What Steam looked like 5 years ago

[Alan]

EIGHT YEARS!!!!!


my god I feel old

[Necuno]

EIGHT YEARS!!!!!


my god I feel old

here have one

[wolvie]

EIGHT YEARS!!!!!


my god I feel old

Yeah, (know that feeling). I look back at the release of Half-Life 2 all those years ago... I can proudly say, I was there

[wheunis]

I wish they would fix some bugs that have been around since 2005...

[hideinlight]

Anyone heard of Desura? It's actually looking quite promising and already fixed some annoyances steam had, for instance you can go offline and the login screen.

[Alan]

Yeah, (know that feeling). I look back at the release of Half-Life 2 all those years ago... I can proudly say, I was there

I was there with the release of the original Half Life *shudder*

[MarcosCOB]

I loved Steam back in 2004 even though I was using dial up .

Good to see I wasn't the only one

[Raven Gold]

As my avv shows I still say it's a load of ass.

The news reading for the last homefront patch says "small" but it tells me I have to download 5 gigs.
And I can't play the game while it's downloading.
And if I want to play a non-steam game online, I have to shut down steam completely.
And if I want to reconnect, I have to leave my PC alone for half an hour.
And if I want to reconnect in ONLINE mode, another half hour.
And than I can't play anything because of the updates.
And than I just stop buying anything and everything using steamworks and decide to use torrents for all of it instead.

[MrG]

Yeah, (know that feeling). I look back at the release of Half-Life 2 all those years ago... I can proudly say, I was there

Eight years is indeed scary. wow! I remember getting Half Life 2 via Kalahari.net and swearing at dial-up for being so slow in decrypting my game files. wow. Feels like yesterday.

[Wolfman]

I love steam. 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. The draconian decryption seems to be a thing of the past now (no gcfs for L4D1/2) and the inclusion of many Indie developers warms my heart. Long live steam.