Die Essenz:
"In the States, shelf space for PC games is dwindling from a bad place to a terrible place. [And then] you go to Germany, PC games are at the checkout counter at the freaking drug store. Literally."
"We basically had our feature list that we wanted. We wanted auto-updating, we wanted better anti-piracy, better anti-cheat, and selling the games over the wire was something we came up with later." (Steam)
"Orange Box sold really, really well on the PC and in some places it sold really well at retail and in some places it sold really, really well on Steam. And in some places it did pretty good in each one and together that was great. Orange Box is a success and Steam is selling over 300 games to 15 million accounts. So we feel like the company has never been stronger."