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repiv posted:i will click on it but keep shaking my head the whole time it's playing so people don't think i agree with being canadian lmao
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theultimo posted:CS 1.6 beta players is what pre October 2003 steam accounts were made for Mine is from first half of September 2003 and I despised CS all my life.
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Dec 29, 2023 20:49
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My Steam account is as old as my friend gifting me a "Blue Box" code (basically the Orange Box sans HL2 and Episode 1) that I couldn't really use because my PC at the time was an all-in-one Compaq from 2005 with integrated graphics
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Dec 29, 2023 21:13
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Combat Pretzel posted:Wait what now? Maybe you got it at release as an alternative to WON or to simplify HL1 patching ? There was little else at launch.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Wait what now? SlowBloke posted:Maybe you got it at release as an alternative to WON or to simplify HL1 patching ? There was little else at launch. IIRC if you signed up during the beta you got all the Valve Goldsrc games for free since they hadn't implemented payments yet and wanted to make sure people had a library to test with. Edit: maybe you had to put in your existing CD key? Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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Dec 29, 2023 23:06
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Very first entry in my activations. Says complementary, too. Whatever that means.
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I think there was a period very early on where they gave you all the Valve games free for making a Steam account. I had one of those, but forgot the login for it and made my current one years later.
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Dec 30, 2023 01:08
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Got it from a video card? That's where I got mine. I actually lost access to my account, and got it back by providing them with the activation code for that.
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Dec 30, 2023 01:09
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IIRC at public access all there was was HL1 and various free mods. I don't think OpFor and BlueShift came along until later. So an HL1 CD key inherently got you everything there was on the platform.
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Dec 30, 2023 01:52
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the library was so bare early on that it showed every product you could play in the library, including free ones like demos, so when they added popcaps library everyone got mad because they suddenly had 30 casual game demos clogging up their games list
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Dec 30, 2023 11:15
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repiv posted:the library was so bare early on that it showed every product you could play in the library, including free ones like demos, so when they added popcaps library everyone got mad because they suddenly had 30 casual game demos clogging up their games list This seems like such a quaint problem.  I'm never going to play most of these games, so many of them were humble bundle chaff.
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Dec 30, 2023 12:54
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I'm a little over 20 yrs myself
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Veotax posted:I think there was a period very early on where they gave you all the Valve games free for making a Steam account. I had one of those, but forgot the login for it and made my current one years later. During the Steam Beta, you also had access to the CS1.6 beta as well without needing a CD key or anything. I got some of my elementary schoolmates hooked on CS when I shared that information.
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jisforjosh posted:My Steam account is from September 16, 2003 older than my SA Account, primarily using it for Counter-Strik 1.6 and Day of Defeat 1.3 (retail). Christ, you're an awld bugger. quote:Member since 12 September, 2003.
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Dec 30, 2023 18:16
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I thought my steam library with 150~ games was a lot, holy moly
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chaleski posted:I thought my steam library with 150~ games was a lot, holy moly I stopped short of 800, i think i have completed less than 10% of my owned.
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Dec 30, 2023 19:32
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I think my account is from like 2004 I can’t see it on the app though  Found it 
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Dec 30, 2023 19:42
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I've just been a member since June of 2005. I thought it was earlier, but I unno, maybe I just didn't actually get Steam until Half-Life 2.
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Dec 30, 2023 19:54
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2004 is so far away. It's sad.  May 15th - who knows what the hell for.
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Dec 30, 2023 20:05
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I’m a 14 sep 2003 steam person. There must have been a reason to do it exactly at that time. IIRC it was to preorder HL2, maybe?
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emdash posted:I’m a 14 sep 2003 steam person. There must have been a reason to do it exactly at that time. IIRC it was to preorder HL2, maybe? Yah same day too, must have been some reason like that
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Steam launched on Sept 12, 2003 and by all accounts the servers were completely hosed for days afterwards, so I imagine anyone who created an account during that time period just made their account at the first available opportunity. HL2 was supposed to come out on Sept 30, 2003 so I guess it was to get ready for that.
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Dec 31, 2023 00:30
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HL2 let you preload as well if you'd reordered so for me personally signing up two weeks early was to give me enough time with 2004 Internet speeds to download it
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Fil5000 posted:HL2 let you preload as well if you'd reordered so for me personally signing up two weeks early was to give me enough time with 2004 Internet speeds to download it i'm assuming steam have also tried to get developers to do it to save money on egress, but guess it didn't work out
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Dec 31, 2023 14:13
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kliras posted:it's crazy that i still can't choose to only download the singleplayer campaign for a game like doom and not get all the multiplayer nonsense Steam hasn't really, but Sony and Microsoft have tried it to varying degrees of success.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:24
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You've been able to download the Call Of Duty multiplayer solo for a while, and this year the campaign was a preorder bonus which should tell you how important it is to Activision. A few games on Switch will also have the multiplayer as an optional download. The physical release of Doom 2016 just had the campaign on the cart.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:48
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I just checked and apparently I signed up for steam 5th of January 2004. I feel like such a johnny come lately.
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Fil5000 posted:HL2 let you preload as well if you'd reordered so for me personally signing up two weeks early was to give me enough time with 2004 Internet speeds to download it I remember it taking hours just to successfully download the unlock key. Those servers must have been positively slammed.
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HL2 is currently in the Steam sale for £0.85 and I'd be interested to see if anybody has purchased it as the entire franchise pre-Alyx feels like it is shovelware at this point.
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Theophany posted:the entire franchise pre-Alyx feels like it is shovelware at this point. 
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Theophany posted:HL2 is currently in the Steam sale for £0.85 and I'd be interested to see if anybody has purchased it as the entire franchise pre-Alyx feels like it is shovelware at this point. It's cheap because everyone already owns it because it's arguably the best video game of all time.
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I don't know about best of all time - I'd argue that it has been surpassed at what it does well by other, more modern games. But that doesn't make it a bad game, any more than the existence of more modern boomer shooters makes Doom 2 poo poo.
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yeah id say the halflifes were products of their time, i have a hard time imagining zoomers playing them now and being particularly impressed portal is much more timeless
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HL2 kind of bored me at the time (and relatively recently when I tried to play it) because of all the long linear traversal sections. Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt are by far the highlights of the game and they are the most insular and “traditional” parts design-wise. The unskippable “cutscenes” are also excrutiating.
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it's funny looking back at how the first person cutscenes were lauded at the time but eventually we all got sick of it and Doom 2016 was criticized for doing exactly the same thing
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Cyrano4747 posted:I don't know about best of all time - I'd argue that it has been surpassed at what it does well by other, more modern games. But that doesn't make it a bad game, any more than the existence of more modern boomer shooters makes Doom 2 poo poo. Doom 2 is poo poo because Doom 1 is better in every way
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repiv posted:it's funny looking back at how the first person cutscenes were lauded at the time but eventually we all got sick of it and Doom 2016 was criticized for doing exactly the same thing Once the tech had advanced to the point where we could, people started to ask whether we should
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HL2 was the big last gasp of the pre-Halo pc Fps design ethos. Looking back at it, it very much seems like an engine showcase, just that except for modders, most devs chose unreal instead.
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modders only went with source because it was available to them, unreal was still inaccessible to mere mortals at that time as soon as unreal/unity overhauled their licensing to let people start using it for free it was over for 3rd party use of valves engines
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