| Users can participate in forums hosted by Valve to discuss Steam games | Bailey, Dustin February 12, 2021 |
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| from the original on August 31, 2013 | Nunneley, Stepheny July 12, 2012 |
Steam Machine [ ] Main article: Prior to 2013, industry analysts believed that Valve was developing hardware and tuning features of Steam with apparent use on its own hardware.
| com's catalog includes many of the same games as Steam but offers them in a DRM-free platform | Robert Purchese March 16, 2007 |
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| Storefront curation [ ] Up until 2012, Valve would handpick games to be included onto the Steam service, limiting these to games that either had a major developer supporting them, or smaller studios with proven track records for Valve's purposes | from the original on November 6, 2015 |
Steam has also expanded into an online web-based and mobile digital storefront.
6| A few months later, another method had been developed using game achievements to estimate sales with similar accuracy, but Valve shortly changed the Steam API that reduced the functionality of this service | from the original on October 2, 2016 |
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| Greenwald, Will December 14, 2012 | Storefront features [ ] The Steam client includes a digital storefront called the Steam Store through which users can purchase computer games |
Most appeared tied to a Russian publisher that had operated under several different names.