pxc said:I haven't bashed Valve for anything more than the original point in this thread: dropping the already working mixed mode DX9 path.
Then perhaps the title of your thread should reflect this instead of "Valve Sucks." What would happen if I went to a console-related forum and posted a thread intitled "NINTENDO SUCKS!" just because a certain game won't run in progressive scan mode on my 3 year old TV? Yea, I'd have to equip my "flameproof vest +3" to not get burned.
pxc said:But back to the point... Steam is unreliable. 4 times in the last week there were outages lasting longer than several minutes.
Stay far FAR away from World of Warcraft or any MMORPG if you can't stand outages that last a few minutes. Considering what they are doing with Steam, outages are to be expected. I'm sure they've got Terabytes worth of data being streamed through their servers on a weekly basis. Just be lucky that they can recover from a crash in a few minutes instead of having the entire system be down for days while they troubleshoot.