Poll: Steam: How many games do you have on it and what do you think of the system?

[Auxiliary]

I own 36 games on Steam at this point and am sort of wondering how many games other people have stashed away on their accounts. But what I am more interested in is what you think of the system itself? The evil brother of google, destroyer of retail stores? A great system which deserves praise?

My own opinion is rather positive. I do however dislike the extremely slow download speed, lack of healthy competition, direct conversion of euro into dollars ( http://www.steamprices.com/eu ) and that it stops downloading a new game when I start another already downloaded game over steam.

The good points often speak for themselves but I'll mention them anyhow. I like being able to buy older games which I can no longer buy in retail stores, I like the steam sales for their insane discounts, I like that the developers receive a larger part of the money spend on the game, the achievement system, no risk of a broken disc and probably some things I am not mentioning here.

 

[Godhead]

I have 36 games, and I like the friends system and the steam sales which I rarely use for some reason.

 

[Napierdalac]

I love Steam. I love it because of the Friends system and the cheap ass games, when they are on sale that is. I never buy a new game on Steam.. Mostly because of the Euro Dollar thing.

 

[Corpse XxX]

i love steam.. it makes it easy to communicate with friends as you game..

also, their sales are often awesome, selling games dirt cheap.

games update themselves.. whats not to like??

 

[Ekit]

I have 13 games. I like it very much. But I hate that there is no way to tell if a game requires Games for Windows: Live before you buy it.

Wasted 200 SEK on BioShock 2 because of that.

 

[GiantRaven]

3 or 4 games. Significantly opposed to personally using Steam.

 

[mireko]

66 games, mostly because of the awesome holiday sales.

I like it, even if the currency conversion is wonky.

 

[Worgen]

Ive got 189 games on it, I like the system over all but I dislike games that are fully wrapped in it, like ones I get physical copies of just because it kind of means that they have no actual value

in case your wondering I got most of my games on the various sales and such

 

[zxcxczczx]

I have around 180, been using steam since it's release.

And it sucked back then.

 

[Zhukov]

61 games... blimey.

Although most of them were bought cheap. Sales and whatnot.

Anyway, I generally love Steam. Good prices (especially for an Australian), frequent sales, friends list, huge catalogue etc.

However, it does have a horrible habit of screwing me over every once in a while with bugs. It's a pain having almost all my games tied to the reliability of one application.

 

[Lizmichi]

Hmm I have almost 100 on Steam. Allot of it is getting Dev packs for dirt cheap and the sales. My god I love Steam's sales. Like I got the Valve, Bethesda, Star Wars Academy and GTA classic pack, that adds a shit ton on it's own.

 

[KefkaCultist]

I have 16 (17 if you include my DAII Demo) games on mine, but only about 6 of those I actually play. The others were usually on sale for pretty cheap and I couldn't pass up the offer. I became a PC gamer only a few months ago though so there will be a lot more eventually.

I love Steam and I find the arguments of the people that hate it a little bit silly.

 

[HassEsser]

STEAM is the most essential program on my computer. I have 98 games, and own every single VALVe game, including Portal 2.

 

[Korten12]

80 Games, I like the system. It's nice and simple.

 

[Kae]

I only have Portal, and I got it when it was free... I mean only downloaded steam to get free Portal because you know everybody talked about it and I wanted to see what was so special about it, it was good but it didn't convince me to get more things on Steam, and the new system? I didn't even knew there was a new system! haven't even used Steam recently.
EDIT: OK, OK, I lied I'm just a cheap bastard, haven't bought a new game in little over 2 years.

 

[JoshGod]

59 although that includes TF2 beta and crysis wars, so 57.

 

[Auxiliary]

I have around 180, been using steam since it's release.

And it sucked back then.

Everyone who played Halflife 2 was there no? I do find it hilarious that I can still download Lost Planet: Extreme Condition while I returned that game to the store because I wasn't able to install it properly on my computer.

 

[Layzor]

54, love it for the sweet deals and all the faffing it takes out of pc gaming.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I like Steam. Got the orange box, Deus Ex, and Braid for it.

I like how we can sometimes get crazy deals, or find old games for cheap, and then have it downloaded right to the PC without needing to go out and buy it.

It's convenient to have.