Pirated CD's are a better option!. I hate steam!

I borrowed this original CD of Counter Strike which included these games - Half life, Condition Zero, and Counter Strike anthology. I was rather happy as I got hold of this CD which i had been desperately wanting for a long long time.

I inserted the first disk. The setup installed Steam, which took about 2 minutes. So far so good. Now it proceeded to installing the three games. Done in 5 minutes ( my insides were jumping to play the game). I tried running the game. It gave this error -

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load steam.dll

I called up my other friend and told him about the error. He simply laughed at me for borrowing the original CD rather than the pirated one. He said that his pirated CD never gave any such problem

Now steam being a rather big software should have checked that the CD doesn't have a file like steam.dll missing.

Well i googled for the file and downloaded it from dll-files.com

I got the DLL file. The game has started working. Well it says that it is updating steam.


Well the moral of the story is that PIRATED CD'S ARE A BETTER OPTION! Don't go for an original CD guys it is rather frustrating.

The second disadvantage is that the original CD game only works with an internet connection. If you do not have an INTERNET CONNECTION do not buy an original copy.