Where has all that time gone? It's pretty hard to believe that it was 20 years ago that Steam arrived, and with it that glorious green interface.
  • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    I still remember being skeptical af to the idea that I would give them money and all I got was a digital promise that they would look after my copy of half life and Cs. Years lateds, I’ve lost or destroyed almost all my physical media, but still have that steam account.

    • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      1 year ago

      True, but lord Gabe is aging, and I’m not sure what will happen once he’s gone. If Steam falls to greed, screwing up it’s user base and developer base as so many others before it, then I imagine a wave of pirates of significant proportions will emerge.

  • cron@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can’t really imagine how the PC gaming world would look today without steam.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    Man it was so controversial at the time. I was on USENET gaming groups and there were a few people that worked complaining about Steam DRM into every conversation.

    I found it, it was comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, a poster named John Lewis: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/EiQO3AOHanE/m/_DO3FqVFEWwJ

    I can’t believe USENET is still active and I still recognize some of the names on new posts. Spalls Hurgenson for one.