Chase S asked:


Steam is a great program in that it lets you download a lot of games straight to your hard drive. It also has a built in instant messaging program too so you can easily be chatting with your friends within your games. Since that is built in it also makes it much easier to be connected to friends who are playing the same games and jump straight into their games.

Since you have to have steam on your computer to play the games you downloaded through it it makes it much harder to pirate games. Many companies are turning to steam to solely distribute their games now since having a physical copy makes it ten times more targeted to be pirated.

The biggest drawback to having Steam be so anti piracy is that sometimes you want to do some stuff that just isn’t allowed with it, such as play offline. Some games you may want to put on your laptop and play them offline while you are on a trip or something. Well you have to log in to be able to play it. There may be some ways around it but at this time I am not aware of any.

All in all steam is a great program because they do bring a lot of older games back to the table that you can’t run anymore if you are running Vista. I have a few hard copies of games that I couldn’t get to work anymore because I know have Vista but since you can get it through Steam it makes it work.

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