseudonym67 wrote:
I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
So I take it you were steamed?
modified on Monday, June 28, 2010 7:08 AM
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pseudonym67 wrote:
I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
So I take it you were steamed?
modified on Monday, June 28, 2010 7:08 AM
He boiled over...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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He boiled over...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
I never bothered with Steam. I thought it was all vapourware
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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He boiled over...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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I tried (not very hard) to install steam (on XP) and could not get it to work. It actually installed but would not run anything.
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He boiled over...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
Watt?
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I never bothered with Steam. I thought it was all vapourware
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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pseudonym67 wrote:
I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
So I take it you were steamed?
modified on Monday, June 28, 2010 7:08 AM
I little. But I do feel that if they turn it off they will have poached my money
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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This is why I don't use Steam. I prefer to own my games rather than rent them. Aside from you misidentification problem, if somebody is using Win 2K and the games they have on Steam work on it, why should Steam pull the rug out from under them? They did the same thing with Win 98.
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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what the hell is steam?
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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I just want to know why it's so damn slow.
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Whenever I run steam lately I get a message telling me that support for win 2k is ending and that steam will shortly stop working. Seeing as I am running steam on a vista computer I was a tad suprised. So I opened a tech thingy and asked them to stop doing it now as it was getting annoying. They wrote back informing me that my system was definetly win 2k and that steam would stop working. I informed them they were like completely and totally wrong as its a pure vista system shop bought with no duel booting or anything fancy, straight vanilla stuff. ( I bought a couple of cheap laptops cause I got fed up with messing about with all that stuff. Much nicer ) I also ran this which reports everything correctly. System.OperatingSystem osInfo =System.Environment.OSVersion; Console.WriteLine( osInfo.VersionString ); steam tech support asked for an msinfo to be run so I sent it them and got this. AVG 7.5, Norton/Symantec and Nod 32 software has been known to cause game crashes. AVG 7.5 must be fully removed from your system in order to prevent these crashes. Please follow the link below for further information: Title: Programs Which May Interfere with Steam Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb\_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 If you have any further questions, please let us know. The more observant among you will notice that not only does this fail completely to address the complaint about not identifying the system correctly, but seems to be living in some sort of alternate universe in which they think that steam which should be doing nothing that triggers antivirus programs is so important that I am going to remove my av just to run it. I'll let you imagine how polite my response was.
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