What is Steam? ..and other important questions...

Steam is an online PC gaming service/platform that will hopefully save gaming on the PC for all us fans.  I have mentioned Steam before, but finally had some bandwidth and time to play with it. I have talked before about how I feel the PC-side of gaming is doomed, and that at best, PC gaming is going to be reduced to casual rubbish - due to all the serious game designers being lured over to the consoles/On Live, where all the cash/users/piracy protection is.

I haven't seen anything in the last few months to change my opinion, but just because "the end is nigh" is my opinion, please don't think I'm happy about it.  On the contrary, I want the PC Gaming experience to live on, because it is the best.  If it is going to live on, then a service like Steam is probably how it is going to happen.  And even though a great many people use the service, I tend to find that, like any well keep secret, maybe there are some of you out there who haven't heard about it yet. 

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