Half Life 2 Aftermath

[Wizard]

Sounds like you're judging it based on the beta.  I started using it near the end of the beta and it's never been anywhere near that bad for me.  HL1, CS1 and DoD worked without any problems, offline and on.  HL2 authed in seconds for me just a few days after launch.  Granted, not being able to auth it on launch day would have been an issue, but I consider it a growing pain.  No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater, as it were.

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I was in beta since the beginning and up until last December I stopped using steam. I summed up the first 15 months of steam after beta.

[Gryph]

No one I know has experienced such problems. And I've been using Steam since it's inception. I hated it too because it sucked back then but it's a lot improved now.

 

And I authed HL2 right when it was available and it took about 10 minutes. I was lucky enough to be awake for it.