Steam is the best online games distribution system around at the moment. It certainly had a rocky start - a lot of people had dramas trying to play Half Life 2 when it came out along with Steam.
Advertising and automatic updates come with the territory imo. If Steam wouldn't work on their PCs then fair enough. But in terms of annoying them - there's occasional steam client auto-updates and the start-up news/special offers screen (which can be turned off I think). If that's all it takes to annoy your kids I feel sorry for you as a parent - you must walk on eggshells around them! And in terms of more fish - yeah there's heaps of other games publishers around, but more and more of them are moving to Steam as a distribution channel. Overall Steam has been the single smartest thing Valve has done so far. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2009 10:49 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Our new silverlight site > Abandoning a game on principles is rare dude :) Espec when it comes to that game. no principles involved. They were sick of Steam continually annoying them. and being broken. And they moved on. It was that simple. There are many more fish (games in this case, product suppliers in general) in the sea. _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
