Why did people start using this?
Why was there no pushback?
Are we moronic?
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Why did people start using this? Why was there no pushback? Are we retarded?
Why did people start using this?
Why was there no pushback?
Are we moronic?
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because people wanted to play cs 1.6. that's literally it.
You didn't need steam to play cs1.6, zoom zoom.
that was 1.5, zoom zoom
Why wouldn't we? its good and easy to use, no matter what you say, as a kid being able to go to the grocery store and buying a steam gift card will always make people prefer it over waiting till you get a credit card to buy games online
wtf i love epic games store now!
no moron stores at all suck ass
there shouldn't be stores
it's not one store vs another store
NO STORE you daft frick
Oh, you're a seething thirdie. Got it.
if no store where do you buy services then
>Why did people start using this
Because it's convenient as hell. Having all your games in a neat place that doesn't take up space in your house, doesn't rely on a physical disc that could get damaged, doesn't take forever to install, and it just works.
>Why was there no pushback
There WAS pushback. Steam didn't get popular until years after it was released.
Even myself, I didn't make a Steam account until almost 2 years after it was released because I thought for sure it was going to fail within a year.
Valve has fought tooth and nail to get to where it is, and it belongs there.
There was tons of pushback. I made my Steam account only in 2009 and I had been playing PC games the whole time it was around.
This. It's not like I wanted to use Steam. However, the prices were great and it was convenient. I distinctly remember despising the idea of having to use extra software to launch games I bought. Having said all this, Steam has added value to gaming on computer that I never thought would be possible. I can basically play any game I want on Linux with a controller now. That's amazing. I used to have to fiddle and frick around with shit for days or even weeks to get it to work. Doom is close to the only game I play on computer without Steam now. There is simply too much value and convenience to using it.
Why did people start using these?
Why was there no pushback?
Are we moronic?
(You)
Throw it in the pile with the rest of them.
orange box was the greatest official release value for money of all time, and the games were NEW.
What do you suggest? Back to 4 Blu Ray per game sent out like the old days?
>Why was there no pushback?
Why don't you know history?
>Are we moronic?
Speak for yourself, gay.
Who fricking draws this garbage? I swear even the doodlegay in the Senran Kagura threads isn't this pathetic.
before team fortress 2 became free to play, steam's popularity was a fraction of today.
that's literally it basically
stuff like half life 2 helped before, but you had to PAY for that. and people are broke
>TFW Gabe gave you HL1 for free
Haha suck it zoomers.
The alternative got worse, simple as. Physical games were starting to implement forced online activation with a limited number of allowed activations, so not only did you have to acquire the physical copy itself, you still needed internet to play the game and could only install it so many times before the disc became a coaster. Steam was a convenience.
Steam pioneered that.
Because people wanted to play valve games and...
Gabe was an actual very nice guy and our ally back then.
When did Gabe became our enemy?
right around 2009-2010 when he dropped his ideals of "piracy is a service problem" and instead joined the big corpos in activelly fighting piracy.
>Why was there no pushback?
But there was pushback, you underaged homosexual.
Steam was despised for years.
>Why was there no pushback?
fricking zoomers
humble bundle. needed steam to redeem some of the publisher titles. at $1 minimum this meant a marginal rental price of a few cents per game so i made a steam account. they still haven't gotten any of my money though, i put $0 into the steam store.
If you wanted the new Half-Life 2 game, you didn't have a choice.
>before steam
>real popular game comes out
>have to pre order
>have to then show up 12hrs in advance to stand in a line outside in the freezing cold with a bunch of nerds to then get pre order
Was fun to get once or twice but frick that ill take my 5sec buy & download pls mr gabe.
>tfw 2007
>standing outside in the fricking cold for my copy of burning crusade
>all i could think was
>"if this shit was on steam i'd be playing it right now"
Blizzard are a bunch of fricking Black folk.
>have to then show up 12hrs in advance to stand in a line outside in the freezing cold with a bunch of nerds to then get pre order
soul
>ill take my 5sec buy & download pls mr gabe let me suck you off *slurp gulp*
soulless
See back in the day there wasnt no lootboxes or heartbeat sensor or prestige 2 tactical nuke tiger skin nonsense. People got a counterstrike or dod or tf2 server and wed just kill each other all day long and have a good time. Valve WAS PC gaming and then they dropped Portal and HL2 and caught on with console babbies and got everyone excited with episode 1 and 2. Steam dangled HL3 in front of people for years and then Telltale Walking Dead, Hotline Miami, Bastion, etc. Etc. Drip feed of a few good indie games and LE HECKIN STEAM SUMMER SALE!!!!11 And suddenly we all of us was livin on the plantation workin foe what wasnt even our own, aint wasnt nothin they put in our hands was belonged to us, but we thought sho, they might just gone and make us a Half Life 3 still. Well, you can look and see now that aint happen.
Would you like some grape soda?
oldgay here
people hated this shit when it was forced on them, you had to install steam to play cs 1.6 or half-life 2
but like every new thing there's a group of people that adopt it and call you a moron for wanting to stick to old things, very similar to when a new version of windows comes out and it fricking sucks ass but there's a giant group of homosexuals that say they love it and its WAY better than the previous one
This. Also what really propelled Steam into becoming popular were the massive discounts from the first few Steam sales. It was not uncommon to see a 90% flash discount on a AAA game that was recently released. It's really what made the difference.
Ironic because now Steam sales are absolute shit, you have moronic indie devs selling their shit games for $25, and during a Steam sale only giving a 20% discount.
>Flash sales
It feels like they weren't that long ago but this absolutely was a major reason. Imagine being able to pick up a full price game for $10 if you were awake at midnight on a Tuesday for the Flash sale.
Remember that before steam there was far more agressive DRM such as secuROM and starforce. Also more people need to read about spore's DRM.
Because manually updating your games is a pain in the ass.
>Why did people start using this?
It was packaged in with Half-Life 2, which was one of the most successful games of the 2005-2006 year. Ever since it has been packaged in with just about every Valve project over the years. TF2, Left 4 Dead etc
if you don't have the green 20 year badge, your opinion literally doesn't matter
im 6mo away dammit, i matter to me
I said it once before and ill say it again, you can hate steam & you can hate gabe but that motherfricker is the guardian at the gate. Once passes, whoever takes over is going to turn steam into a subscription model and every motherfricker will follow suit, shit will happen over night and there won't be a goddamn thing anybody can do about it so enjoy it while it lasts. Hell the push back thats actually happening right now that actually matters is most likely from the other platforms wanting that subscription here and now.
He made himself the guardian. I do wish he'd fricking go on a diet at least.
>Why did people start using this?
It was(and still is) the only way to play source titles like Half-life 2; which if you weren't around for or don't remember, was one of the most hyped video games ever.
>Why was there no pushback?
There was? Like, a lot. People were used to CD keys, but this was one of the first times mass audiences were required to make an account and have a separate program just to play a game. Naturally, people weren't happy about these new hoops to jump through. But as time passed, the convenience of Steam became apparent. Your library was always accessible so long as you had internet, and there weren't any weird install limitations(Looking at you, Spore).
With many steam-like services popping up at the time(gametap, for one), it was easy to think Steam would be abandoned. But it wasn't, instead we got incremental updates that pushed it to what we have today.
It's one of the closest things we'll get to digital "ownership", in my opinion. And that's why it's still flourishing.
Honestly, I'm surprised people are still calling foul at valve when Nintendo does the exact same thing, but you can only use what you buy for a given platform(i.e; you buy a 3ds game, you -only- get to play it on 3ds, no wii, no wiiu, no switch, and DEFINITELY no competing platform). Fricking imagine if the Android/Iphone marketplaces were like Nintendo. People would lose their fricking minds, but Nintendo gets a free pass, like always.
>It was(and still is) the only way to play source titles like Half-life 2
Aren't valve's games also available on GOG?
Valve games are ONLY available on Steam or Physical copies.
T-that's not true I do have Half Life on my GOG accoun-
>checks GOG account
>Half Life is not there
wtf... did I jump dimensions?
That was a bit vague on my wording. There are indeed source engine games like VTMB on GoG, but the only way to get Valve source titles without piracy is Steam.
There was pushback. Its simply steam become better and more convenient as time went on till most stopped b***hing. Honestly though you should go grab a bunch of old pc game cds install a old copy of windows xp and try the classic pc gaming experience for yourself and I think after a while you will get why steam eventually became popular
enough with the damn psyop
I'm sorry your economy is shit and you can't afford video games any more, but please stop with the constant spam. It's pushing my furry porn threads off the catalogue.
>Why was there no pushback?
Zoomer detected. Everyone HATED Steam in the beginning.
There was pushback
I ask myself this every day. The damage Valve has done to PC gaming (and quite possibly gaming) has been irreparable. Nothing will happen when it does, aside from a brief moment of closure on my head.
For me it was
>Around 13 years ago
>Play Xcom
>buy it because I wanted to play some online
>was pretty kewl
>GPU burns down
>all I am left with is a shitty laptop
>Frick it, try to run it
>it works, it's actually more or less playable on mins
>my save files are intact
>proceed to play Xcom for months
>happy
It was just so fricking convenient and cool because I technically replayed Persona 3 like 5 times but beat it once because something would always go wrong and whenever it did I had to restart game from scratch, so I either had to manually cloud save my every safe file every time or start over. It's actually also ironic because since I stopped pirating my PCs stopped breaking down as frequently.
>Why did people start using this?
It's extremely convenient and had very good sales at the time when it really stared gaining traction
>Why was there no pushback?
The disc-based DRM we had was utter unholy cancer, but you're too young to have used it and too moronic to read about it
>Are we moronic?
Just you
>Just you
If anyone likes Steam or Valve after spending one second in any kind of thought, then you're the moron.
I made my account in 2007, but took me until 2015 to actually start using it
>game I want to play releases only on steam
>buy it and make friends with people ingame
>in order to play other vidya with them I have to share the platform
Basically how it went with most people I imagine. By now I accept its convenient and I dont want to pirate nearly as much as I used to and have to re-download each release/each time DLC comes out etc etc because I now have more than enough money.
Brownoids only exist to serve companies (created by whites)
>Why did people start using this?
Because Half-Life 2 was the biggest game realise and steam was the only way to play it.
It was required to activate half life 2 during its launch. That's it. That's the reason.
PC gaming was literally dying. Stores were slowly removing PC games from the shelves all while charging 60 for shovelware. Steam saved PC gaming, zoomie. Everyone hated how it used so much of the system's resources in the beginning but that hasn't been a problem in a long time.