What Steam looked like 5 years ago

[hideinlight]

Just the credit card requirement that annoys me still, wish you could buy credits or something with a normal bank transfer. It's always a bother when I want to buy a game on steam.

[Wolfman]

Just the credit card requirement that annoys me still, wish you could buy credits or something with a normal bank transfer. It's always a bother when I want to buy a game on steam.

Get an FNB account with linked paypal account. Any FNB savings account should work. Then you can use that to top up you paypal and then put $$$ in your steam wallet.

[virus786]

i like steam, a pity i have a 384 line so its a no go for me, but soon i will make use of it, soon!

[jasong]

My friend has been downloading from Steam on his 384k line at around 45kbps...... He's doing TDU2 now which is around 15gb.

[Prometheus]

The proliferation of cheaper bandwidth in South Africa along with the now famous Steam specials have established it as a gaming giant even in South Africa.

[moomoo]

steam when it began was so bad, with our limited bandwidth, but i must admit that done a great job and i really enjoyed there december specials. Well done to steam for thinking ahead.

[Reytla]

Steam definitely was ugly and a pain in the butt back in the day. I stopped playing CS:S because it really was such a hassle to get it to work back in the day. It's definitely matured into a very useful tool today!

[HoboMincer]

It may have been ugly but at least it didn't randomly delete your game files back then. I have reinstalled Portal2 about 6 times since buying it because it simply deletes my files all the time. It may be my lack of decent internet but really I don't think I'll ever get around to downloading L4D1 or L4D2 again cuz I don't have them on disc or anything and it randomly decided to delete the game files before I knew that backing them up was a very good idea...

[WingNut]

Haha, yeah I remember installing HL2 for the first time and going WTF at this POS software that Valve wanted to install on my machine. Plus the 30MB+ worth of launch day patches was NOT fun to download on dial-up!
But Steam is pretty awesome since they updated it with the new look, and I have a metric crapload of games bought on Steam now.

[CrouxL]

Steam was the beginning of the end of old style/home LAN games...
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