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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:15:48 JST Ars Technica

   How Half-Life 2 helped sell Steam to a skeptical PC gaming market
   Back in 2004, many players saw Valve’s new platform as nothing but “fancy DRM.”
   https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/11/how-half-life-2-helped-sell-steam-to-a-skeptical-pc-gaming-market/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Simon (hejsimon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 23:23:07 JST Simon

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     @arstechnica yeah, back in the days Steam was complete trash. Now it's just a monopoly.

   • vksxypants (vksxypants@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 00:45:25 JST vksxypants

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     @arstechnica I remember when CS1.6 was released with Steam we used to call it "steaming pile of crap", and there were pics with smell lines coming from the icon, etc. I still can't see "Steam" without thinking "Steaming pile of crap".