I personally buy all my games through steam and I wanted to see if other do the same.
Do you use Steam to buy your games?
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, May 14 2008 11:29 PM
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Guest_darkscythe16
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 01:53 AM
lol no one has voted yes so far
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 08:54 AM
Lolno. Steam is terrible and I'm not exactly swimming in free hard drive space. Hard drives are getting cheap but when PC games are clocking in at around 10 GB (Team Fortress 2 is ~8 GB fresh installed), its hard to justify a ~4 hour download time vs. a ~30 minute install time to play a PC game.
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 02:16 PM
Steam is actually a very good way of sharing medium, the only issue is they screw Australia over and charge us more for less. SO nope, we don't use steam. We actually try to activly boycott it due to its nurturing of thievery and over pricing.
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Guest_gun_scout
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Posted 23 May 2008 - 07:52 PM
Yes i buy mine through steam better prices!!
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Posted 25 May 2008 - 04:10 PM
i don't trust internet when i buy things
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Guest_T$0pI
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Posted 04 June 2008 - 08:48 AM
I don't(and won't)use steam to buy games...even piracy is better than buying games on the internet
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Posted 05 June 2008 - 12:47 AM
Steam is great because of the dirt cheap weekend deals.
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Guest_HDTV
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Posted 05 June 2008 - 09:06 AM
lol no one has voted yes so far
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Posted 17 June 2008 - 05:18 PM
I buy from steam only when i cant buy it from a local store. It takes to long to downlad the game from steam 
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Posted 19 June 2008 - 03:59 AM
Store for the win, why doesn't love a good trip to the store to chat with the guys selling, and getting a good ol hard copy!
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Posted 19 June 2008 - 04:03 AM
no one has voted yes so far
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Guest_Kai Dragon
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Posted 19 June 2008 - 04:11 AM
Four people have thats called 4 lol
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Posted 22 June 2008 - 08:40 AM
Steam sucks imo... Playing MP on it is hell, and buying game on it? no thx... i rather spent 15min going to the storre getting a game and around 5min installing a game than spent 4-6h downloading a game on steam...
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Posted 28 June 2008 - 12:15 AM
Steam is great i like hehheeh APA !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Guest_Scytheron
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Posted 30 June 2008 - 12:25 AM
Naw, i use a good ol' handy Best Buy or Gamestop.I just like the safe feeling of it being physically here right now to comfort the ache of the money which is no longer burning a hole in my pocket.~Scy
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Posted 19 June 2009 - 07:33 PM
I don't because steam is unreliable and as I am a java coder I know the number one thing to look at before using any program is reliability.
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Posted 23 June 2009 - 05:37 PM
no... because i think its not realy safety to buy games form steam..
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Posted 24 June 2009 - 03:15 AM
Contrary to many people here, I only buy my PC games on steam. 1. Updates are pre-managed for me so I don't have to go looking to see if they have been released.2. Works as an excellent backup system. Even if I lost all my backup copies and my PC, I'd still have my games.3. Very often, the prices are lower than retail or close to it (e.g. Plants Vs. Zombies is $9.99 on steam but $19.99 to buy online on PopCap's site)4. WEEKEND DEALS!!!! 
...and promos too such the current one where you pre-order the new Call of Juarez and get the first one for free.5. All my games are essentially portable kept neatly together making it easier to do manual backups (just copy over the steamapps folder to a backup HDD and I'm done..6. Several game that had DRM like SecuROM have a steam release which is DRM free.
...and promos too such the current one where you pre-order the new Call of Juarez and get the first one for free.5. All my games are essentially portable kept neatly together making it easier to do manual backups (just copy over the steamapps folder to a backup HDD and I'm done..6. Several game that had DRM like SecuROM have a steam release which is DRM free.
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Posted 24 June 2009 - 06:42 AM
I do, cause gamestop are well.... those who have had problems with gamestop know what they are.... and best buy is unreliable when it comes to new pc games, plus deal of the week and software collections ftw 
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 02:33 AM
I certainly buy my games where I can on Steam, prices are crazy high for video games in New Zealand. It is not unheard of for the price difference between a game on steam and in store to be up to 50NZ$ (about 32US$). I have also found their download speed to be of little problem, although internet is another problem area in NZ so perhaps my expectations are lower? (lol I rock at selling my country)
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 03:09 AM
Yes but in Australia we have a download limit and once you use up all of it your speed drops to 8kb/s. Its good because its a lot cheaper on steam.
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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:01 PM
I don't even know what steam is! 
