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anyone know what will happen if it ever goes under? will we get game disks sent to us or do u think they;ll give us a limited amount of time to download or they'll just fold and we;ll be left empty?

I love Steam, when my computer got stolen along with all my games, Steam let me download it all again, no charge

Steam is just so great. I really got into purchasing and downloading last holiday season, and I love their huge catalog and weekly sales.

Though I really do wish they'd set up a more thorough security system with players' accounts. I think it should be like WoW, where it's linked to a credit card, home address, and person. That way if someone phishes or hacks your account and you can prove your identity, you get your games back.

Just one password doesn't seem quite enough to me.

To be safe, download them from the start if you have the space.

I think Steam is a great idea.

1) With packaging, distribution, and retail not necessary, it is a lot less expensive to produce games, which will result in lower prices for the customer.

2) Downloading it instantly is a lot easier than having to drive to the store or than having to wait for it to ship to your house.

3) Steam lets you re-download, if you lose your physical copy, as said above.

Good grief. I have forty seven games (including expansion packs) on Steam. Though half of those came from buying a bargain pack thing for twenty-five quid, that's still a silly number. Some of them I have physical copies of too. It's that damn discount promotion thing that comes up when you log in.

But yeah, download everything as soon as you can. Though I doubt Steam will be going broke any time soon.

Never heard of them until reading this thread. Upon looking into it, and seeing the system requirements, I can see it has nothing for me!

Agreed. When games are on sale for 5 bucks or less, there's so little to lose. That's the price of a rental for crying out loud.

I think to myself "one more day of spaghetti. Oh yeah."

If you can search the internet, you'd know the answer. This "possibility" has already been looked at so the customers won't be left with games that can not run...

My friend gets a lot of his games off of Steam. Me, I don't have a credit card, plus I prefer having a physical copy then relying solely on downloads.

Unfortunately it looks like online downloading of major PC games is quickly becoming the new industry standard. It's almost like when floppy disks were being phased out with CDs. I remember when most games came on floppy, that was when I was much younger, before the CD completely changed the industry. Now with the advent of high-speed internet and the possibility of being able to send and receive large amounts of data via networking, along with portable hard drives and memory sticks, it's quite possible even the CD will soon become a thing of the past.

I always liked this word because it looks like "squid".

It is nice to get a box to put on the shelf when you buy a game. I suppose that will make retail and retro a little bit more attractive.

Relying on downloads is far safer than a physical copy. A game can always be redownloaded, and every game on Steam can be redownloaded for free and as many times as you want. A physical copy, once it's scratched, broken, burned, anything, and it's over. You have to buy it again.

CD's are also already dying out. They died out with DVD's, which are dying out to blu-ray, which are going to die out to holograph discs (new discs capable of hundreds of gigs worth, still in development, fascinating designs though)

Steam is basically just awesome, in fact it's almost TOO awesome. It's deals are incredible and at the same time addictive. I've got over 60 games just on Steam alone. I don't even want to count my 360 and PS3 games and other non Steam games as well...

I don't have a credit card either, I pay using PayPal.

debit card?

That's actually what I use, it works just fine.

I still dont get how Paypal works. Is it like a bank account for internet purchases or something?