Not really. One crash a decade ago doesn't really amount to enough undesirability to avoid it forever.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but if it was within the last couple months, that'd likely be in response to the new privacy laws enacted by the EU in response to the whole Cambridge Analytica thing. Pretty much every account-based service has sent out a message like that to all of their users, since a major element of those new laws is a need to be more transparent about what's being shared in profiles and to offer users the opportunity to remove that information if they don't want it shared. It is in fact not suspicious at all.
Easy. When I first put the disc in and Steam started shitting all over the place I distinctly remember it saying it was searching my drive for installed software. That was the first red flag and I shoulda flipped the switch then and there. I'll bet they were trying to disable any virus scanners. I let it proceed though as this came before the events that led to its removal.
It wasn't a crash. More a series of increasing problems. From DL'ing for hours despite installing from disc, to blocking its use, to DL'ing an update that corrupted the game. The ammo counter was moved to the center of the screen and the backgrounds became multicolored.
I explained it in the previous reply. It was at least a year ago. They refused to fix the game or ship a clean version, but hey why not tamper with dormant accounts because Valve gives a big 'F you' to their customers.
Yeah that just sounds like you fucked the install up or your computer was shit. ---
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