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Steam expands to non-gaming software.

Gman5852Gman5852
edited August 2012 in General Chat
Yep, it happened

Steam will soon start allowing non-gaming software onto their service to use. Your thoughts?

Comments

  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited August 2012
    MS Office 90% off? Sign me up!
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited August 2012
    Eh, I probably won't buy any of it, but it'll no doubt go down well.

    ESPECIALLY if they get things like RPG Maker on there.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited August 2012
    Holy shit I would totally INSTA-BUY it.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2012
    This is awesome. Fortunately as a university employee, I don't ever pay money for a lot of software anyway.
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited August 2012
    Interesting, but also a bit scary... what if something happens to Steam? What will happen to my software? It's one thing to lose all your games, but to lose stuff that's actually important is something else.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2012
    Steam is not going anywhere. And if it does there's a tested plan in place to unlock everything.
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited August 2012
    No, but I mean, there can always be outages, and Steam accounts have been known to be hacked. Maybe I'm making too much of this, but productivity software just seems a bit too important to be dependent on a third party.

    Unless it's only the purchasing that is handled through Steam, with the actual software running completely independently of it.
  • raptorraptor
    edited August 2012
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Steam will soon start allowing non-gaming software onto their service to use. Your thoughts?

    Doesn't really make any difference to me. I generally stick with open source software in Linux, it's a lot cheaper that way.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited August 2012
    What about group/multiple licenses for a business?

    For that matter, what if my wife and I wanted to use the same program at the same time on separate machines?
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