Quote Originally Posted by Aardpsymon
the concept of STEAM is an interesting one. It does a reasonable job of discouraging cheaters since getting caught can mean that you are banned from ALL the games you have bought. But as st1mpy has found out, a false positive can be a bitch.

What I like is that I never have to hunt for a disc. Just play, or wait for download and play. No messing with patches.

As for the risk from steam being hacked, my understanding was that the only serious information that was stolen related only to cyber cafes and wasn't necessarily going to harm the customer at all.

i sent them an email .. all i got back is that account is under investigation and that they will get back to me ... which i might go an buy new copy of hl2 and relax with it ...