Steam is a great idea. You get to download your games and you can play anywhere that you can log in to steam. The problem is that the prices of the games are a bit on the high side. For example today Eidos have announced a load of their games are now on steam. Hitman: blood money is $35.95. It's cheaper to walk into your local game store and get it there.
For some reason the re-release on steam pumps the price up over what you can get in the stores. And then it stays there. You get the occasional reduction in price, but overall the price of each game remains reasonably static for it's life on the system. Which is frustrating.
For some reason the re-release on steam pumps the price up over what you can get in the stores. And then it stays there. You get the occasional reduction in price, but overall the price of each game remains reasonably static for it's life on the system. Which is frustrating.
Surely if you bought Hitman in the shops you could just register the product with Steam, rather than having to buy it via Steam... when Steam first came out I was able to do this with my Ultimate Halflife boxset I got many years previously. All Steam did then was download the software once it knew I had a valid licence key.