Nah they're good. Half Life 2 was stellar back in 2004. Portal 2's narrative was very well executed. If you're gonna criticize Valve on anything, criticize the clumsy release of the Steam Machines and the bizarre lack of a D-pad on the Steam controller. Or all the shoddy Steam games Jim Sterling always bangs on about.

It's easy to forget just how much Steam's done for making PC gaming great again. Even ten years ago, it wasn't the norm for games to generally come with a PC version. If they did, PC versions usually came late, ran poorly, never had DLC released, sometimes even had insane DRM applied - just look up StarForce's DRM and all the problems that caused. PC was greatly seen as a giant piracy bay and a means to play MMOs, and that attitude's slowly gone away over the past decade. Whether you like Valve or not, you can't deny that Steam managed to make PC gaming as a whole much, much better.
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