Steam Trading Service Kicks Off With Low Key Launch

Fair play to Valve for their unstoppable domination of the download market. They launched their service at a time when the public in general was not receptive to the idea of paying for downloading games and they've set the benchmark for how all game download services should work.

For me, there are very few things you can fault in the Steam service. I can't wait until they finally put outlets like Game into administration.

@irritant

Game into administration is a pleasant thought, 90% of that comes from work for them a long time ago, they were just as greedy then with the staff wages, we didn't even get staff discount until 2000! i still remember the area manager bragging about 300%+ profit margins on pre-owned sales and this was a time when staff discretion was used on pricing pre-owned buy ins, we were `encouraged` to give as little as possible, and make sure we gain double the buy in price... oh the guilt, if you ever came to Bolton Game in 1997-2000 on Newport street, then I apologise for the poor trade in you got and also for the worst customer service ever in a store!