Seriously, Steam is epic!

Not just is it an epic system for buying games and just a general good system with lots of good offers also. I just bought Serious Sam The First Encounter, Serious Sam The Second Encounter, Serious Sam The First Encounter HD & Serious Sam The Second Encounter HD all for only 3,99 euro. Time for a long night of gaming with my buddy ! ^^

mafiameower

United States61 Posts

November 26 2011 19:21 GMT

My friend gifted me the Serious Sam Series and we played quite a bit! Really fun :D

MisterD

Germany1338 Posts

November 26 2011 19:29 GMT

imho by far the best thing about steam is the updater that always keeps your games at the newest patch. i barely look for games anywhere else, just because i don't want to care about compatibility issues and bugs due to missing patches when steam can do it all for me.

also obviously digital distrubution > tons of litter from boxed copies and you can't even lose your cd. :D

mptj

United States485 Posts

November 26 2011 19:29 GMT

Seriously so grateful for Valve and Steam, the idea and service is great <3

Mothra

United States1448 Posts

November 26 2011 19:42 GMT

I like the convenience of steam too. Remember the huge uproar and shitstorm when it first came out?

BoilOlo

United States139 Posts

November 26 2011 19:43 GMT

i absolutely love Steam, i have almost 100 games on 2 accounts. when BF3 came out, i was upset that i couldn't have it on my Steam account and had to have it on Origin, basically a ripoff of Steam by EA.

i love the weekend and midweek madness sales, and dont forget Steam usually has their week-long sales event around Xmas time. you cant beat 50%-75% off major titles no matter where you shop.

as far as Valve, i am still upset with them (why no HL3?????????), but they are one of the better developers out there.

Sermokala

United States14048 Posts

November 26 2011 20:00 GMT

KOTOR for only $2.99 I had no choice but to buy it

forsooth

United States3648 Posts

November 26 2011 21:09 GMT

On November 27 2011 05:00 sermokala wrote:
KOTOR for only $2.99 I had no choice but to buy it

I'm disappointed KOTOR 2 isn't available.

OmniEulogy

Canada6593 Posts

November 26 2011 22:57 GMT

Agreed! Steam is amazing ^^ Enjoy the games

Josh-FiveO

Denmark174 Posts

November 27 2011 00:44 GMT

#10

Me and my Friend just played, 3 hours for first campaign. (we did it in 1 go :D) Now we are waiting for The second game to install ;P

deafhobbit

United States828 Posts

November 27 2011 02:50 GMT

#11

In all seriousness, steam is probably the biggest reason why PC gaming still exists. It's a robust enough DRM system that more and more developers are willing to trust it to keep their AAA products relatively secure, but it's also non intrusive and feature rich enough that most gamers have embraced it.

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

November 27 2011 02:53 GMT

#12

On November 27 2011 06:09 forsooth wrote:

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I'm disappointed KOTOR 2 isn't available.

This, what the hell? I want KOTOR 2.

Kerotan

England2109 Posts

November 27 2011 03:16 GMT

#13

Dammit steam for taking all my money.
I completed my Total War collection.

Athos

United States2484 Posts

November 27 2011 03:18 GMT

#14

On November 27 2011 05:00 sermokala wrote:
KOTOR for only $2.99 I had no choice but to buy it

I bought KOTOR two weeks ago for 10 dollars. It was so amazing I don't even care that I wasted 7 dollars

MrBitter

United States2940 Posts

November 27 2011 04:00 GMT

#15

Most annoying thing about iTunes:

Download song. Reformat hard drive a day later. Apples makes you buy the song again.

Best thing about Steam:

Download game. Move away from home, forgot about PC gaming for a while, remember how awesome Valve is seven years later, re-download Steam on a new computer, and still have access to all your old purchases.

Valve is a great company.

dizzee

Norway36 Posts

November 27 2011 05:16 GMT

#16

Don't like it, with the failure of Origin, it's creating a monopoly, and monopolies are never good.

One example of this is when they converted all dollar prices into euro prices. 50 dollars us? 50 Euros.

What did people do about it? Made a steam group :/

Euronyme

Sweden3804 Posts

December 11 2011 17:37 GMT

#17

The things I like the least about it is that dollar goes straight into euro, meaning that a game for 50 USD turns into 50 euro. At this moment 1 euro is 1,33 dollar so it's basically 1/3 more expensive to buy games in Europe.
If they actually bothered to exchange the dollar value into euro they'd actually be cheap, but right now there are way cheaper hard copies to buy in stores which is ridiculous as they have to pay for storage, shipping, rents in the city the actual dvd with package etc etc.
The only reason to buy things off steam is lazyness and the fact that the minimiprizes are still lower as you can't get a game with a DVD and the package for like 3 euro.