• gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I was also using it then and most people hated it at the time. People generally saw it as useless DRM they had to install to play the games they had already paid for. The biggest complaint was needing to install it and register Counter-Strike to get the 1.6 update.

    This gif comes to mind:

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      2 months ago

      many youngns here are missing this bit of context.

      it was also very prone to endless issues at the time.

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        2 months ago

        Absolutely it was. It’s definitely had its growing pains, but I was in a generally advantageous place where most of the issues hadn’t caused problems for me. In this case, I was sorta golden path user.

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      2 months ago

      I joined Steam when I bought Portal on disk from a store and couldn’t play it without signing up for Steam and installing Steam just to play my game.