I need to vent!

[lancalot]

I'm one of those people who prefer to have objects physically in my hand, which is why I have avoided Steam in the past.
But last night one of my sons told me Fall of Cybertron and its expansion packs were on sale, so I weakened and joined Steam.
Purchasing was easy, then it said I had to download Steam. Fine, did that and a Steam shortcut appears on my desktop.
Double click.. "checking for available updates". After a while, "extracting package" and the window closes.
Hunky-dory, so I click on the shortcut again. And again, checking for updates.
Finished again, click again, checking and updating AGAIN!!!
And that's all it's been doing all night and morning!?!?!

Am I missing something or have I just lost my money?

I'm going to put this in the comuting/game console thread too. Any helpful advice would be welcome.

Sometime you have to authorize the program to write to the drive ,it usually because it on c drive ... do you have an antivirus on? try right clicking the icon and run as admin . Sometime they missing a small file that they don't d/l automatically and you can check that on their forums for the missing file.

But don't lose faith in steam...it a bitch to have to update all the time and in aus our internet slow but it the way game are heading , you think that was annoying...trying playing on a console that you have to update to play!! or have a dvd game disc but have to d/l 6GB to install the game!(looking at you starcraft2-heart of the swarm@!)

well i hope that help...check out their forum it pretty helpful and their response to email take around a day ...