30 million Steam-ed

Not surprising. You give your customers quality service, and they will reward you in return,

Love Steam, the best online store in the world. Valve, i wish you luck.

Steam has great service and great prices. Just got Left for Dead 2 for 4.99!!! :-)

Dynamo11 Posted Oct 21, 2010 8:49 pm ET Valve really hit the nail on the head with Steam. Now they just need to release Half Life 3 -------------- I think you meant Half-Life 2 Episode 3

That's great.

good, good.

In the last year or so, I've been getting games from Steam more and more, there's times where they will have unbelievable deals on all sorts of games, ones that you can't pass up, like GTAIV for 5 dollars, for example.It's convenient, it's non-intrusive software, and since I have a very fast connection, it doesn't even take me very long to download a game at all.Now it even has achievements, for new games and older games like CS Source.It's a fantastic service, and the only one to truly do digital distribution right, as far as I've seen.

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@moe3000 Yeah maybe; but the Wii is in truth a console aimed at families and younger audiences. Not to say it doesn't have it's fair share of M-rated titles and older audiences, but in comparison to the PS3 or 360 - it's not a very serious or mature console; something that Valve stay away from. The only Valve game I can see on the Wii is Portal...and maybe TF2 with some major changes.

@sirMordredX well gabe never thought much about ps3 look at what happen`d there he changed his mind didn`t he,( i have completed HL2 on pc many time`s it`s a super adventure) never under estimate the power of sagestion

Gents and Ladies, I present to you the savior of PC gaming. @moe3000 Lolz, very funny...wait - you're serious? Gabe would have a seizure if you made that comment his ringtone.

Valve Rules :)

lets talk about the Wii valve, come on release something for the wii valve

Now let's hope the profits are going toward Half-Life 3.

Valve really hit the nail on the head with Steam. Now they just need to release Half Life 3 >:|

More than 100% increase in profits every year for 6 years... win. I haven't heard of any other company doing that and not doing illegal things.

i didn't like and understand steam before but really after they revamped it browser i already bought a couple of games via sales and promotions etc. Great!

I used to not get Steam. But after seeing all the deals and sales and promos... ok I like it now. Biggest gripe though is having to download some 10 gig game on my crappy internet speed. Took me a week and a half to get some Left for Dead 2 package.

@KotickIsGenius the real problem is GFWL not steam kiddo

@CamRaiD why are you saying this? I for one bought the elder scroll IV: oblivion on steam (online). Or were you doing a joke about buying a scroll online when it is well know that it is a piece of paper?

Steam is one of the BEST thing ever happen in PC history and its WORLDWIDE!! I really hope in the future, many developers will use Steamworks, STEAMCLOUD = MIRACLE!!! and yes... Steam is one of the BEST thing ever happen in MY LIFE TOO!!

thats crazy.. thats about the entire population of Canada. And about a 10th roughly of the population of the United States.

@guitarist1980 Yes, like I said not everyone may agree with what they have been working on because they feel they should have been working on other things such as Half Life 3. Yet nobody would really call Left 4 Dead 2 or Alien Swarm wastes of time or failures because they are still great games and L4D2 being one of my favorites. Its funny how people give Valve crap for making Left 4 Dead 2 saying that only a year after the previous one they make another and its just a big DLC. But nobody complains about Assassin's Creed Brotherhood or all the sports games that release every single year with less new content than L4D2 added. Other companies do it, but gamers just have higher expectations for Valve since they haven't released a bad game yet.

@Toysoldier34 I dont know I wish they just stuck with left 4 dead 1 instead of making another 1 with melee weapons.

I love Steam. If I had been switched at birth and raised by Valve... Statistically speaking I would be a better person. Since Valve has never gone wrong before. I understand some may say maybe not right with the delays to Half Life 3, but you surely can't say they have done wrong.

I remember downloading Steam the day it came out in 2004 (2003?) on slow DSL, over a fileplanet download that took me 8 hours waiting in que for. It was incredibly basic back then, I remember the initial hate for it pretty well (there's a gif out there of a guy bent over getting reamed in the butt by the steam logo), but all that is past; it's a great platform, and maybe, just maybe, it's been keeping the PC market alive and challenging consoles as it should.

Let me say one thing. I never trust a man who says Kotick is a genius.

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Steam is the best :D

Imagine buying "The Elderscrolls V" digitally..... disgusting :p

@KotickIsGenius You do release that logging on to steam is really no different than logging into psn or xbl. Plus the time it takes to put a cd in your pc, click on the icon, and click play really isn't any longer than logging into steam and clicking play game.

I love Steam... more power to Valve and Steam...

steam name is almost as bad as wii name

I use Steam mostly because it throws out deals on games left and right. It's become my digital bargain discount bin.

I personally prefer Direct 2 Drive, and find that Gamersgate is often a better source of obscure Eastern Europe games (Starwolves, Hard truck Apoc ect). Steam is still good, and far better than what they were when they began. Remember when you had to be online to play? Whew, talk about the dark ages.

i clicked on this article hoping to see new half life 2 info but oh well, congrats valve, just release the next damn half life already ..........

I buy quite a bit on steam but rarily play any of it :?

Oblivion plus all dlc for £20. The only time I've ever not bought a PC game from Steam was Fallout 3 GOTY (all dlc). £12 on Amazon, now that's the best deal ever.

It's great when it works but they need to take some of that money and put it back into the software. Many people have problems with the service and software.

@laplace985 Well said bro !

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Honestly I hated steam when it first came out; I have since changed my opinion. Steam is the reason pc gaming will never die. Everyone who thinks pc gaming will die; obviously never played games on the pc.

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I second OreintExpressMB. KotickIsGenius, your post was not funny, witty, or poignant. It's a waste of everyone's time.

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@rangeraa At least Activision doesn't force me to install and then log into a program every time I want to play one of there games... @toddx77 Shhh, you'll blow my cover, kidding aside I'm not trolling..I did get a laugh out of your post though. Well since my last post got deleted, I'll rewrite it and clean it up a little for the kiddies. Jiminy crickets, what in tarnation are you people thinking...gosh darn it, my fingers hurt from clicking on the thumbs down on all your posts. Steam is the worst thing that ever happened to PC gaming, with there really really mean DRM...Steam is nothing but a bunch of bunk, those rascals will never get a dime from me. I'm thinking most of you writing are Steam employee's trying to keep your jobs...LOL. I'm not condoning piracy, but thank goodness there are swell people out there that know how to circumvent Steam, so that I can choose to not install it.

Woot, congratulations steam. Thanks for keeping up with all the great success you guys done for PC gaming. I'm proud to be a steam member since 2003 here.

Steam is the best thing to ever happen to PC gaming.

I've been on steam since it's creation

Valve deserves this increase. Their dlc is usually free of charge... For valve created games anyway. Which is soooo much better than paying x amount on the systems. But the downside for me is that I would personally prefer controllers over keyboard. Unless I'm playing an rts