So what are the positive sites about steam and what do you like the most.Share some positivity

It was a great resource that powered the industrial revolution...

It's also great to see it shoot out of the kettle as it begins to boil, because it means the wait for my coffee will soon be over...

I tend not to like Steam, but in relation to GOG, I like Steam's...

... catalogue.

Although there are games missing from Steam, almost every new game gets released there.

... download speeds.

I always find Steam's download speeds to be better than the competition.

... community engagement / modding.

Game pages get a lot of traffic and with Steam Works (mod incorporation) there's added reason to engage.

In the past I might have said "price," but not anymore.

Steam has a lot of theoretically good points to it, but they are all outweighed by, and also made bad by, the fact it is a DRM, pay-to-rent service.

It's a well made stable client with minimal bugs with heaps of features and the company that runs it is richer than most African countries, so the idea of it disappearing and losing your games is probably 1 in a billion.

Steam is a great site to peruse user reviews of games and game guides. It hosts a lot of those. It also has game preview videos that are downloadable in webm format. In short, it is a great metadata complement to the games I purchase on GOG, just like imdb is for shows and movies.

And they are pushing for a greater Linux presence in gaming (and financing the Wine team via proton).

To counterbalance this, they mainstreamed rent-disguised-as-ownership (which was an aberration to most gamers in the age of dvds before Steam made it the norm), spearheaded vendor lock-in in the PC gaming market (ie, you can thank Steam for strongly motivating Gog to develop Galaxy and also inspiring them to limit its scope to their centralised online servers just like Steam is doing) and last I checked, they were ripping off content creators too.