SEV on Steam?

[Combat Wombat]

Imperator Fyron said:
None of the people I know that play HL are very satisfied with Steam. This is of course a small number of people, so take it as you may. I personally am not very keen on the idea of purely downloaded software purchases, especially not ones using vile DRM schemes. Too much of a hassle for when you need to reinstall Windows periodically.

Now theres no reason to lie to advance your point Fyron. I love steam and there is nothing vile about steam by any stretch of the imagination. It also has a very well designed server browser that is common to all of the games on it. It allows developers to patch games whenever its needed without users having to worry about checking sites constantly. It allows developers a solid way to protect their products and in no way have I found it invasive. No personal information is needed to make a steam account, they are not tracking me and watching everything I do. Steam games can still be purchased from the store so you don't need to give them personal information unless you really really want to.

I have been using steam since it was in beta and I have found it to be the best thing that has happened to computer games in a long time.

Edit: and steam is no slower for dial-up users than downloading a patch from a website so theres really no extra hassel for dial-up users

Edit2: Steam has an offline mode you do not not need to be connected to the internet to use it