Yes, we all know that this is a game, and games are allowed to employ custom UIs, right? Wrong! Steam, for the most part, is usually running in the background (when you're not playing any game). Not everyone has the default blue Windows XP luna theme! If people are successfully filing complaints about the unusability of websites, then why is steam allowed to get away with non-standard UI controls? Some of their dialogue boxes are not even keyboard accessible. But with steam platform games, such as Counterstrike, you have no choice but to steam it up! The problems with Valve's silly application, SteamingPileOfShit Breaks all UI conventions At least with operating systems you have another choice such as Linux. So if it's so bug-ridden and breaks all convention, why do so many people use it? Because of Valve's iron-fisted monopoly! It's like how everybody hates Microsoft, but they still use it. Countless crashes, connection and 'authentication/ticket' issues, forced updates, etc all made it unusable at one stage or another. In its first incarnation, it made for one of the most horrid gaming experiences. If you have no internet connection, then you won't be able to connect to steam's auentication servers which means bad luck to you. Why is it called a subscription service? The answer is that you pay a once-off fee to steam/valve to maintain the game. Steam is a so-called 'platform' for subscribing to computer games.
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Steam Sucks - Bad software - STEAMing Pile of shit! - Counterstrike, Modern Warfare, Team Fortress 2, etc