Steam Expanding

Sounds like a great move. Although I don't run Steam on my Mac's I have it on my Games PC and can see this being a winner.
 
ZombieFan said:
It will be interesting to see how they apply the Steam DRM to this. I wouldn't like it if you have to log into Steam to run your apps, especially with things that you want to load during startup. Just one more hoop to jump through.
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Run steam on start-up, auto log-in
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Squark said:
Run steam on start-up, auto log-in
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So you're happy to log into windows, wait for Steam to run from your start-up and wait for Steam to authenticate over the internet before any other start-up apps execute? Wow.

I've a feeling that they are going to significantly redesign the Steam client for this. Not just from a UI point of view. Steam is a one-user system meaning that any games you buy are tied to your account. This may be a bump in the road for Valve when they implements apps which traditionally can be shared between multiple users on the same machine.

Will they restrict it so that apps will have to be bought multiple times for each user? Or will they open up the client to allow multiple logins to the same Steam account?

This news may also be related to Valve's previous news about their expansion into Linux. Valve may be trying to get an early head-start in starting up an app-store style service on Linux to grab the market share.
 
I`m confused. Do Valve actually make these software or simply allow 3rd parties to sell them trough steam?
 
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