Why is Steam so successful?

Steam allows non valve games while uplay and origin is limited to their own?

Well meth really starts to take it's toll on my body and wallet. Steam just hurts the wallet. So in my mind, Steam is an easy win.

It works.

They provide a cool service, regular discount deals and a cool client with a good library and social features = massive win compared to anything else. +they were among the very first and made an excellent move with making HL2 available for Steam only.

Early start IMO.....Steam was the first widespread digital distribution system, it sucked at first and people hated it, but beyond the rocky start people started to embrace and love it as it improved.

Cheap games.

Because games. Because many games. Because very many games. Because cheap. Because sales. Because friends. Because messenger. Because trading cards. Because achievements. Because Early Access. Because fun. BECAUSE IT WORKS. Because because because.

Its established...steam is over 10 years old.
Like World of Warcraft...nothing special about that, just because it was one of the first in that magnitude its still popular.

Convenience.
That's often been the easiest way for me to sum up the good things about Steam versus the things I don't like about most other services.

Wherever I hang out, that place becomes popular. Just look at SG.

Because of gaben, people loves to feed a gaben.

GABEN

because

look at the competition...
is like Bruce lee vs a mortal human.

Free games, sales, trading market place... And more stuff

Steam is successful because it was created by the people who changed how first person shooters were.

Because Gaben said so

because it has origin as its main competition so yea... :D

Because it's powered by unicorns' dandruff and rage of Dota 2 players.

Steam is so successful because it was the first, and for a good long while only digital distributor for PC games. So, even if Origin is a much better program than Steam, the overall userbase and wide library of Steam completely overshadows the competition.

As for Uplay, it's just a god awful piece of software.

Good games, trading, steam wallet, steam market, all games on 1 place, Gaben, IceFrog <3, steam trading cards , you can get most of games for free by buying with steam wallet that you earnd by selling stuff on market, they listen community when it comes to updateing their own games, then amazing sales, always inovative, then they were here with us pc gamers when other companies went to make only console games, Valve was always here for us <3 , and milion other reasons.... Steam <3 Valve <3 Dota <3

Because of reasons ;_;

It was the first by YEARS, has cheap/free games all in the same convenient place, keeps improving and diversifying its services and... it works.
The only downside I could experience is the customer service: the one time I needed a hand, they simply copy/pasted pieces of some FAQ I already read. Twice. <.< Even though I managed to find the solution on Steam's Forum, I still expect a bit more from GabeN.

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