Re:the use of steam (Score 1)

I agree that they are wasting time with the Steam development. Potentially, they could make a lot of money eliminating the distribution middle men (MS/Atari/etc and Compusa/Ebgames/etc), but it seems to me that a game company should focus on games. If they want to be a content distribution company, great, but why work on Half-life 2? They only have finite resources, and they're being squandered on Steam, just like they wasted a bunch of time on some Steam predecessor (that was supposed to deliver content on demand or something), whose name escapes me. Maybe they just couldn't resist saying things are "Steam Powered." Of course, they could've called the HL2 engine "steam" and gotten the same mileage...