The piece of sh!t VALVe designed. Steam started as a VERY buggy program. After Steam deleted all the HL files from your HL folder, people found that Steam is the worst piece of sh!t ever made, but they had to stick with Steam after they had no more HL files. Not only that, Steam downloads upgrades and other crap without notifying you about it at ALL. That means that if someone can hack into the download manager of steam, they can put viruses, spyware and all the other sh!t they want without you knowing it. MILLIONS of people support that and all the other facts why steam is crap.

P.S. Satertek STFU with your double definitions
by Anonymous October 2, 2003
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A gayprogram designed to line Valve's pockets with money.
by James Washbrook September 15, 2003
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fucked up laggy assed shite program developed by retards who like spoiling peoples fun
not worth the "steam" of my shit
by UVMe January 16, 2004
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To get totaly drunk / wasted beyond comprehention
Coming to the pub to get Steamed?
by Adam Boote February 26, 2004
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1. Noun. The gaseous form of water, H20.

2. Noun. An excellent idea that manifested itself in an extremely buggy and sometimes stupid program. Automatic patching? Great! A friends network? Why didn't they think of that before? A program slower than a sloth? Not good.
1. James Watt was principle in the development of an engine working using the pressure of super-heated steam.

2. Steam took too long to update itself, so the uber-1337 WON veteran Jimmy smashed his computer, before realising that he could just shut down steam and play Counter-Striike 1.5

Why does Friends Network work only about 25% of the time?
by Comrade Dmitri March 3, 2004
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a useless program that gets in your way of playing CS, wastes your time, and does absolutely nothing.
what the fuck does steam do?
by Anonymous November 8, 2003
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A program or web service that gains a poor reputation for being released in a buggy or incomplete state, and which then gradually improves until becoming a powerful tool/platform but cannot lose the negative stigma.

e.g. Steam, Windows 9x, Warcraft 3 beta, Star Wars: Galaxies
Forget CZ, if we release now we'll get a good STEAMING from out customers.
by Varsity September 7, 2004
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