Mwa@thelemmy.club to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-229 days agoSteam competitors be like. [Extended?]thelemmy.clubimagemessage-square250fedilinkarrow-up1995file-text
arrow-up1995imageSteam competitors be like. [Extended?]thelemmy.clubMwa@thelemmy.club to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-229 days agomessage-square250fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·29 days agoI didn’t realize we were still in the early days of a platform that launched in 2003.
minus-squaremabeledo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 days agoI’m old enough to remember the uproar because Half Life 2 had Steam as a hard requirement to be activated, even for physical copies. Steam was born as Valve’s DRM.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 days agoAs am I. I admittedly didn’t see the point of it at the time.
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I didn’t realize we were still in the early days of a platform that launched in 2003.
I’m old enough to remember the uproar because Half Life 2 had Steam as a hard requirement to be activated, even for physical copies.
Steam was born as Valve’s DRM.
As am I. I admittedly didn’t see the point of it at the time.