Got a questions about Steam

[skinnyj]

blame pirates for the move away from old school install methods. They still pirate games, but its slowed down a fair bit.

I like steam. I can buy a game, saved in my account digitally. No CD/DVD to keep track of. I have close to 100 games in my Steam account. Hell I can buy a game via the Steam app, and have it installing on my machine and be ready for me by the time I get home from work.

PC craps out, then I reload my system, queue up the downloads and Steam chugs along while I'm at work installing games, along with all my saves.

Not just pirating, but all that money and time saved on boxes, printed manuals, DVDs, ect. I think that was the bigger motivation than piracy.

While I like the instant gratification of digital distribution, I'm not big on having to go online to play single player games.