Steam good, Steam bad
So you prefer Steam, but still think it's a piece of crap. Please elaborate on what makes it a piece of crap. I'm really curious as I have yet to download Steam onto my Mac. What would I like about Steam, and what things about Steam would I not like? An honest question.
I'm not ScottishCaptain, but I'm a Steam user who doesn't like it much. I use it for the advantages:
1. Access to wide array of games;
2. Periodic sales allow accumulation of a great library of games at crazy-good prices;
3. Community of other users and in-Steam friends.
The disadvantages (or minor annoyances) are:
1. Extremely poor, clunky, and slow customer support. I could go into greater detail if you want (in the meantime look up Kafkaesque);
2. Steam controls your access to games. If Steam won't let you log in you're screwed until they give you your access back;
3. The Steam client uses non-standard UI elements. For example scroll bars in Steam act differently than real scroll bars.
4. Steam is designed like a bunch of web pages puked up in no particular order or thought to how to navigate to what you want.