Steampunk

Firstly, you can tell my exams finished on the 2nd of June can’t you? No posts since the 1st of June. It has been some busy times since then. A lot to write if I was planning on giving another life update post but for today something simple…

Steam. No, not vapourised water. Something much more dangerous in my opinion.

What I am talking about is the game and content deilvery service by Valve. Steam is a very dangerous thing.

The danger lies in how easy it is to use (ironically, usally it’s things being really hard to use that is the dangerous thing). With just a few clicks I can easily spend a lot of money on games that I am not very likely to play. BOOM! £50+ spent on a PopCap games pack and I can just download and play them straight away.

Most would say the fact that you can download the game and then play it straight away is an advancement.  It is. The problem is; it is too good! When I go out and buy a game, I may not hand over any actual cash and see it leaving my hand, but at least I have a physical object in my hand afterwards. The more I buy, the more phyical objects I aquire and it will get too a point where there will be enough of these objects in my room that I stop buying things!

Not with steam, you just keep buying and buying and soon you have a page full of games to play, no hard drive space left (you get to order a new one with Amazon Prime then, another devil in disguise for similar reasons) and no cash in the account. Balls.

Guess who has been playing Team Fortress 2 and Portal all day