Activision are getting into the Steam bandwagon with today's announcement:

Activision, Inc and Valve® today announced an agreement to distribute four of Activision's PC games -- Call of Duty® 2, GunT, Call of Duty® and Call of Duty® United Offensive® -- using Steam.

Steam is the first full-featured broadband platform for the delivery and management of games and digital content, and has pioneered its broadband services to over 10 million customers with core titles such as Valve's Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike.

Cool, now that steam is stable and running smoothly I reckon it rocks for purchasing games.

There's insufficient discounting of titles though. They maintain them at a premium price. I remember going to purchase HL1 again at some stage near HL2s release and it was 3x more expensive on steam than at my local EB.

I preordered HL2 + HL1 + all mods + everything on the valve back catalog for 70 bucks. Compare that with pre ordering hl2 at EB.

It does end up being cheaper for us (usually) because we get f***ed over with the cost of our games. A $50US PC game we generally get for $90, whereas buying it through steam we pay $50US or $66AU - a saving of $24AU!!

yeh i find it cheaper look at the new Dark Messiah Might and Magic game it only $50 US dollars compare to the stalls for $90 AUS