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

[Summerstorm]

Massively expensive? TF2 is $20, and it was $2.50 during Halloween. I picked up Trine, World of Goo, and Cogs for $15 total last year. I got audio surf for $5. The list goes on.

Massively restrictive? If by this you mean you can't buy one copy of a game and play it with thirty friends then sure.

Nah, i mean to get new non-indie games. Steam charges 50 euroes here for most AA-Titles. (Which go at Amazon or retailer for maybe 35-40, and sometimes cheaper)

ALSO they have a bad habit of censoring stuff. (I bought Fallout 3 for example, and even if they sold it with "English, French, German etc. Language options - i could only have the german version - which SUCKS... and that was also CUT. So i had to download the game elsewhere to play what i paid for.)

For the same reason i couldn't buy L4D2 and Saints Row 2 there. MASSIVE unneccessary censoring.

Indie-Titles and the special dicounts on older games are OK though, I often buy those.

 

[veloper]

Massively expensive? TF2 is $20, and it was $2.50 during Halloween. I picked up Trine, World of Goo, and Cogs for $15 total last year. I got audio surf for $5. The list goes on.

Massively restrictive? If by this you mean you can't buy one copy of a game and play it with thirty friends then sure.

Nah, i mean to get new non-indie games. Steam charges 50 euroes here for most AA-Titles. (Which go at Amazon or retailer for maybe 35-40, and sometimes cheaper)

ALSO they have a bad habit of censoring stuff. (I bought Fallout 3 for example, and even if they sold it with "English, French, German etc. Language options - i could only have the german version - which SUCKS... and that was also CUT. So i had to download the game elsewhere to play what i paid for.)

For the same reason i couldn't buy L4D2 and Saints Row 2 there. MASSIVE unneccessary censoring.

Indie-Titles and the special dicounts on older games are OK though, I often buy those.

Blame your government.
Most western countries don't have such heavy censoring, so Steam doesn't have to. Your best option is to get retail UK versions, but this issue doesn't come to the rest of the world.

Also, everybody else waits until there's a steam sale going on and that happens often enough. I'll agree that mailorder is cheaper when you cannot wait.

 

[Knife-28]

Well, I have 8, 5 of which (The Orange Box) I bought in retail and yet, I HAD to install steam to play the F***ing things, and what happens when I'm offline, BOOM, can't play em.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Well, I have 8, 5 of which (The Orange Box) I bought in retail and yet, I HAD to install steam to play the F***ing things, and what happens when I'm offline, BOOM, can't play em.

Uh, you can play the games when you're offline.

 

[Wolfinton]

I have 56 games, these do not include the games that I have added to the Steam Library myself -- the ones not connected to Steam.

Love the systme as a whole.

 

[Knife-28]

Well, I have 8, 5 of which (The Orange Box) I bought in retail and yet, I HAD to install steam to play the F***ing things, and what happens when I'm offline, BOOM, can't play em.

Uh, you can play the games when you're offline.

Really? Hu, Maybe Steam just hates me -_-

 

[The Gnome King]

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.

I love Steam. Right now my main complaint with it is that I can't buy Sims Medieval on it.

Main reason I love Steam is that it keeps my game collection all for me in one convenient place, so I don't have to worry about losing a physical disc or what happens if my hard drive crashes and needs a re-format. I love being able to have all my games on EVERY one of the three PCs at home I use, and knowing that if anything happens to one of my PCs; no sweat - Steam's got me covered.

 

[tombman888]

23 games
13 demos
and 2 mods

As for steam itself? I LOVE IT!!

 

[DaJoW]

Not many. Resented it for the longest time, but I'm coming around after getting DA2 on it and looking into it closer, used to only have it because Orange Box told me to.

 

[Om Nom Nom]

11-25.

It's very convenient, and I enjoy using it most of the time. That said - I'm sure to keep the game data backed up and a cracked client ready if they ever do the unspeakable and disallow access to my games. The longer that sits gathering dust the better; I hate having to bypass DRM to use something I've paid for.

 

[AngryMongoose]

I do however dislike the extremely slow download speed

Wow really? Steam is probably the fastest download service I have.

 

[Bags159]

Massively expensive? TF2 is $20, and it was $2.50 during Halloween. I picked up Trine, World of Goo, and Cogs for $15 total last year. I got audio surf for $5. The list goes on.

Massively restrictive? If by this you mean you can't buy one copy of a game and play it with thirty friends then sure.

Nah, i mean to get new non-indie games. Steam charges 50 euroes here for most AA-Titles. (Which go at Amazon or retailer for maybe 35-40, and sometimes cheaper)

ALSO they have a bad habit of censoring stuff. (I bought Fallout 3 for example, and even if they sold it with "English, French, German etc. Language options - i could only have the german version - which SUCKS... and that was also CUT. So i had to download the game elsewhere to play what i paid for.)

For the same reason i couldn't buy L4D2 and Saints Row 2 there. MASSIVE unneccessary censoring.

Indie-Titles and the special dicounts on older games are OK though, I often buy those.

I assume the censoring is regional specific? I got USA L4D2 and there's no censoring as far as I could tell.

 

[Fidelias]

I have 47 games. Wow, I didn't realize I had so many games...

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

I have the Orange Box, Garry's Mod and Left 4 Dead 2 on Steam. I think the platform is good in concept, but the constant updates can grate a little. (It doesn't help that my internet connection recently went kaput and now I can only download at <5KB/s).

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

218 games at the moment, I really like Steam. Good deals, big games library a decent amount of support for non valve games and the automatic updates are pretty handy and they hardly ever dangle offers in front of me only to tell me at the checkout that its not available in my region (I'm looking at you Impulse!).

oh and in spite of them seeming to turn into a retail monopoly they aren't dicks, look at all the love they've given the indie crowd especially with the marketing tie in with portal 2.

 

[viranimus]

I have a selection of the free games such as Alien swarm, Americas army 3, Moonbase alpha, but really dont count those, because, well they are free.

Beyond that I predominantly reserve steam for valve games such as Left 4 dead 2 & Team fortress 2 as well as Indie games you basically wont find anywhere else. Triple A titles I would absolutely NEVER buy for myself on steam because, well, you know, I like owning what I pay for.

I bought AaAaAA!!! RDFG and Zenoclash for use with the kinect hack later while they were on sale during christmas sale.

Bought Deus Ex1 GOTY by accident for 2.50, but a happy accident
Bought Braid... Wasnt an accident and wasnt happy.

was gifted Arkham asylum GoTY, because it was on my wishlist from the christmas contest and forgot it was on there.

7 games which all told came up to be roughly 25$ spent and that is more than I ever intended to spend on not owning games.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I really like it

I have a few games on there which I dabble in. Some of my gaming is non steam on my pc though.