Since it’s inception in 2003, Valve’s Steam service has come a long way. Starting out as an inconvenient, and buggy necessary evil for Hal-Life 2, it grew into a huge storefront, and destination for the biggest PC games. It adapted to the concerns, and needs of a community going so far as to create it’s own, eventually dwarfing online store services in the console market in terms of members. It became famous for week long door buster deals during the summer, and winter months igniting sales on existing games during what have always been lull periods for releases. How many times have you been on a video game message board to see threads of boasting huge sales? How many times have you heard friends talk about getting some of your favorite games on their computer for a lot less than $60, and legitimately?

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