• @boaratio
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    1122 days ago

    I am an avid steam user today, but I’m still bitter about valve requiring you to connect to steam back when Half Life 2 came out to “decrypt” the install from CD. I bought it launch day and couldn’t actually play it for 2 days because steam was essentially DDOS’d

    • @[email protected]
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      322 days ago

      I remember when they shut down the WON servers and forced me to migrate to steam. I could have had a 4 or 5 digit steam account number if not for resisting the migration.

      R.I.P. counter strike 1.5.

      • @docoptix
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        422 days ago

        To be fair, Steam was terrible on launch. IIRC the friend system didn’t work at all for months.