I've been using steam for over 7 years … I've been using steam for over 7 years now, some mixed experiences over the years but generally glad to have all my games on steam these days. Sure DRM is hardly pro-consumer, but I'd much rather see that a game runs through steam than just about any other platform. Many standalone games that are also on steam typically leave me wanting to steam version, I can't say that about any other platform. Sales aren't what they used to be and as a result of their 'every game must participate' policy, it's lead to a lot of games remaining at full price for years after their release and only worth buying if on sale, if even then [it's been years since I've spent more than £5 during a sale]. Refunds, if used infrequently, have been good. But, be careful of playing for too long [more than 2 hours] or you'll not get a refund, so don't go afk or leave a game running in the background unless you're sure it works and you want to keep it [e.g. game crashes but doesn't close, you tab out to look for solutions, don't find any but during that time you're now over 2 hours 'played' and can't get a refund].

now this is review bombing -

What can I say What can I say? the support is one of the worst I've ever seen maybe the FUNCOM is much worse. If you tell the true on the steam forum you just got a BAN even if what you said did not violated the rules of the forum.

Stick of two sides The platform itself grows and gets better with every year. But has some problems. Good things: 1. Protection grows bigger ensuring best protection of customers, excluding the customers own mistakes. 2. Huge library of products of any kind with access from anywhere anytime. 3. Customer defense. You can return a product with minimal effort if its quality is not like developer assured you in 14 day time frame. 4. Growing functions and possibilities. Always something new that makes your experience with Steam better. 5. Sales. They are not afraid of them. They even love them. Every year at least 2 major sales with up to -98% discounts on thousands of products. Bad things: 1. Steam Support is a bit slow on work, and not always of help. 2. Region Policy is a bit off in some countries demanding a huge sum for products and even keeping them locked to that region anyway, no matter the region economy. 3. Some of the old functions are left half-way to perfection making tham even unusable in some situations(non-steam game overlay is forced on, user location is missing towns, etc.)

I was banned for saying "Who let… I was banned for saying "Who let grandma on the PC" and another for simply calling someone ignorant. Power tripping mods, devs who don't care, steam doesn't care. Yet allows racism/trolling/etc Fk steam, its a joke now.