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steam may have had humble beginnings as

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that program that for some reason even retail copies of halflife 2 had to have

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installed alongside but it has since grown into the primary way that people

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purchase games for their PCS with steam sales now accounting for roughly 50 to

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75% of the total PC gaming Market such a

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huge chunk that some have argued that steam's virtual monopoly on game

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distribution could stifle competitive Innovation but no matter how you feel

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about it there is no denying that valve has refined steam into a powerful

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platform with a lot to offer Gabe new

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and valve created steam more or less out of necessity when they noticed that they

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would be inundated with problems every time they needed to update one or more

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of their online games by creating a platform with the ability to

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automatically update games valve minimized the downtime that the gamers

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would experience so that they could keep playing without having to worry about

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navigating to the developer website download the latest patch to blah blah

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blah hopefully it's up this time however despite being the norm today valve

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certainly made at least a few Gamers steaming mad by imposing online

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authentication and DRM requirements to play games especially since steam was

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still pretty buggy around the time that halflife 2 was released in 2004 often

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buckling under the stress of heavy traffic and crashing games as a result

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but much like John Stamos steam just got

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better with age and after they smoothed out their client server networking

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architecture valve started making agreements with third-party Publishers

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to diversify steam's game catalog Beyond

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its own titles and as more and more Publishers began adopting the digital

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distribution model the SU success and profitability of steam grew prompting

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valve to roll out a host of new features for the platform like cloud storage for

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you to save your online profile achievement list to reward your gaming

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instant messaging so you could easily keep in contact with your gaming friends

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and perhaps most notably the addition of community-based networking groups and I

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mean they turned it into a freaking social network recognizing the

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importance of its Community valve launched Steam Greenlight in 2012 as a

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way for users to help choose which games

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were added to the service with green light developers are able to submit

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information about their projects including early demos so users could

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pledge their support for the games that they want to see made available on Steam

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sort of like your sixth grade science fair only the winners get their projects

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published on Steam instead of some crappy School newsletter however for the

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steps that green light seemed to be making in the right direction there were

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certainly some steps backwards and some

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developers became notorious for pandering to the community by offering

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free copies of the game upon release in exchange for thumbs up effectively

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gaming the system valve has committed to replace green light with something else

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that's entirely user-driven but given that they've never been particularly

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Speedy about releases it still feels like we could be waiting for that for

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some time so then what else is in store

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for the future of steam well thanks to a partnership with HTC valve plans on

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getting into VR in a big way recently

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the HTC Vive the first steam VR headset

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was shown off with a handful of demos including a level based on Portals

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aperture science lab there's also a huge number of Steam games that already have

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the necessary code to work with the other VR headsets like the Oculus Rift

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and valve has said they'll be releasing an open-source API so that developers

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can make their games and other applic compatible with steam VR and given that

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valve tends to couple new technology releases with Flagship game releases

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maybe we can hope that the Vive will Herald the coming of the long awaited

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but never confirmed not even confirmed they were even really working on it

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halflife three probably not but you can

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go ahead and get your hopes up anyway speaking of Hope if you were hoping I

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