Gonna talk about something that I love. Steam. *insert romance song here*
Just kidding. But seriously. Steam is awesome! It has most of the games out there!
That's it. What do you love about Steam?
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I like steam as well. I have just started using it a few months ago. It has pretty good deals on some games. I really like all the specials they run. Makes getting a game you want a lot sweeter when you save money.
I like the way it downloads games too. Utilizing files it already has from other games. I think that's how it does it anyways, I know half the time I download 2gb out of 4gb in two seconds. My connection isn't that fast.
I usually love steam. Except when the don't give me my Borderlands DLC when I buy GOTY edition.
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Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has one and some stink, now if someone says your armpits stink it isn't very polite to go rubbing it in their face, it isn't going to make them say yours doesn't stink it'll just make them dislike you and your armpit even more. Remember keep your armpits and opinions respectful.
Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has one and some stink, now if someone says your armpits stink it isn't very polite to go rubbing it in their face, it isn't going to make them say yours doesn't stink it'll just make them dislike you and your armpit even more. Remember keep your armpits and opinions respectful.
Right Click the game >> Properties >> DLC (Unless you've already tried that)
Anyways, as for what I like about Steam: I like it's sales. I also hate the sales. They makes the games so cheap that I pretty much have to buy them. Because of this I have accumulated around 80 games in the past year-or-so.
I love Steam for its ease of use. When you compare Origin to Steam, you can see how easy and simple it is. That is why I never deal with Origin. Ever. Steam also holds sales all of the time, which is very nice, considering that I am broke.
I used Steam for HL2 back in 2004, and then didn't use it again until just a few years ago (for Fallout 3 activation, I think). A site-wide summer camp sale (or something) sucked me in to a point where I actually started buying through the service. I'm not ecstatic about everything it does--janky offline mode, having a large program running in the background when I'm trying to maximize performance--but compared to Origin, Steam is a very gentle lover.
2004 was so long ago that I completely forgot about Steam and lost access to my original account--which theoretically means I can't legitimately run my copy of HL2 anymore.
Aside from that, Steam has probably helped facilitate the growth of DLC for PC, and since DLC is often a craptastic cash-grab, that's a negative for me even if I can't blame Valve for the greedy hijinks of other publishers.
I go view DLC and it says I do not own any for the game...
I remember buying GOTY because I brought it for $7.50 on sale for both me and my boyfriend.
If they come back and say I have to buy the DLC again, I am going to be peeved, all the DLC costs more than the actual game itself. Buying the GOTY edition is the same price as the plain one.
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Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has one and some stink, now if someone says your armpits stink it isn't very polite to go rubbing it in their face, it isn't going to make them say yours doesn't stink it'll just make them dislike you and your armpit even more. Remember keep your armpits and opinions respectful.
On topic, Steam is indeed very great. I don't really feel a lot of performance issues of this 'large program running in the background', although that's probably just my computer.
IIRC, Steam used to use about as much memory as the average browser. I don't know about you, but I generally close unneeded programs if I'm planning to run a game that demands a lot of system resources. It's down considerably from what it once was, but it's still occasionally prone to memory leaks. Granted, my machine is almost four years old at this point.
Yeah, steam is a very nice program, I just wish I had a way to buy games off of it other than asking people if I can use their debit card and pay them the money back :/.
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I love steam, i have drmccoy as my user.
I own a few games on Steam:
Portal 1 and 2
Killing Floor
DC Universe
Star Trek Online
Borderlands
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Beat Hazard
(a few i don't remember off the top of my head)
Just kidding. But seriously. Steam is awesome! It has most of the games out there!
That's it. What do you love about Steam?
I like the way it downloads games too. Utilizing files it already has from other games. I think that's how it does it anyways, I know half the time I download 2gb out of 4gb in two seconds. My connection isn't that fast.
You have to enter a code to get the dlc :/.
I know that... they never gave me the code.
Right Click the game >> Properties >> DLC
(Unless you've already tried that)
Anyways, as for what I like about Steam: I like it's sales. I also hate the sales. They makes the games so cheap that I pretty much have to buy them. Because of this I have accumulated around 80 games in the past year-or-so.
2004 was so long ago that I completely forgot about Steam and lost access to my original account--which theoretically means I can't legitimately run my copy of HL2 anymore.
Aside from that, Steam has probably helped facilitate the growth of DLC for PC, and since DLC is often a craptastic cash-grab, that's a negative for me even if I can't blame Valve for the greedy hijinks of other publishers.
I remember buying GOTY because I brought it for $7.50 on sale for both me and my boyfriend.
If they come back and say I have to buy the DLC again, I am going to be peeved, all the DLC costs more than the actual game itself. Buying the GOTY edition is the same price as the plain one.
IIRC, Steam used to use about as much memory as the average browser. I don't know about you, but I generally close unneeded programs if I'm planning to run a game that demands a lot of system resources. It's down considerably from what it once was, but it's still occasionally prone to memory leaks. Granted, my machine is almost four years old at this point.
Hmm, well the nearest Gamestop is about an hours drive from here, but next time I'm out that way I'll stop in and see if they have any Steam cards.
Thanks for reminding me about those :P.
I own a few games on Steam:
Portal 1 and 2
Killing Floor
DC Universe
Star Trek Online
Borderlands
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Beat Hazard
(a few i don't remember off the top of my head)