Steam and its Team Fortress 2

Two full days time for downloading only a 9.8 GB game with 1Mbps connection, which is indeed, the download did not take the full speed of the internet,  tried to play the game, the game worked, however, not able to play much, I HATE STEAM for the first time, the game is Team Fortress 2.

The problem is that I am not even able start a game immediately, after connecting to the server, when ever I try to play a game, initially the maps and other resources get downloaded, it takes a lot of time, even for downloading these small files it takes a lot of time, I played for somewhat 20 mins, lost complete interest.

The issues is that steam need to update its UI properly, not the graphics, but on how the game is being presented, the starting and the ending parts, like showing the status of downloads clearly, downloading regular multiplayer maps initially only, giving a offline installer so that download speed can be enhanced with the help of p2p clients etc.

My final verdict as on 28/6/2011 for the game is, the game is now free to play, however waiting for a month would reduce the load on the servers of steam and also we can get the offline content up and running, STEAM is sick.   But thanks for making the game free, although its age is above to end I suppose.