What have you supported Steam with?

For Steam I have bought...

Not really on Steam but..

Half Life 1
Counter Strike (Yes, when people could download it, I went and bought it )

Now for my steam games:
HL2 GOTY
HL2 Episode 1
Sin Episodes Emergence

 

Just HL2, I don't like the idea of just paying for the download, I want the box too.

 

I like Steam and play HL2, all and Sin for now. If you trade, collect or other, Steam is not for you.

It's nice to stay updated, no **** copy disk in drive, and you do not have to be online to play single player. You can back up your games and move to different computer or re-download if ya want. Lose your house and computer to a hurricane..not a problem..as long as Steam is alive.

Not perfect but works for me.

 

I've used Steam for over 2 years. Got the ATI HL2 voucher with HL2 (duh), CS:S and Valve`s back catalogue (CS 1.6, HL1 etc.), which equaled to the Bronze pack and later upgraded to Silver Pack, which basically got me Day of Defeat Source for $10.

 

I prefer to buy the games in their retail form - prefer to have both boxes and hard media

But all I have is Day of Defeat Source.

 

I refuse to use Steam. I refuse to allow them that much control over my machine.

 

i like steam, i bought cs:s/dod:s in a pack as one at the store though, i bought cs:cz/1.6 together as one from steam

 

Steam isn't so bad, I've never had any problems and it certainly beats ****ty securom and starforce, both of which severely **** with your PC and often affect other games...

 

Yep, starforce...that really gets me steamed.(sorry)

No disk with anything starforce will get near my house.

 

Steam requires that you have something akin to PunkBuster, which basically has carte blanche to inspect EVERY process on your computer.

Not to mention you have to trust that Valve will be around for as long as you want to play the game, and you don't mind renting it from them, and that they'll be forthcoming enough to disable the authentication before killing it on their servers. And hopefully you get online during that window when they're disabling authentications but before they stop it completely.

More criticisms here

 

Steam requires that you have something akin to PunkBuster, which basically has carte blanche to inspect EVERY process on your computer.

I get a pop up to allow game and hardware info be released. My choice, I also use a firewall to see what wants out. Since this is used for game improvement, across the board, why not?

When’s the last time you let Uncle Bill update windows?

There are a lot of people who are watching steam's moves. If anything "root kit" or other truly harmful tricks come about, steam will get hammered. Lot’s of hungry lawyers out there.

 

ummmm...we're not looking for hax or anything buddy, so stfu and get out! and besides, who would cheat on a video game??? i know there are ppl out there that do who probably have no life. so lame

 

Forget Half-Life, Darwinia is the real reason to get Steam! (Though I did just buy Episode 1, which was quite good.)

 

mmm i originally had HL1 on my pentium 166mhz when the game came out....man those were the days lol. Yeah the good old CS, ahhh then i bought Blueshift.

Steam though, i bought the Silver Package when they were still available so that was,
HL2
CSS
DoDs

i guess wanted to buy episode one...just in a way id prefer to buy all the episodes in one package if they ever do...ill be waiting a while though i think

 

what control do they have?

but i have cs css dod dods hl2 hl2dm and hlsource (bought at store but played on steam)

 

no it only checks files when you start it up or run a game to check .dll's and .exe's to make sure that you didnt inject any hacks for your game