I have to say I hated steam when it first came out years ago it was slow and pain in the arse.

But the great thing is that I had an account years ago with bought half life2 pack and so on. I havent installed steam since I built my new PC about a year ago, just installed it there and steam knows that I bought the games off them so I can download them again and play them. FRICKING SWEET!

I have to say a big thumbs up to steam.

Steamy poo

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You eat steamy poo....good for you cow.

Steam was a bit of a bummer in the beginning but now its quite reasonable, yeah it keeps a record of what games you have bought for your account and if you login elsewhere will let you download and play them. Also does a reasonable job of keeping your config settings for playing online as well.

I also have Steam installed for a few games and find it brilliant. It used to use a lot of system RAM but seems to have improved. The fact that you can buy and manage your PC games there is brilliant for me.

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I remember at the start it was a pain but its quite good and really well thought out.

Steam is great, I have all the HalfLife games and TF2&portal on it, and COD4. very easy to load up a game without having to worry bout discs(online games, obviously for singleplayer games the dodgy stuff is there)

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I have Steam and think its good.

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