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Valve today announced that Steam has now surpassed 15 million accounts. This follows what has been a decent string of titles recently released onto the platform for distribution, including Bioshock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and of Course all the goodness of the Orange Box, including Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Half Life 2: Episode Two.

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now how many of those are banned

Pfffft, only about ten million

Having watched Steam grow from it's inauspicious beginnings with CS to become the premier game delivery vehicle of the internet has been a long and at times frustrating journey. However as my COD4 (and most new games) only cost me $50 I can forgive it some bad habits

GG Steam. WD Valve.

It is pretty amazing how Steam has grown. I used to hate it oh so much, but now it really is quite good Grats to them

all games should be released on steam. (at the same price as the USA of course.) its so much easier and a much better way to buy games.

mine only cost me $22 + $10 postage

shame that activision decided to try and royally screw us aussies via steam

Yes, I've been using Steam since the very first days it was released aswell, a much better system then WON was. WON Was good at the time, but with more games coming out and mods for them, Steam is great at what it does. We've all had problems with it before, I've dealt with probably every problem that steam has to offer as I've been using it since it was released, I installed it in some LAN Cafe in Perth when it was released.

Steam is the future of delivering games, now we just need to buy them before their price goes up from companies like Activision deciding to up the price for Australians >>

Grats Steam, Job well done!

Yeah, steam was craptastic when it first was released... oh how painful it was. Made WON look like a gem. But as time has gone by steam has shown to be quite a blessing in some ways.

Oh how I remember the WON days of connecting to servers via console, and how stylish mods used to try make the console as it was the most used part of any HL mod lol.

i'll admit it's been a little interesting seeing Steam evolve over time but that doesn't change my total dislike for it or Valve

I think that valve and steam are going to save pc gaming a job well done to them I have had problems with steam but they do so much for us for free it's hard not to have nothing but admiration for them

So you dislike Valve for making one program? >.>

I'm not sure how you could dislike them with all the great titles they have under their belt.

He quotes himself in his sig, I wouldn't take him too seriously...

don't jump to conclusions my dislike for Valve has built up over the years, HL2: Collectors edition, cancellation of Black Box, complete failure at episodic content, the overrated nature of their games (the HL series are good games but not great or the be all end all games people make out imo) steam offline mode not working, steam shoving updates down my throat causing me to be unable to play my games for ages (56k user), steam not even updating (far too many times has steam refused to update itself when a client update was present, it'd get up to 50% max and then just quit itself and i'd have to start from scratch) those are just a few examples why I hate Valve/Steam, nothing personal, and i'm not doing it just to annoy someone, I truly don't like em

I have never liked steam and never will.


Personally I would rather buy my games from a guy who knows games and plays games just like me, find out about new releases, news and a lot of other information about what's going on.

COD4 only costed me an extra $10 - $15 to buy from Game anyways.

I think steam is a great program.
I made an account the day it was released for cs, and have never had any problems with it, initially it had a few minor bugs but they were not so bad as people make out and i was on a 56k connection back then.

I buy all my games through steam now it's great