Recent content by Chalks

Yep, that says it all really.

Tell me, if you think they're going to break their legal obligation to keep your details confidential anyway, what is the point of an "opt out" for it? Nothing. What is the point of this thread? Nothing. Just yet more evrett making claims that everyone involved is wanting to sell details...

So back up your games in case of a games industry apocalypse? There's a whole backup system for making copies of your steam games in the client. I'm not sure what you want me to say, there are a whole bunch of different options available to you if something that's really unlikely happens...

Obtaining a copy of a game that you have a legitimate license to use is not piracy. You would also only have to resort to this if 2k completely abandoned the game and refused to provide an alternative download location. So yes, if an extremely successful company went bust and you'd...

Looking both ways doesn't remove the possibility of getting hit by a car. Your logic states that any possibility, no matter how tiny, should be seen as a major problem. Why so inconsistent? Oh, and I'm here attempting to get people to shut up with their hysterical and disproportional whinging...

No, that's not what it says, it says "playing the game". You can't just change the words of the quote then say "see, now it's wrong!".

I would have thought that anyone with intelligence would understand the difference between a catch all disclaimer and disaster recovery plan.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4113-YUDH-6401

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28content_delivery%29#System_failure

Anything is possible. You're more likely to get hit by a car tomorrow. Let me know what you're going to do about that before you let us know what you're going to do to avoid the significantly less likely collapse of steam. Tell me, do you always plan for every single possible eventuality...

Playing a game on steam. Not browsing websites. Steam does not conflict with AV software I've used. I am not aware of any conflicts. I doubt you have experienced any either. Is it fun trawling the internet for every single gripe any member of humanity has ever thought up against the...

As far as I am aware the way steam game installation from disks works is, you install the game then steam goes online to "unlock" the game. What you'll do is install the game, and it'll say "unable to unlock due to not finding the steam servers :(". Then you'll go to *whatever website*...

The obvious assumption here is that the only thing you are doing is running Steam. They didn't mean to turn off your virus scanner while playing steam and simultaneously surfing porn on an unpatched version of IE6. They are saying that malicious code cannot be transmitted to your system via...

In online mode, steam already gets sent information about your initiation and closing of games for validation purposes, as well as for the community features. It's not a question of whether or not you should give this information to steam, that is part of it's functionality. Whether or not...

Yep, exactly. Obviously not letting the client connect to the net will bypass their ability to gather usage statistics, but as others have said, why you would care is anyone's guess.