Steam and people's opinions.

I agree with the comments above. I have used steam for 9 years now. Origin from EA although not as polished as steam is good too.

+1 on Steam This is what mine has gotten to over the years and not even all my games I own

Steam is great.

The only downside some may have is that once you buy a game, thats it. Its yours forever. No trade ins, exchanges etc.

However, they are often cheaper buying digital too.
And Steam has sales through the year, 2-3 major ones. Where everything is much cheaper. And the they always have something daily through the year.

I usually buy during the major sales. Buy a bunch of stuff and then play those until the next big sale. Unless something big comes out I really want.


I would highly recommend when building your new rig, you get at least a 1TB HD that you can dedicate to Steam only.
That would be in addition to the typical recommendation of SSD for OS/Apps and spinner for User DATA.

The reason is, after awhile Steam games really start eating up space. First big sale comes along, you'll see what I mean :)
Plus, its nice to have a HD for just Steam to live. Eventually you can do what I did and add a second smaller SSD for Steam as well, and move just the most played or high disk use games to it, leaving the majority on the spinner.

No you do not need to. I personally keep many installed (not all) that I will play.

One thing about Steam also.
When you buy a game and download it, you do a backup of the game and store it somewhere. You can set the size you want the back up to be. I/E fit aon a DVD or Dual layer DVD, or split it up into DVD /DL DVD sizes.
Then, burn it to disc.

You now have a physical copy of the game to store. I do this as well.

So thats another option if you want to do so. Just get some blank DVD, and DL DVDs for this purpose. Or BluRay if you want and set the size to 25 or 50GB.


Also, keep in mind that Steam MUST be online when you install a game. Either from a backup or DL from servers. Once that game is installed and launched 1 time ... you no longer need a internet connection.


This type of DRM I do not mind at all.

Andreas W said:

After seeing Solarstarshines post it reminded me of a possible con might depend on how you see it but because of the daily sales and the easy access you are most likely to stack up on a lot of games, my total game list shows 71, I hardly got all of them installed or play all of those. And today Rome - Total War gold edition is on sale for 1£, sometimes you just buy games because they are cheap and not because you might play them

I just got Call of Juarez Gunslinger for 14.99 I have the first call or Juarez too

Yea, Im guilty of that myself.
I have a few games that show less than a hour played. I picked them up during big sales for like $5 or less and just never really got around to playing them.

Mine shows 163 games ATM ... But I joined Steam in 2006 or 2007. Not a very long time, but long enough to build up a decent sized library.