Steam As We Know It Has Just Changed Forever

Steam As We Know It Has Just Changed Forever

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Steam as a platform has remained the dominant force in the PC gaming world for decades, with much of its favor coming from a monumental number of features and built-in quality-of-life features that blow the competition out of the water. Even putting aside the dozens of free games the platform offers on a frequent basis, Steam's current ease of use is easily its best feature.

Despite how ingrained Steam is for PC gamers everywhere, the platform has still faced more than its fair share of criticism over a few outdated functionalities. Thankfully, the platform just received one of the changes that completely changes how you use the app moving forward, which is thanks to two major back-to-back updates that massively overhaul two aspects of the user experience.

After years of complaints by players frustrated by the platform's restrictive gifting functionality, Steam has officially given the process a complete facelift as a part of its first major update, which doesn't even require you to have a Steam account, let alone be digital friends already, in order to gift someone a game.

On top of making the process drastically easier for non-gamers that want to offer digital...

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