My wish list is diablo 3 and Deus EX Human Revolution. other game will see on the review

Since the news about DotA 2 released, I gave DotA up and waiting for the new DotA2 to be released.
Hope that it will substitute the original version of this game. Lol~...
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Whether they can afford or not, you can't deny there's actually ah beng who can afford the game. Our time teenage, can we afford even the cheapest handphone? No. But nowadays kids 13 years old already holding an iphone. WTF

phone different. Most kids/teenager only know how to buy pirated dvd or copy from friends.

wonder if they got the news about Dota 2 ... they dont even know steam
but i think Dota 2 will spread easily la maybe will bring those rich ah beng to steam community too ...

Why do they need to know about Steam to know Dota 2? Don't you know the piraters runs games on Steam without Steam?

but for source games like TF2 and CS Source, somehow they are not popular among pirates, at least from what I can see in gayrena. But somehow like left 4 dead 2, every user will have trouble connecting when some patched, some dont and with constant update like tf2, i dont think it's easy for people to follow up.

You'd be surprised about how much efforts those piraters put to get these peoples up-to-date with whatever updates coming on to Steam. TF2 yes, not popular among them, but CS:S, there's large base of them playing online.

usually i just copy all the content in the \Steam\steamapps , whenever i want to install the game again , i just copied to the new folder and let steam verify the game cache

nvr try this kind of backup before , will try

Blacklight: Tango Down is 50% off, now going for USD7.49.

Price drops for certain games such as:
1. Mafia 2
2. Borderlands GOTY
3. Transformers
and etc.

I don't see this?

Steam Sales, Special and etc

If you want to restore backup fast, then just use the copy files method as using backup it'll take some times, but I like to keep my backup managed and streamlined, so I'll know which files are for which games.

If you use the backup function from Steam. When it installs each game it contacts steam to verify your copy/check updates and etc. So more often than not, it would hang if there are several large installs. If you want to backup a lot of games. Directly making another copy, then using a day to archive them using 7zip or Winrar should achieve the same resulting size.

i dont think diablo will come to steam ever...

have u see these games on steam?
WoW, W3, Diablo 2, SC2

And when you just copy and paste and let Steam verify/check updates and etc, won't it hang as it will be doing the same thing?

If you copy and paste, you have the choice of verifying each game one by one, if you install via a batch install file, you'll have to stare at the installation screen for a loooong while.

As advised by a member, it's not wise to make a single backup containing ALL games in it, which is a stupid thing to do in the first place. I always separate my backups.

ewww... i got region locked

it didnt have to be
do both backup

the whole steam folder and backup via steam
the restore took 1 blink only

it add registry to your PC as well