Roi Danton
Sentinel
At least we agree on that
Out of curiosity - why don't you use the .co.uk site? They sell to Germany as well - and it should be much cheaper for you.
I mostly buy my games boxed from Amazon.co.uk or when they are on sale from the various digital distribution sites. The reason I use steam that much is because they have good sales, a lot of indie titles (which I like buying in steam because I like the client) and because some games come with steamworks DRM (Fallout New Vegas, Shogun 2, etc).
I don't really feel any need to defend steam itself, the platform has a lot of problems. But it is in my opinion the best client based DD shop. And I just like the fact that I can install steam on any pc I like, download my games and even play the same save games anywhere in the world without any hassle and that I have a lot of games in one simple client where I can download them without any problems. I had hope that Impulse would become a similar good service, but the client sucks. And let's not even talk about that stupid GfW Marketplace (I recently downloaded the AoE Online Beta and dear god, what a nightmare).