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And you're forgetting download speeds. When steam started being successful it would take me a full day to download a game, while in steam I could get it in a co
by setzer22 9y ago
And you're forgetting download speeds. When steam started being successful it would take me a full day to download a game, while in steam I could get it in a couple hours maximum.
Maybe that's not true anymore. But I'm sure contributed to steam's success.
- slau 9y agoI think there's another point that is very important: Steam was the original cloud. Back in the day where GMail was heralded as being amazing, and offering 1GB of storage for your mails, Steam came out and said "don't worry about how to install Half-Life/CS, or which patch to apply, I'm automating all of it." "You don't need to worry about your CDs any more. I'll give you the content, for free, anytime you change PCs." "Just log in with your Steam account on the cybercafé computer. All the games you own are already installed." Steam was made mandatory to install the new version of CS (was it the 1.6 release?). That was Valve's best move ever (even though I hated it back in the day).
- komali2 9y agoSave files and settings were sucked into the cloud as well (sometimes). Great for little games I like to play on multiple computers.