The value of your steam account

[Blazzok]

Yeah, I remember, ppl were slightly unhappy with STEAM, so when HL2 rolled around and you could download the magical cache files...ppl were not only sure what to make of it, how it will effect the game but also htf do you download the cache files on our not so impressive ADSL caps back yay.

I signed up the night I got home to install HL2 from my retail edition.

STEAM has turned out pretty well, just needs to keep it going like that....

Yeah I bought HL2 not along after release (it came on 5 CD's). Got home only to find you need this Steam thing to play the game. We didn't have internet at home back in 2004 (my parents only got internet in 2006 I believe, maybe later). So I couldn't play my game. I ended up getting a pirated copy of HL2 some time later so I could actually play the game.

So my initial impression of Steam was not a very good one. I then started using Steam somewhere during my Uni years, but I cannot remember why I actually started using it. Probably some other game that I bought that required you to have Steam.

 

[PsychoFish]

I avoided steam for as long as I could. Eventually just bought the Orange Box and had Steam since then.

 

[GregRedd]

Seems about right.


US Dollar value shows $3366 at the moment = R55 361. Please let Mrs. Redd never, ever find this info!

 

[Weasley]

mine rand and US

 

[Rhymelark]

oh dear

 

[Jan]

As havoc requested, The Ratio: 3.022

Pretty sure my values are also quite inaccurate. There's no way they're taking into account how cheaply I got some of my games on Humble Bundles.

 

[Jan]

Yeah I bought HL2 not along after release (it came on 5 CD's). Got home only to find you need this Steam thing to play the game.

That's when I installed Steam the first time as well. My brother had the foresight to get the Collectors Edition because it shipped the game on a single DVD.

...not a lot of us had ADSL back in the day, I know I was still struggling with dial-up for quite a while. In fact I only got DSL for myself in 2009!

Similar story here. We got ADSL in 2006 or 2007, but for the launch of HL2 I has to struggle with the Telkom R7 Callmore deal (or whatever it cost by then) to get the game activated over dial up.

And it was great when you go to a LAN to play Counter-Strike and then Steam refuses to start in offline mode because your caching token had expired.

Yeah same, but to be fair, most of us were extremely skeptical about Steam when it first came out.

Indeed. Some of us also remain skeptical. After our fearless leader Gaben passes on, or if Valve ever comes under financial pressure, I fully expect a bean counter to analyze the numbers and go "Oh hey, we can save like $X-billion per year if we take these abandoned games off Steam and stop supporting their DRM check-ins. Nuke em."

(Excuse the oversimplification, but you get what I'm driving at.)

 

[Jaco Smit]

F****ng hell, I had no idea

 

[murfle]

I'm almost relieved I don't have the most expensive account here...

 

[oltman]

It feels like I played more games than what is indicated, but then I forgot about all those free keys I can not stop myself from grabbing!

 

[AlienTaker]

Geez there are some big accounts in here holy crap.............

 

[GregRedd]

Geez there are some big accounts in here holy crap.............
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You like round numbers Alien? Level 20, 200 games, 70 not played, 10.0 average playtime...

 

[AlienTaker]

Hahahahahahahahaha Gregg now that you mention it i only saw that now, and i'm the only one so far

 

[Blazzok]

WTS 1x Steam Account

 

[VirtualForce]

I bought the CE as well, but long after release so my initial exposure to Steam was in trying to get the latest updates for the HL platinum collection. When I went to look for the latest updates one day each game had become these 300/400Mb updates with the Steam icon, little did I know that those updates were actually the install for Steam embedded with the cache file required to install the respective game under Steam.

That's when I installed Steam the first time as well. My brother had the foresight to get the Collectors Edition because it shipped the game on a single DVD.

Yeah, it came with a T-Shirt and that art book, all in that big black box. I still have my T-Shirt, well I still have everything.

 

[AlienTaker]

Yeah, it came with a T-Shirt and that art book, all in that big black box. I still have my T-Shirt, well I still have everything.

Mine got lost in one of the moves over the years along with a few other collectors edition games

 

[mottamort]

My Havok-Ratio is 3.38 (ZAR) and 4.40 (USD)





EDIT: This is my Steam "lan" account, I use for free/lan games only...this was quite a shock to me, as I've only ever purchased F1 2012 with it o_0