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About the complaint that Steam is "intrusive in your computer". What isn't nowadays? The only way to avert that is to become completely disconnected from the internet altogether. So many programs sit in the background "checking you out" it is alarming. With Steam you can actually play in offline mode any time you want. And the only thing that remains "intrusive" is your game catalog on the taskbar notification area. And this is much more a conven

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I have been using Steam ever since the beginning (when it became the 'DRM' for HL2) and am extremely pleased with it. At first I thought I would miss "having the box, DVD, instructions", etc. for my games. But now I will buy a game first on Steam over a shelf copy. Good things to consider about Steam: 1. You don't have to worry about losing or damaging your game discs again 2. You don't have to store, write down, or worry about losi