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03-Oct-2012, 08:41
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Steam launches its own software Store
 With Steam dominating online game sales, they've now introduced their own software store. http://store.steampowered.com/software Starting with just seven titles and a 10% discount on them for the next week, until Oct 9th, the store wiill be selling applications for both Windows and Mac (though the first titles are Windows-only).
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03-Oct-2012, 09:42
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It's cool but how many people are gonna buy any of those titles? They're all very specialist.
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03-Oct-2012, 10:25
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It's probably a relatively small part of the steam community, but enough that it'll be useful / generate sales.
Be interested to see what else appears over time!
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03-Oct-2012, 12:02
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It's probably by design to get new game devs up and running so they can put more shit on the Greenlight store!
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03-Oct-2012, 14:29
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I was thinking the same thing
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03-Oct-2012, 14:50
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I think quite a few people will buy them I reckon. Christmas is just around the corner.
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03-Oct-2012, 15:34
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It does hook in quite nicely to the other Valve rumoured valve project we discussed a little while ago.
http://www.trickery.net/vb/showthread.php?t=59624 Certainly all the pieces are falling into place to support such a move. 
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03-Oct-2012, 16:25
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I'm not sure thisadds any more weight to that, does it?
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03-Oct-2012, 16:34
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Yeah , not quite sure what selling third party software adds to a possible piece of hardware?
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03-Oct-2012, 17:41
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Aye depending on what you want to do. But given steam is kind of the ultimate app store already , them doing non games is simply good business sense.
If it is a step or leads to a bit of kit, awesome but for me one doesn't lead to the other!
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One thing a co-worker pointed out to me today is that there are steam achievements for these apps.
http://steamcommunity.com/stats/214850/achievements
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