• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    How did this work? The way I remember it HL2 was pretty much the first game on Steam. I remember it being really controversial because you had to install Steam to play the game even offline and people didn’t like that. It was like the original Rockstar Social Club.

    How did the survey exist early enough for HL2 to be developed around it?

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      My steam account is from September 2003. A couple weeks after its launch

      CS 1.6 and generally HL1 and mods were the first (replacing WON for multiplayer matching)

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      5 months ago

      I remember installing CounterStrike before Steam, and then an update forcing Steam install, it was around the years Warcraft 3 came out. I’m sure it was a thing before HL2