I signed up when I bought half life 2. Ever since then I've bought hundreds of games on sale. I'm glad its grown into the great platform that it is but I wonder how long it'll be before something else revolutionizes everything.
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;42701044]If only they didn't force us to download directx and visual studio every time we download a game. I cleaned out 5gb yesterday deleting all that shit[/QUOTE]
There's a reason this happens, I know Valve are dumb sometimes but not /that/ dumb.
It's due to the way DirectX and VS redistributables work. Game executables are compiled and linked against a specific version of them, and there are new redists updates from Microsoft pretty frequently, so...
[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;42710822]I signed up when I bought half life 2. Ever since then I've bought hundreds of games on sale. I'm glad its grown into the great platform that it is but I wonder how long it'll be before something else revolutionizes everything.[/QUOTE]
I had a steam account eons ago when I actually bought the Orange Box as a gift. Sadly I lost my account details.
For me, Steam was actually the first time I actually considered buying games legitimately as opposed to pirating them as I used to do in the past - in India buying legit games used to be horrendously expensive. The sales just make any internal justification to pirate a game a moot point.
Looking at my small little games library now, it actually makes me proud that I did the right thing and now I just buy them without even thinking to pirate them if thry go on a sale which makes it a good price. It would be interesting to see if any such service can even exist that can outdo Steam at their
sales - it would take a pretty strong breach of customer trust to make that happen, which for now, to me atleast, seems unlikely.
to people who complain about the slow client:
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1287055&p=41369955&viewfull=1#post41369955[/url]
I remember the old Steam client. The annoying sound of the chat would always wake me up in the middle of the night. When the new client came up I was so surprised. I literally thought I was never going to get used to it, but it's been so long that the old Steam client would be odd for me to use again.
Man, it's been forever. I used to be able to say "Steam" in school, and no one would know a damn thing about what I was saying. If I were to say it now, there's always at least one person in each of my classes that knows it. It's impressive how far It's come.
I feel old now.
[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42710362]My first steam game was Portal 2[/QUOTE]
Mine was Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, it came free with my old Nvidia graphics card years ago (2008)
[QUOTE=robotman5;42711540]Mine was Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, it came free with my old Nvidia graphics card years ago (2008)[/QUOTE]
Same here. HL2DM was my first steam game also. Got me hooked to steam.
I joined steam in 2006 to play counter strike and then didn't touch it until early 2011 again.
It's a good program
[QUOTE=Xenomoose;42703313]Steam should hold a sale. All dinosaur-related titles 50-75% off![/QUOTE]
If only any of them were good.
[QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;42701926]7 years ago I couldn't get HL1 cause of Steam (specifically, I only had an awful dial-up) and through my little knowledge I thought it's a shitty DRM program.
Now look at my fabulous 100+ games library.[/QUOTE]
100 games is nothing, try to beat my 200 games
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