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Re:Epistle 3 by philliphaydon on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:27AM (#15097653)
My steam id is 10###, was required to play half life multi-player / counter strike.

Steam came out 1 year 2 months before Half Life 2.

They didn't really 'bribe' people, it was more to do with 1.6 CS only working on steam and patching was done via steam.

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Re:Epistle 3 by rangibaby on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:52AM (#15097744)
Registering any of these boxed games on Steam got you access to all of them: HL, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic. + some Valve made mods: Quake DM, and Ricochet.

That's a pretty good "carrot" to use Steam if you ask me.

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Re:Epistle 3 by philliphaydon on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:31PM (#15103914)
That may have changed after I got steam.

I only had Half Life, and Counter Strike was free when I started playing so I only got HL / CS. I didn't get the others free until HL2 came out...

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Re:Epistle 3 by rangibaby on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:44AM (#15114448)
This is what you should have got with any retail HL CD key:

https://steamdb.info/sub/1/apps/

I can confirm it worked with HL1, CS Retail and Blue Shift keys.

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Re:Epistle 3 by adamrezich on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:47PM (#15101101)
Still waiting for Ricochet VR.
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