jobabob said:
NinjaGrinch you are the epitomy of ignorance. blah blah blah...
And so the ignorant one replies:
1. Steam is not required to play Half-Life or test maps.
2. Steam DOES resume downloads.
3. The Steam installer is only 590k.
4. Per 1, 2, and 3, the only reason I can see for not wanting to use Steam over 56k would be if you broke your orginal Half-Life CD AND you couldn't afford to replace it, AND did you not have the patience to wait for Steam to download and install the full game.
[anecdotal aside]
I have broadband now, but I started out with a 33.6kbps modem, which if I was lucky, connected at 22 or 23kbps, and if I was REALLY lucky, would stay connected for maybe 3, even 4 hours! But if you're a dedicated gamer, then like kol said, waiting hours (or days) for a patch to download is not even an issue. It's gotta be done. Today, with Xbox, PS2, and GameCube giving PC's a run for there money, I guess gamers are just a lot less patient than they used to be...
[/anecdotal aside]
P.S. It's epitom
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