Steam

So a little bit back I did a review of PAYDAY: The Heist. Those of you with good memories should recall that I mentioned I purchased the game through Steam and told you if you didn't know what Steam was should should find out. Well if you haven't done so yet this post is a way to do that.

So, other than water heated to the point of boiling and turned into a vapor, what is Steam? Steam is a digital distribution platform from Valve. You may know valve as the guys behind Left 4 Dead, Half-life, and Portal. What's that? You love all three of those games? I know Valve makes wonderful games. A while back they made Steam to help sell their great games, and other people's games, to the public in an easy, safe, legal, and above all else cheap manner.

Steam is the king of the sale. At any point on any day in the entire year there is something on sale on Steam. At least one something but typically a handful of somethings with daily deals rolling over every 24 hours three days of midweek madness ever single week. Damn near every game being reduced price if pre-purchased or bought during the first week. And many of the pre-purchases come with extra goodies for fucking free. And not just hats for team fortress two either. Yes often times valve will give out tf2 gear t people who pre-purchase games but often, I saw it most recently with Prototype two, they will in fact give out whole games for a pre-purchase. A little while back Steam said to me "Hey man, you buy Prototype two now while it's pre-release, we will give you Prototype one to play for this week while you wait." And I've seen that same deal before more than once. Pre-purchase the sequel and get the original for free is a relatively common deal from Steam.

Now when I say something is always on sale you think I probably mean 5 or maybe 10% off. 15% if Steam is going crazy that day right? Nope. As I write this the daily deal is the original Fallout for 66% off. And sure it's an older game so there aren't many people that would buy it now anyway but let me list all the other deals going on right now.

Fallout collection 66% off
sleeping Dogs 10% off
Death Rally 15% off
Legends of Pegasus 15% off
Fallout 66% off
Cannon fodder 3 15% off
AirMech Beta Bundle 33% off
Fallout 2 66% off
Jagged Alliance: Crossfire 15% off
A virus named Tom 25% off
Fallout tactics: brotherhood of steel 66% off
Quake 2 50% off
A virus named tom soundtrack 25% off
Deponia 20% off
If you Pre-purchase Dishonored right now you get a discount on the Quakecon Bundle.

All that on sale right this moment as I write this post on a Monday afternoon. This is typical for steam on a random weekday afternoon. It's not like steam is having some big crazy Summer sale. That happened a week or so ago. It was when I got Payday for 75% off. And either during that or right after is when Blue got by his words "Fallout 3 all the dlc like 6.99 fallout NV and all dlc 10" $17 for two great games and four big dlc packs for both as well as the little start up junk for New Vegas. I think bastion was 66% off when I got it. Portal 2 was also I believe 66% off.

Every day of every week you can expect a list of deals more or less this long unless of course you look during the yearly summer sale or Christmas sale at which point that list would probably be two or three times this length.

Add in to this a load of totally fucking free games including everyone's favorite hat wearing simulator team fortress two and there is really just no reason to be a pc gamer and not have Steam. It is a fucking fantastic service that I am happy to give my money to.

10 vats of one hundred degrees Celsius water turning to vapor out of 10