Personally I think that with the last big Steam update, they jumped into electronic communication headfirst with a swan dive. Originally Steam was a program mainly used for finding and connecting to games. Over it’s existance and especially more recently Steam has strived to make communication between it’s clients(bad word choice), more a priority. There is always the personal message to any gamer whose tag you know, and now you can also use voicechat to talk realtime. The community aspect has also been broadened with the new “clubs” and “groups” you can join and belong to through steam. Recieve messages about upcoming events or just use the group to interact with other members. In my opinion, it has made communicating and gaming with friends/associates much simpler and more interactive than the conventional ways of gamespy or others.
— use what you need feel free to :edit:
As for this website being directly connected to Steam, I don’t agree with that at all. This site was created and is used for gamers to communicate and interact. Much like how steam is used, but this isn’t based off steam or used by steam, or really connected to steam at all. I remember CS before steam quite well, Steam is very new still, comparatively. But yeah, good topic and I wish you the best with it. And please edit any grammatical errors you find before posting this to a crowd. I’ve been working over 100 hours a week for the past 3 weeks so I’m at the end of the wits here and just trying to be a good gamer.