4. You Have More Games On Steam Than You Do Facebook Friends
Video games are cheap, people are complicated. Video games don't post dumb memes about political issues that shouldn't be reduced to two sentences and a funny picture. Video games don't passive-aggressively call people out, and normally their grammar is a lot better too. While you may never get around to playing Final Fantasy VIII again, the fact that your Steam back catalog will always be there waiting is comforting. These games, unlike most people, will always be there for you, content to wait idly until you decide you want to spend time with them. And at the risk of sounding like a total shut-in, sometimes a great game can feel a bit like a good friend, too. Maybe you've invested hundreds of hours in World of Warcraft, put it down for a year, and came back. Like a best friend it's there, enveloping you in aura of familiarity like you never left as the game patches itself up. Maybe you make a point to play XCOM once a year because of how important that game was to your development into an adult when it comes to critical thinking and the role of the military in our world. And maybe, just maybe, you miss someone in these games. A dose of GLADOS's snark, or Trevor's ribald personality could be just the thing to get through a tough week. Much like the TV show Cheers, your Steam back catalog is a place where everyone knows your name... sort of. You know why you bought these titles and what to expect, and you can rest assured that if things don't go exactly as planned, it won't cost you a friendship or mutual respect, just a couple of bucks, a little time, perhaps some fiddling with settings, and as far as relationships go that's about as drama free as it gets.
