steam good or bad

Steam is great for lazy people like me, and to get games that are no longer on most shelves. I like it.

Aside from Steam randomly hogging your bloody CPU when it scans for games or is updating (or just loading for crying out loud), Steam is fine and works as advertized. Great little distribution program, and is basically slowly turning into the PC equivelant of Xbox Live!, but for free.

steam is it any good? i once heard from my friend that steam had more bugs than a beehive and a website which said steam sucked. what do you think? personally i think its great!the_ewanmeister

I think it sucks. Unfortunately I have to use it for a game I have (Red Orchestra).

i love steam !

if every game could be released on it i would be happy

Steam? Pain in the anus. I want to play Half Life!

Steam is good, it sucked when it just came out but I like it quite a bit. If you have quite a few games on it (I have DoW,TQ/IT,Gmod,TF2, painkiller (and basically every valve game but DoDS). It also has a very nice library for older games, like Deus Ex, Max Payne series, GTA series, VTMB, psychonauts, RTW and quite a few others. The library is rapidly expanding and you can buy a substantial amount of new games on it (CoD4, CoH, Medieval 2 TW, ETQW, bioshock, Sam and Max season 1) to name a few.

The 2 qualms I have with it personally is adding nonsteam games to steam doesn't work very well, and I really wish I could exchange games I have that are now on steam for the steam version simply because I find it WAY more convenient than trying to keep all the CDs and keys and worrying about what games need patches etc.

The only reason I would hate is if I only had 1 game that used it as by itself its a bit of a hassle. If 50% of your library is on steam though it works VERY well, especially when you reformat your comp.

yea by the way people if youre gonna put try it 4 yourself then i already had steam when i wrote this i jus wanna think wot u guys think.

It's funny to see to amount of praises here when you compare it with a few years ago and Valve was shutting down WON to replace it with Steam. People were pissed and came up with clever gif such as the guy getting buttraped by the steam logo.

Anyway, personally, I think its great and never had a problem with other than some messed up patches.

Using it for years, never had any ''real'' problems with it. Loving it.Kniterait

Exactly. Those having problems are probably running dial up or something. Never had any issues with steam whatsoever.

i have gone officially steam crazy i cant stop reccomending it to my friends and i love it to bits i hav downloaded pretty much every valve game (except for half life on ps2) and it is awsome anyone who dosent like it is a retard ( apart from the people who replied to my thread then ur kl) :)

p.s add me! i need a friend to play tf2, hl2 deathmatch, dod and cs source!!!!!

steam is it any good? i once heard from my friend that steam had more bugs than a beehive and a website which said steam sucked. what do you think? personally i think its great!the_ewanmeister

it depends, steam is good in some areas but NEVER EVER download games off it. filmography

You guys realize Mr. One Post Wonder bumped a 4 year old thread, right?

You guys realize Mr. One Post Wonder bumped a 4 year old thread, right?

-wildflower-

The Necromancers are out in full force lately. :/

Why not form your own opinion?

I have been usiging it about 6 years now and I have had no problems with it. Transferring games from one pc to another was a breeze. Steam is great overall (and the prices are really good when stuff is on sale!)