snowkatt: a 10 gig patch is ridicilous regardless but its sega's fault in the first place
Fenixp: Hmmm...
I did have to stand back and think for a bit after reading the opening post as it was written in a very emotional manner, which is not exactly what I like to see in a post, however bad_fur_day1 does have a point. It's cool that most of the plannet has access to uncapped internet connection, but some people don't - and it would be really neat if those could disable product updates, or make Steam prompt them every time it wants to download a product update and allow user to choose when he wants to download updates. After all, Steam's offline mode is perfectly capable of updating a game even after months of being offline when you go online for the first time - so just treat the products that way, perhaps? Now I'm curious how's GOG going to handle this in Galaxy.
tinyE: I'm confused, is the download voluntary or not?
Fenixp: They never are. You can right-click a game on Steam and change automatic update settings, but you can never disable them completely.
Well then it is Steam's fault. It's not up to them what a developer throws at them because Steam doesn't make the damn things, but
IF they are jamming said updates down your throat then that's on them. When a patch shows up here, a little notification shows up, nothing more, and it's up to me if and when I choose to download it.
IF (and I'm taking your word on this my dear monocled Fenixp! :P) those options are taken out of my hands then that's BS from them.
Also on a side note, and I know NOTHING about downloading something from Steam, it behooves them to allow you to download a file of that size in pieces. When I download Jade Empire here (something I now regret :P) I was able to do it piecemeal without fear of losing data. If this is also what Steam does then I withdraw the objection.