yeah thatīs quite a good thing, but imagine all or more game developers would use such a platform like steam...

maybe not at the moment, but who knows in the future and they sure thinkin of this possibility to release games...i wouldnīt like it and i donīt thing every gamer would live with the troubles there were( activation and so on), if the game wouldnīt have been HL2, which is a blockbuster, at least i wouldnīt take all this trouble for e.g. deer hunter 2005 or something like that..
and i want the game in a case with a manual and all this stuff and not only the installation files on my pc...