Steam became leader of PC Gaming?

What if Steam became the leader of PC gaming? Steam would provide focus, encouragement of quality and reliability and would help curve rampant piracy to increase customer base. Instead of Games for Windows, it would be Games for Steam. People who get a PC game would be required to have a steam account to register their game on Steam's program?

Thats not to say that Steam should have a monopoly over the community and multiplayer. Xfire, Games for Windows Live and others who want to join in would still compete over a community to be able to use their services.

People who get a PC game would be required to have a steam account to register their game on Steam's program?Jd1680a

P.S Steam doesn't do nothing to piracy and we don't play our games on Steam (as OS) we play them Windows/MAC/Linux/etc, it's like saying Games for Xfire, besides Steam isn't that great of a name to use as a Logo.

Going thru Steam is nice but the only drawback i have with steam is that my games are locked to my account and so when i get tired of the game, i cannot resell it. Thats the biggest problem i see with steam. Thats also why i dont have many steam games, only ones i really really want to play all the time like TF2Tyson8earzz

This is my main problem too.

i still prefer buying games in boxes but steam is quite good, it does the updates for your games so you don't have to bother going to the web and update urself.

Plus your account has all the games you own so if you go somewhere else and use steam you can still play those games ( however you have to update them, heavily) but still a good thing.

I hope Steam leads PC gaming, i really do, compared to what these others idiots are doing to pc gaming ( EA, honourably mentioned )

[QUOTE="Tyson8earzz"]Going thru Steam is nice but the only drawback i have with steam is that my games are locked to my account and so when i get tired of the game, i cannot resell it. Thats the biggest problem i see with steam. Thats also why i dont have many steam games, only ones i really really want to play all the time like TF2TheFragcat

This is my main problem too.

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Isn't reselling your games another form of piracy? Yes it is.

[QUOTE="TheFragcat"]

[QUOTE="Tyson8earzz"]Going thru Steam is nice but the only drawback i have with steam is that my games are locked to my account and so when i get tired of the game, i cannot resell it. Thats the biggest problem i see with steam. Thats also why i dont have many steam games, only ones i really really want to play all the time like TF2pvtdonut54

This is my main problem too.

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Steam sucks ass i got banned for no obvious reason for cheating in CSS it stands on my VAC BAN but u know what they banned me from all the games then i bougth L4D and registered it to the same account since i already had alot in the friendlist once it was installed i got banned from a game a just installed Steam is a **** joke! i hate steam i wish osama bin ladens next target is steam HQ man i would laugh so hard if that happendCrazyFox_444

Isn't reselling your games another form of piracy? Yes it is.

regnumekal

Steam doesn't do nothing to piracy =DanielDust

I don't think Valve would have the time or resources to lead the PC gaming platform. But I think they'd be a better choice than Microsoft.

Isn't reselling your games another form of piracy? Yes it is.

regnumekal

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Steam doesn't do nothing to piracy =nutcrackr

I don't think Valve would have the time or resources to lead the PC gaming platform. But I think they'd be a better choice than Microsoft.

You cheated therefore VAC bans you, i'm pretty sure you're not banned from the game just all VAC servers, PunkBuster can do the same you know.markop2003

No PunkBuster doesn't do that, it only kicks you out of the server for a few minutes, you can get a global ban only if you have a pirated game and you try to play online.

Imo Valve is doing the right thing, but they are way too harsh, you don't need to ban all the games and ban in general on hundreds of servers just because you cheated, not that I have/had any problems, but they are really exaggerating, and it's not like those that want to cheat can't bypass the cheat detection system, IF they really want to cheat.

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"] ...overseer99

He wasn't saying that they don't get pirated or that they are harder to pirate and I agree with him, but that's in terms of sale and it's important just for the company, but in max 1 week (TF , L4D, Portal) those games will appear on torrents, it does prevent piracy at launch and a few days, but overall it isn't really doing much in the long run.

And people don't pirate Valve games just for offline play, they pirate the online games too, there are lots of cracked servers for TF 2 for example.