06-22-2014, 11:58 PM
This is the Steam thread! Discussion of daily deals, sales, account sharing, etc goes in here.
What is a Steam?
If you've been living under a rock for the last 10 years and don't know, Steam is a digital distribution service created by Valve [makers of Half-Life/Portal/Team Fortress/Left 4 Dead/etc] that specializes in PC games. You buy a game once and can then play that game on any computer that account is logged in on.
It supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (OS X and Linux currently have much smaller game libraries than Windows though support is growing!) as well as Valve's own Steam OS which is essentially just a Ubuntu fork.
Why is it so popular?
Steam is known for its deep discounts and crazy sales (the biggest and most popular ones being the Summer Sale and Winter Sale) that result in most of its game catalog being incredibly cheap. You can frequently buy games for $5-$10 or so that would normally cost around $30-$50, for example. These sales result in people buying a crazy amount of games because they're so inexpensive.
Because of this, it's completely normal to see people who own hundreds of games yet have enormous backlogs of games that they've never played because the sales were too good. (As of the writing of this post, I own 662 games on Steam but have never played 602 of them, ahahaha)
In short, Steam offers a really good value for the money and just happens to be the most convenient DD service for games.
Where do I get it?
http://store.steampowered.com/
Click the green Install Steam button at the top right of the page and go from there. You'll need to make an account, of course.
How do I see how much time I've been wasting on games?
http://www.gamalyzer.com/
Enter your profile info in the search box and it'll spit out a readout of your playtime divided between games, etc.
There used to be a tracker of how much money you've spent on Steam as well but it got too much use and shut down.
Who else has Steam here?
Eno - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197965592273
Omnikariz - http://steamcommunity.com/id/Omnikariz/
Psychospacecow - http://steamcommunity.com/id/psychospacecow
Puggsoy - http://steamcommunity.com/id/puggsoy/
ShadeDBZ - http://steamcommunity.com/id/ShadeDBZ/
There is also an official tVGR group which can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tvgr
What is a Steam?
If you've been living under a rock for the last 10 years and don't know, Steam is a digital distribution service created by Valve [makers of Half-Life/Portal/Team Fortress/Left 4 Dead/etc] that specializes in PC games. You buy a game once and can then play that game on any computer that account is logged in on.
It supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (OS X and Linux currently have much smaller game libraries than Windows though support is growing!) as well as Valve's own Steam OS which is essentially just a Ubuntu fork.
Why is it so popular?
Steam is known for its deep discounts and crazy sales (the biggest and most popular ones being the Summer Sale and Winter Sale) that result in most of its game catalog being incredibly cheap. You can frequently buy games for $5-$10 or so that would normally cost around $30-$50, for example. These sales result in people buying a crazy amount of games because they're so inexpensive.
Because of this, it's completely normal to see people who own hundreds of games yet have enormous backlogs of games that they've never played because the sales were too good. (As of the writing of this post, I own 662 games on Steam but have never played 602 of them, ahahaha)
In short, Steam offers a really good value for the money and just happens to be the most convenient DD service for games.
Where do I get it?
http://store.steampowered.com/
Click the green Install Steam button at the top right of the page and go from there. You'll need to make an account, of course.
How do I see how much time I've been wasting on games?
http://www.gamalyzer.com/
Enter your profile info in the search box and it'll spit out a readout of your playtime divided between games, etc.
There used to be a tracker of how much money you've spent on Steam as well but it got too much use and shut down.
Who else has Steam here?
Eno - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197965592273
Omnikariz - http://steamcommunity.com/id/Omnikariz/
Psychospacecow - http://steamcommunity.com/id/psychospacecow
Puggsoy - http://steamcommunity.com/id/puggsoy/
ShadeDBZ - http://steamcommunity.com/id/ShadeDBZ/
There is also an official tVGR group which can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tvgr
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