Steam Community Launching This Month

I wonder if a real offline mode (one that doesn't require you to go online to activate) is one of the items on this "long list of items".

Anyhow, the Steam Review has a bit more info on that "Steam Community" thing.

http://steamreview.org/posts/communityscreensdate/

Hope they fix it needing to run as admin on Vista if you want any of the purchase or demo-download links to work. Everything else seems to work fine, except for that stuff. Something to do with the steam:// URL handler apparently.

Their support page recommends that you either run the program as admin or disable several security features of the OS (in a matter-of-fact way without mentioning any of the consequences) because they haven't updated their software for an OS that was released to the public 7 months ago and is installed on most new PCs. :(

I like Steam a lot more than I used to. It is really cool to be able to legally buy and download a game online. While I have given up hope of the user interface ever becoming a standard Win32 look & feel application, most of the other things that annoyed me about Steam in the past have been fixed over the years and it even now that offers a payment system (PayPal) that works in Europe without me having to send emails begging someone to take my money like I did before.

I just wish that Valve would be quicker at fixing things. With Steam becoming such a big thing, with so many games and publishers using it now, it surprises me that they don't devote more resources to it. I'd hope that it isn't still (assuming it started off as one) a spare-time project for the game developers and has its own small team looking after it.

Oh god, Gish is so hard to pass up on. It may just be a side scrolling platformer, but the fact that the character is a ball of tar makes it hard to pass up on. The physics of the character adds a lot of fun to the game.

I never thought I'd be rooting for Steam as a competitor for Live, but after how badly MS is rolling out the whole GFW platform, I am not unhappy to see this happening

Now if they'd work on download speeds next. A buddy of mine that lives just south of Seattle can't get more than 20k/sec from Steam.

competition is good, but ... well, i hope it works.