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Having the full support of pretty much every major publisher that makes PC titles except [[Blizzard]], Maxis (except for ''[[Spore]]'' and ''[[SimCity]]'') and [[Electronic Arts]] (who have their own [[Digital Distribution]] platform, [[Origin (EA)|Origin]]), the service makes it easier to just download and play PC games, due to having over one thousand titles available for download, many of which are classic games in their own right-and now it boasts more than 30 million unique users. Not bad for a company that made its first game 12 years ago.
The program has its own [[Hatedom]], partly thanks to the service's self-imposed [[DRM]], but also due to surprisingly high prices, which Steam circumvents by offering weekly discounts on specific products. Further, as [[Digital Distribution]] has become more popular, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131225210755/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_245/7285-Steam-A-Monopoly-In-the-Making some of the ways Steam does things have proven unfriendly to competition]. Ironically, the reaction to [[Electronic Arts]]' digital service ''Origin'' was highly negative, with a ''ton'' of people wishing they just stuck to Steam, though this is largely in part due to majority opinion that Origin is not only a vastly inferior service for a variety of reasons (it can be argued that Steam's success is because it provides a variety of useful services nobody else provides), but also due to Orgin's [[Internet Backdraft|highly controversial]] terms of service.
In 2010, the interface underwent a major overhaul, designed to coincide with the release of Steam for the Mac. [[Your Mileage May Vary|Opinions]] [[Internet Backdraft|are]] [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|mixed]].
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