How has Steam been Improved.

Steam has had some development over the years since 2004

Steam allows games outside the valve catalog

Game Modifications are now Available off steam

Steam released Achievements in 2007 with the release of The Orange Box

A MAC version of steam was released in 2010



http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998982502

Gamers Advantages

So what does Steam offer Gamers?

Some Games require steam to be active to be played which are outside the Valve Catalog E.g Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Empire:Total War, Civ:5.

This allows for Secure Servers when playing multiplayer

The Gamer is able to buy games off Steam and download them to your computer. Similar to iTunes.

The games that are purchased from Steam are then displayed on your Profile!

Steam Community

The Steam Community

The Steam Community operates similar to Myspace

You can connect with friends via steam and even chat with them while in game

Steam also makes use of Clans and Groups

These can range from online community’s and professional gaming leagues to simply social groups such as churches, schools, workplaces etc

Richard Thompson Belongs to the DAC clan, a small group of gamers from or associated with Dapto Anglican Church

Richards Profile

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998982502

Daclan is the 2nd largest BYO Lan Party in the Illawarra and hosted a Steam Themed Lan Party using free licsneces in order to temporaliy play the Valve MP catalogue

http://daclan.net/