I have finally decieded to try Steam and log my experiences here. I have been a part in many principal discussions about Steam, but now its time to tame the beast.

Just to state my personal feelings before I start. I like to buy games online and have used Impulse and Gamersgate quite a lot. I dont like games made exclusively for a single platform, and I dont like being forced to be online to play. Some times I travel to places with no connectivity, like my parents cottage and my wifes homeland.

Here we go.

Chapter 1: Getting the Steam client

I bought Fotball Manager at Gamersgate for 8 Euros, and I saw that I would need a 3rd party account to play (I knew this would be steam). After buying the game I clicked download at Gamersgate as usual and the game downloaded and installed. At the end of the installation the Steam client came to life. I filled in a new account and my first problem arrived. The client got stuck on creating account. I killed it manually after about 10 minutes. I got an activation email and got my account activated anyway

Chapter 2: Starting my first game (and installing it twice).

After restarting the Steam client, it seems that my account was created, and I then wanted to start my already installed Football Manager game. I copied the activation code from Gamersgate into Steam and it was accepted. Steam DID NOT seem to realize that I had downloaded 2 GB and installed the game, so it started downloading the game again. Not good.

I am now writing this while I wait for steam to download the game. To be continued.