Kinda sorta
It's more robust than clicking on an app to install though. Think XBox Live meets apt-get, and you're getting there...
View ArticleSorry, no point of reference,
and I'm not referring to apt-get. I've no experience with any brand of game console.
View Articlehrm...In that case
think Windows Update where you can download MS Office and AutoCAD on the fly while also being able to interact with other users, shop for other software, view demos, look at demos, and play interactive...
View Articlei was going to say downloads.com too
It does seem to be a shopping centre of sorts. My memory may be wrong on this, but it seemed like there may have even been a payment facility?
View ArticleDoesn't paypal have a shopping centre too?
Now that I think of it, I found my first (and a very nice) webhost on paypal. They even ended up being across town from me at the time. I knew that it was a self-serving thing for paypal, bit it worked...
View ArticleThe article is how do we do it right. It can be done right.
Just no one's done it. You're right of course. those are all very valid points of what people have done wrong in the past.
View ArticleOnline buying, in-store pickup
I do it all the time, predominantly through Best Buy. I prefer online purchases (I HATE shopping), I've very rarely had any problems navigating a site. As to tax and shipping, in-store pickup takes...
View ArticleLove Steam
Love Steam and what is has done to make my life easier.As an avid gamer I have spent the better part of 20 years keeping all my original install CDs and license keys on file for all my games. It was...
View ArticleIt's called "eBay"
Paylpal was bought by eBay a few years back, so I imagine that any Paypal online store would be tightly linked to eBay.J.Ja
View Articlenope
they do have shareware in the downloads, but everything can be downloaded at no cost.
View Articlelarry, were you able to transfer / upload license codes?
A brief glance at the web site doesn't show any way to upload licenses for games I've already purchased from other sites.This looks like it might be a good way to ditch all those paper copies and...
View ArticleTry Fallout 3
Steam has plenty of good games. Just last week, I purchased Fallout 3 for half price ($25) during their weekend special. It downloaded and installed in about an hour, and is such an addictive game,...
View ArticleI guess that means going to the maker for the key?
Then again, I'm not totally confident in cnet keeping a secure locker for me. BTW, did David Hutchinson from there in Vancouver get elected? I somehow got on his spam lists for his election and real...
View ArticleNo, there's ebay too.
I'm talking about the paypal marketplace that was there before the ebay purchace. Mind, that was years ago. Maybe ebay got rid of it to get more use for its auction rubbish. *chuckle*
View ArticleOh, and I'd never buy my webhosting on ebay.
Not sure if you saw that bit in how I had used it.
View ArticleAnd paying for product placement.
Coke and Pepsi got into a bit of media trouble when the media learnt that the soft drink makers would buy 60% (or more) of the shelf space through parts of the year from the grocery stores. I guess...
View Articleheh
Or you can use a *FREE Linux repository (comes with up to 20,000 packages (Debian).Before now, I have never made a correlation from Steam to Linux Repo's, but that is a pretty fair description.*Free as...
View ArticleAbsolutely!!
It depends when the product came out though. I couldn't add the license for Quake 4 since Q4 came out a year before Steam added ID stuff to their list of purchasable games. But apparently if its a...
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