From Dust is 50% off on Steam today

Once you reach a certain level of purchases on Steam , i.e. you have most of the publisher packs , and games you are interested in , your interest starts to wane , your attention turns elsewhere this year for instance I will be spending more money on Good Old Games 50% sale than on Steam's .  This does not mean that the old boys of digital distribution cannot throw up a gem or two , today I have my first purchase , From Dust which coming  from legendary game designer Eric Chahi, is a must have.


The Steam folks are aware of the game  purchasing ennui that sets in after several  years of being a Steam customer  and thus of late sales have been accompanied with  user interaction events designed to get you  moving around the site and interacting with  other users. This attempt to socialize Steam use is very necessary as Valve want and need to  riff off the social network vibe. However the very nature of downloading   up to twenty gigs of a game at a time means Steam is at a great disadvantage, as  rival  onlive allows you to play near instantly and has social gaming at a level that core gamers who are not your typical Facebook  gamer,  are comfortable with.With onlive you watch live games and  can have people watch, listen, and talk, as  well as record your game play and across every internet enabled device you are  likely to own.So whilst Ironed rot say no to anyone gifting  me every game on Steam,  I would rather have every game on onlive why? Think of the installing re-installing, patching, time land cost of hardware upgrades that traditional download based PC and now  ios and Android gaming entails.

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