As the topic reads, the use of steam can be a blessing or a curse. In my personal experience I purchased a game that cost me quite a bit of money and to my disappointment, I needed to download stuff from steam. I get the fact that you need to download certain patches to the game but my internet connection speed is not that great and I was faced with hours of waiting for the game to download. Only later after a heck of a lot of research was I able to find how to install from the actual disc I bought. It felt so unnecessary. I get the fact that steam is an awesome community where you can track your achievements and have all of your games organized into one place, but that comes at a cost of missioning your way around playing the actual game... What are your thoughts?