Update:

Impulse already released Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor. Speed it up Gabe.

PS

FUCK YOU. I can’t even imagine how long is Tales of Valor going to download.

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You’re probably bored with my whining today but I gotta say this.

Today Company of Hereos had an update from version 2.400 to 2.500 (2.501 if you have the latest add-on, Tales of Valor).

You can easily see that this patch is 1.38GB (source).

Now what’s that all about?

Well some of us (like 6 people) have been downloading this update over few hours now. We’ve downloaded over 1GB each and Steam still shows 37% completed (Steam was NOT restarted during this download).

Just see this:

Oh and do not even think of downloading Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts updates together – both games have the same files (they are not separate games) and downloading them both at once results in downloading the same thing two times in a row.

This fucking sucks.

It seems that if you bought F.E.A.R. 2 in retail today or few days earlier you can’t play it because Steam says it’s “Not available in your region.”. Of course that’s the problem for Europeans, the game was released in few stores around Europe earlier.

Seriously, that’s a major problem here.

(pics by danidomen)

Read more on Steam Forums: here and here

F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin Steam Forums: click

So right now it looks as if Valve is trying to close the one of the communication channels, which they just cannot control.

Currently the mailing list is accessible to everyone subscribed to it and sending a mail to one address easily starts any discussions about specific topic. Well, the fundamental rules of the mailing lists are: free speech and obedience of the netiquette. I don’t remember if there was any trolling or flaming on discussion lists – frankly speaking the people subscribed to the list represent higher intellectual level than most of the forum users. Not to mention that some people just don’t even know what the mailing list is, I guess that was just keeping specific users from getting into the mailing lists ;)

But as we’ve already seen on Steam forums, Valve is really eager to censor everything. We will see if people from mailing lists are going to be so active on the forums and see the responses of the forum trolls. I hope the new forum sections will not suffer from too zealous moderators.

Quote:

We will be shutting down the HLDS mailing lists on Friday, February 20th.

After February 20th, all server discussions should take place in one of the
forums listed below.

Windows server discussion should be conducted here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44 (Source)
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16 (Gldsrc)

Linux server discussion should be conducted here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45 (Source)
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19 (Gldsrc)

If you have not already done so, please register a forum
account<http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/register.php>
..

NOTE: The mailing list archives will still be available for viewing.

-Burton Johnsey
Valve Software

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And if you’re on their mailing list you can check it yourself.