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I think it probably had more to do with having a store that worked well, games that had good prices, and most importantly: Good customer service. The only other service that comes close is GOG, and that's mostly because of their DRM free policy.
Even then the majority of random games on steam are drm free out of the box nowadays. Mostly just the big triple A studios that have mandatory drm.
Yeah, and a lot of them ditch the DRM after a while. Steam is it's own DRM anyhow, it's one I don't terribly mind because it consistently works without fucking up my gaming experience (even augmenting it at times - which no other stores do).