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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by dcdc123 on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:49AM (#37612789)
Steam came out almost 5 years before GFWL.
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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by dspillett on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:17AM (#37613160)
Giving GFWL less excuse for being as bad as it was. They'd witnessed Steam's early problems, yet repeated them (and added more besides).
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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by blibble on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:51AM (#37612814)
probably about the same time they managed to get the Friends service to work
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