| MaxwellGT2000 said: You're also forgetting some big points that steam has as a free service. 1) Bigger sales than any other service out there, more than XBLs deal of the week, PSN plus sales, or Nintendos complete lack of them lol 2) Servers, steam games are mostly server based with the exceptions like MW2 (lulz) making for more stable online games and being yet another thing Valve/publishers are supplying when XBL requires peer to peer. 3) Automatic updates, none of this pop a game in and see there's been 3 updates since the last time you played with 600MB of downloading needed, which ends up making you wait before you can play, no steam does it all seamlessly in the background and when you want to play it's ready! 4) Downloading entire games, yeah XBL and PSN has started doing this but its not their entire library, Steam goes all the way back to some big PC games of the mid 90s, and just like the updates they'll download in the background seamlessly multiples at a time, at high speeds, again all for free. Yep and no pesky fees, yet I'd be more willing to pay for Steam than XBL any day |
Of all the features I've seen in these services, the only one I'd argue would actually be worth paying some form of money for is cloud storage. The cost Valve probably incurs by providing storage and access for that data combined with the convenience it provides is the one thing I could see myself willingly providing cash for.
Thankfully I don't have to. 
