How Would You Improve Steam?

Ability to transfer screenshots.

Improved/more content servers for faster downloads.

Yes, the IE prolem is a biggie for me as i cannot seem to get internet explorer working, or rather i don't use it so don't try, it refuses to close down when opened meaning i have to right click the task bar tab, and close it there or go into task manager, a pain in the arse.

Of course, I have pretty much no problem with the steam client.

Also, the last two i would suspect are nothing to do with valve and all to do with the publisher. This is perhaps the biggest problem facing valve in concern of steam, the ignorance of the user base in regards to how things work.

If any media were to be made available in physical form it would be up to the publisher to sort out, where games are released and how much they cost are also publisher dependant as are patches and any additional content.

One of the bigger things for me is that I can't manually tell Steam to search for a game update. I know that Steam does everything autmatically and I'm probably just paranoid, but it would be nice to just right click a game and then search for updates. Currently, the most you can do (at least as far as I know) is to see what updates there are regardless of if or when you downloaded them.

The other issue I have is when Steam has to download multiple things for different games it tries to do it all at once when I only need one to play the game I want. I go and pause all the other downloads, but can't seem to restart them without exiting Steam first, and even then it says the game is ready until I try to play it, where it then starts to re-download whatever it needed to. This is where I'm coming from when I want to just right click and re-search for updates manually.

Lastly, I also agree with the two previous issues of always opening in IE and Steam freezing too much.

Also, can't believe nobody's said this, but I REALLY wish that I could add any game (provided you can buy it on Steam) that I have bought retail to My Games. I can't tell you how annoying it is to have bought lets say Company of Heroes retail years ago and not be able to add it to Steam even though I could have bought it on Steam. I'm very glad they let you unlock UE3 if you had it retail, but they should make it that way with ALL games currently offered for sale.

I think you need to learn what a license agreement is.

I also think Steam should open an affiliate marketing program. Imagine how much could be made if you can convince [del]idiots[/del] people to get 18 Wheels of Steel American Long Haul.

Seriously, I'd love to convince more people to join the L4D community and make a little money of it.

It's funny... everyone I know has horror stories about the Steam client. It's never crashed once for me. In fact, it works flawlessly. I've been running it on two machines for about two years, and never had any issue with it.

I know, I hate that. At least the low-res trailer plays in Steam.

Thing is, steam is built around IE7. Prove it to yourself: connect to steam, then disconnect from internet. Refresh steam store page. It'll give you an out-of-place looking blue/white 'page cannot be displayed' error. You'll recognize it from IE.

Also, it always bugs me that you can't block those pop-up alerts about events. All the groups I'm in use events, and they're useful. I just wish it prompted the same bottom-right corner popup that friend logins create (the one which goes away after 3secs).

One more (minor) annoyance: I wish they'd post a game's original release date as well as the "released on steam" date. I just got on today and did a double-take for a second: "whoa, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time came out in 2008??"....

Time management is the key, have something to eat, do your homework a little gaming then bed by 8 o'clock sounds reasonable.

lol @ bed by 8 good luck with that