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Is Steam Harmful?

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Steam uses a client/server model not p2p and is only hurtful to your bank account, Origin on the other hand is filthy spyware.

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If that guy doesn't know what steam is... you shouldn't trust him with your computer... Steam on the contraire is a wonderful program. It doesn't use p2p (altought in itselft it isn't harmful) and provides great prices on great games. Long live steam ! (Die every other company game platform ! *cough* Origin *cough* Uplay *cough* Games for windows live)

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Steam is most definitely not harmful to your computer, and peer2peer is not either if used properly. When you said steam was p2p, he must've assumed it was a client such as utorrent that you were using to illegally obtain copyrighted material.

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I doubt his "knowledge" since he does not know what steam is. Steam does use P2P for some online enabled games (well its active from the game).  You can read about in recent update notes.  Over the millions of users steam has, I'm highly certain steam is not harmful. 

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The only thing harmful about Steam is the terrible customer service. Otherwise, nothing is really that bad with steam.

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the tech guy was probably some old fart who is still running window 95.

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Steam is a magical thing... like Xfire and GeForce Experience they are amazing... the only thing that is bad is Origin -.-

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Steam definitely is not P2P. All games are hosted on servers for download. 

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Steam in no way is harmful but they do say on some patch notes that you may have problems with some anti virus companies.

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Steam is fine. You should have explained what it was or asked him to elaborate on why he thought it's harmful. He's probably decently knowledgeable from a purely technical perspective but probably out of touch with modern trends... Maybe he thought it was a torrent client.

 

Personally I get annoyed by software that doesn't shut down when you tell it to, or leaves background processes which keep checking for updates or doing other shit. Steam stars and exits completely when you tell it to which I appreciate.

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Don't listen to these people. Steam raped my dog and killed my wife. Steam is bad RUN AWAY AAAAHHHHHHH

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Steam is the vapor from boiling water. Yes it hurts duh.

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Tell him it's iTunes for games next time

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Just noticed this similar post.. I see you have been there brother :P

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Tell him it's iTunes for games next time

Now that would be something to worry about  ;)

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Sounds like a noob to me. Whats Steam? Like seriously... anyone who is a techy should know. Steam is one of those things thats talked about so much. Its the game shop... THE.. game shop.

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Steam is harmful...

 

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Steam isn't harmful because I think that you download all your game data from their servers not from peers.

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Steam will not hurt anything :)

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