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ORIGINAL: MajFrankBurns

No Yogi as steam haters don't have to post to puff themselves or their agenda up.

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My, uh, "adventure" with Steam begun last week, when I bought ETW at a store, and so far it didn't try to redownload the game. Though with my internet connection, it would take two weeks, so I guess I'll just default to offline just to be safe.

It was an annoying piece of crap from the start: the night I bought the game I had two hours of free time, so I decided to check it out, but nooo...it had to get all the updates nownownow and wouldn't let me play it at all. A day afterwards, my wife wanted to understand what's going on during the game, so I decided to switch the language to Polish. Did it ask me to confirm, warning that 2 gigs of patches would need to be redownloaded?

**** no. No game for you, ****face! Come back tomorrow!

For god's sake, I don't have unlimited time for Steam to waste whenever it feels like it.

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Some steam games have to be redownloaded completely everytime time a patch comes out. I know Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is that way for certain. It has something to do with the way patching works through steam, supposedly any edited files have to be redownloaded, and how a particular game handles patches. For example, apparently one of the patches for retail CoH:ToV was only 26 Mb, but because how the game is designed enought files end up getting changed that you have to redownload the entire 8 GB or so.

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quote:My, uh, "adventure" with Steam begun last week, when I bought ETW at a store, and so far it didn't try to redownload the game. Though with my internet connection, it would take two weeks, so I guess I'll just default to offline just to be safe. It was an annoying piece of crap from the start: the night I bought the game I had two hours of free time, so I decided to check it out, but nooo...it had to get all the updates nownownow and wouldn't let me play it at all. A day afterwards, my wife wanted to understand what's going on during the game, so I decided to switch the language to Polish. Did it ask me to confirm, warning that 2 gigs of patches would need to be redownloaded? **** no. No game for you, ****face! Come back tomorrow! For god's sake, I don't have unlimited time for Steam to waste whenever it feels like it.

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ORIGINAL: RyanCrierie

Polish friend of mine on another forum said it best:

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My, uh, "adventure" with Steam begun last week, when I bought ETW at a store, and so far it didn't try to redownload the game. Though with my internet connection, it would take two weeks, so I guess I'll just default to offline just to be safe.

It was an annoying piece of crap from the start: the night I bought the game I had two hours of free time, so I decided to check it out, but nooo...it had to get all the updates nownownow and wouldn't let me play it at all. A day afterwards, my wife wanted to understand what's going on during the game, so I decided to switch the language to Polish. Did it ask me to confirm, warning that 2 gigs of patches would need to be redownloaded?

**** no. No game for you, ****face! Come back tomorrow!

For god's sake, I don't have unlimited time for Steam to waste whenever it feels like it.

Someone else:

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Some steam games have to be redownloaded completely everytime time a patch comes out. I know Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is that way for certain. It has something to do with the way patching works through steam, supposedly any edited files have to be redownloaded, and how a particular game handles patches. For example, apparently one of the patches for retail CoH:ToV was only 26 Mb, but because how the game is designed enought files end up getting changed that you have to redownload the entire 8 GB or so.