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Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I remember Steam's launch and understand completely.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I hated Steam for a long time because of Half-life 2.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I mean yeah.

I had to install some program and connect online to PLAY A SINGLE PLAYER GAME? I have the CD already and entered my CD key. Why does it need validation?

This is surely the death of PC gaming.

me in 2005

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh MAN. I forgot about those times, hand typing in a 36 character CD key that was spat out by a dot matrix printer with questionable typeset legibility…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

And importing foreign copies because they sold for cheaper in other countries. I still have a Korean box copy of Call of Duty 2. After buying one, my household needed a second so that I could play at the same time as my sibling, and didn't want to spend a whole $50 for the privilege. They would even send you a copy of the key in email while you waited on the physical box to show up, because the importers knew what they were doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

I also may have had a Malaysian CD key or two in my time 😅

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's if Steam was even able to connect so you could enter the key.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

This nightmare of the server being down on day 1 (and sometimes the whole week) is what trained me to never buy a game on release.

It still happens! To this day!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Same. I think Civ 5 was my gateway game.