Is Steam now the base of PC gaming?

it seems to me that alll games now come out on steam.

and does every PC gamer have it? ive been away from PC gaming 4 awhile

Minus select games made by various developers(Blizzard and EA included), yes. But the games get added months after their retail releases. You can usually find the big names on Steam within a month of their release on other services.

In many ways yes, but it's not the only service of it's kind. There is also Direct Downloader, Impulse, and a couple other major services. While I do like Steam very much, for the next to PC games I plan on getting, Section 8 and Modern Warfare 2, I'm getting the retail boxed versions.

Not necessarily, none of my real-life PC gamer friends use Steam. I don't either, except for Left 4 Dead because it forces me to.

I think a good majority of PC Gamers have Steam.Deadly_Fatalis

I use Steam when I need to... to play Valve games or get super-discounted games or compilations not available elsewhere. I find the prices on Steam abit ridiculous for the most part...Im not going to pay the same price or more for a digital subscription.

Much prefer a physical copy of games.

I think microsoft can easily take this title away from steam if they tried

The only reason I use Steam is to play Left 4 Dead, Steam basically is a rip-off from Microsoft's Games for Windows Live. They totally ripped Live's achievement system. True Steam may have more features like talking to friends out of game and you can buy online but Steam is much more of a resource hog than GFWLand you have to be online to activate your games on Steam. I think once Live 4.0 is released their will be a few changes to the PC gaming world and hopefully it will be for the better. I'm sick of Steam users cussing GFWL service too and I'm ready for the hate mail to roll in from the fanboys!

The only reason I use Steam is to play Left 4 Dead, Steam basically is a rip-off from Microsoft's Games for Windows Live. They totally ripped Live's achievement system. True Steam may have more features like talking to friends out of game and you can buy online but Steam is much more of a resource hog than GFWLand you have to be online to activate your games on Steam. I think once Live 4.0 is released their will be a few changes to the PC gaming world and hopefully it will be for the better. I'm sick of Steam users cussing GFWL service too and I'm ready for the hate mail to roll in from the fanboys!

WarLokk1980

I think microsoft can easily take this title away from steam if they tried

kemar7856

I don't use steam :P