steam really has a stranglehold on the PC gaming market.
I love steam I can see what it is the largest digital distrubution of PC games, that is the only place I download games!
same it can be great but bad at time too.
I agree good and bad, sometimes glitchy, but I do like that multiplayer gaming and video streaming is offered
yea its quite well designed and maintained.
I agree, I like that they automatically update the games
oh yea i know what you mean but those downloads can take time quite often.
-game voice and chat functionality.
The software provides a freely available application programming interface (API) called Steamworks, which developers can use to integrate many of Steam's functions into their products, including matchmaking, in-game achievements, microtransactions, and support for user-created content through Steam Workshop. Though initially developed for use on Microsoft Windows operating systems, versions for macOS and Linux were later released. Mobile apps were later released for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone in the 2010s. The platform also offers
But when Steam began distributing games digitally, he found there was life left in his games after all. "I thought that games would be disposable," Lanning admitted. "What I didn't expect was that ten years later, after Abe released in '97, on Steam... people were actually willing to start buying again." And though there was a monetary investment involved in making his games compatible for the PC using digital distributors like Steam and GOG, it cost them almost nothing to distribute digitally on the PSN