I've been living under Mark Zuckerberg for too long;
what's 'Steam'? And why would I want to install it?
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monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 22:27,
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Steam is an online game store
You download the games from teh interwebs and play dem! Steam's huge attraction is that it is account based so once you have bought a game it's yours for evah. If your machine dies, just redownload it. Never lose a CD again, say bye bye to hunting for CD keys on cases or losing them. It has a brilliant backup system if you want to try and avoid downloading more than once.
I buy from Steam pretty much exclusively now.
Games aren't cheaper, but Steam don't set the prices, publishers do.
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 23:39,
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The sales are fantastic too.
If I'm not desperate to play it (and I'm not with most games nowadays) I'll just wait for it to appear at a super low price in the Steam Store. Just picked up Metro 2033 for £3.50 last week. Fotally tanfastic.
There's always the concern that Steam turn evil and find reasons to ban everyone and take away your games...but I doubt that would happen, since it would hand all the power to EA's Origin service and Amazon.
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except for all of the Steam sales.
Gabe Newell is a huge advocate of lowering the price of games.
I used to pirate games almost exclusively. Now I buy almost exclusively because it's just so damned easy with Steam.
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Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 0:02,
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I suspected as such.
I'm going to sound like a chump now, but can I download a game and burn it for use on my 360?
Or is it PC only?
I'm old fashioned see, just paid £3 for Jet Set Radio from Amazon! Still playing my DC, Safe!
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monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 1:03,
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PC (Win/OSX).
But if you've got Jet Set Radio, you don't technically ever need to buy a game ever again.
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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 2:22,
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