Comments on: Steam and Digital Distribution

By: Steam on Mac! | Tim Oliver

Steam on Mac! | Tim Oliver — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:35:08 +0000

[...] think it goes without saying that I really love Steam. I wrote a little piece a while back on the pros and cons of digital distribution in regards to Steam, and I’m still finding it cheaper, faster and easier than anything else. On that note, Valve [...]

By: -=TiM=-

-=TiM=- — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:32:51 +0000

Yessir! Take a look: http://steamcommunity.com/id/delta224/games

Then again, a few of those games (like 4 or 5) I already owned on disc beforehand.

By: redtechie

redtechie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:53:40 +0000

:O!!!!!!!!!!!! On Steam alone?!

Also loving this comment third party comment system!

By: -=TiM=-

-=TiM=- — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:44:44 +0000

ROFL! I have 222 games. How many do you have?

By: -=TiM=-

-=TiM=- — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:43:46 +0000

Ohh really? I hadn't heard that. Whew, that's awesome then! I'll update the entry to reflect that.

I have to admit, I think we're pretty lucky that a company like Valve is managing Steam. They could easily act like complete jerks about it, but they don't hehe. If they are a monopoly, then I probably don't mind getting ruled by them.

By: -=TiM=-

-=TiM=- — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Hahah and yeah! DISQUS is pretty neat isn’t it. :DUm, one thing I just noticed tho… we’re missing an edit button.

By: redtechie

redtechie — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:38:53 +0000

Haha! Damn dude you have tons of steam games! o_0

By: D4M14N

D4M14N — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:27:15 +0000

Steam has a emergency backout plan in place should something happen and they need to shutdown steam. Apparently it takes as little as a few hours to push out the changes needed to “unlock” every customers purchased game from the authentication back end, so if the service was to disappear you would still have your games. Gabe Newell even said in an interview recently they had tested this emergency system to make sure it all works as it should.