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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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

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