When Steam was first released by Valve, it was a pain. It was very buggy, and did not work very well. However, in the past few years, Valve has improved their Steam application greatly and now there isn’t a computer gamer anywhere that has not used it.
For those that do not know, Steam is an application by Valve that makes digital distribution easy. People can purchase games on Steam with their account and can download games they own on to the computer they are using. They can play the game from their account so you do not have to worry about keeping the CD for a game around. For a while, it was only games by Valve that made use of this. Now, almost every video game publisher is making use of it and is placing every new game on there.
Another beauty about Steam is they have sales every weekend, and a massive sale around the holidays. Every time the holiday seasons roll around, they sell games through their application at 50-90% off their normal sale price. These are amazing deals for any gamer as they can purchase games that are normally $20 at a price as cheap as $2. Some of these games that get the deals are newly released games, and some are games that have been around for years.
With the way Steam has been coming along, it is making digital distribution a popular way of distributing video games. It is an application that every computer gamer should use, and is an application that every video game publisher should use to distribute their games.