[xtinct]

If someone uses Non Steam, Just ignore Him. There's no reason to hate anyone for that. I clearly support joaq....!
Alas! There's no one who knows before his birth that he's gonna born in a Country Full of Non Steam Servers. If it would have been possible I would have certainly tried out. Sigh!
Well, Not Everyone has same life. There are thousands of fnatic's roaming out there in the world but due to lack of help and support they never get pushed up.

I would suggest you to watch Slumdog Millionaire (I think mostly based on INDIA).
Luck is an Important Factor. Thereby you can understand the value of money that It cannot be made so easily just with hearbeat.

[[Black_Jack]]

Or, or, you can try to migrate to other country

[Mordekay]

That story about every rusian, eastern block country = non-steam is just bullshit.
I see day by day players on my server from those country. And a handfull teams especially from russia are steam-only. I see many of them when they apply for a team at steambans.
The only real story behind it is that they are afraid of empty servers because many players don't want to pay for the game. On the other hand they have to deal with cheaters on their servers (that's why you see many request for plugins that show IP or are able to ban IP-ranges to get rid of them).
Trashing or trolling threads about non-steam requests is a problem because often they are in a plugin thread, but i see no reason why you should not be allowed to delete them completely. Every board owner can decide what rules are taken on his board, as long as they do not work against moral or law every user has to agree to them. If he does not, well, you know what can happen then.

[xtinct]

Originally Posted by [Black_Jack] Or, or, you can try to migrate to other country

Nice Idea..Please Arrange for me!

[joropito]

Originally Posted by Styles Any kid can make $10.00 in a heart beat.

In Cuba, the average monthly income it's less than USD50... Ok, they don't have high speed Internet but it's an example.

Originally Posted by BAILOPAN I think part of the problem is that in some countries there are _only_ non-steam servers. Even if you want to buy or have bought the game. You have to cater to your market.

But currently there's a way to host double protocol server so the way is to have steam and play only steam & double protocol servers leaving p47 servers out of players so they will be forced to migrate to steam or double protocol.
It's just a social issue. People don't wan't to change how the things work.

Originally Posted by joaquimandrade They are free to do whatever they want. Just chill out and understand that not just because they use non steam they are bad persons.

Totally agree.

[ServO]

Originally Posted by SpILL 1 USD = 500 Indean Rupees?

Indean? or do you mean Indian.

1 UDS = 7-8 Norwegian Krone = 60 Indian Rupees. Do the rest

[lucas_7_94]

in Argentina, the majority of users use No-steam , and the gameservers running protocol 47 or 48 with doble protocol.


btw , the people uses a ilegal games downloaded from rapidshare.

[SpILL]

Originally Posted by ServO Indean? or do you mean Indian. 1 UDS = 7-8 Norwegian Krone = 60 Indian Rupees. Do the rest

Yeah sorry, correction, "INDIAN".

[fezh]

Another Non-Steam thread! Do you enjoy reading bullshit like this every day?

[Seta00]

Originally Posted by Owyn it's a shame to buy things you can download

Exactly. Buying a game you can easily/freely download doesn't make any sense for many people.

A few months earlier, I've decided to buy CS in Steam, and a friend advised me to buy CS Complete, so I could play with him (He's a CSS player). Wasn't by his advise, I'd regret to buy the game, since the non-Steam/Steam server amount ratio is about 50:1 here in my country. Besides all that, I've realized how fun is it to play on Steam, since meeting people on non-Steam is just a consequence of being playing the game; on Steam it's exactly the inverse, you meet people to play with.

Originally Posted by Owyn just like to be a pedophile

That's too much