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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by waymon on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:59AM (#37612923)
> steam was terrible when it came out

Do people really think this? I remember applying updates to CS before steam and it was awful. Steam streamlined that and gave us a much needed friends list. I never ever thought steam the application was a bad.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by blibble on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:02AM (#37612967)
the friends list didn't work for 5 or so years and neither did the download limiter (not a big deal these days, but on dialup... yeah)

the UI was exceptionally slow and it took forever to do anything

this wasn't a meme for no reason: https://imgur.com/a/bpGpe0o

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by waymon on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:37AM (#37613440)
ha, im just forgetful. thank you.
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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by jonatron on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:53AM (#37613631)
I spent ages looking for that meme recently, thanks!
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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by wredue on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:44PM (#37614287)
Internet and DRM back then were absolutely shit. So a company coming along and embracing DRM in a consumer friendly way during a time where DRM was rightfully a major topic of contention put a lot of negativity out there.

Few people then knew that it was way ahead of its time, and even fewer knew how much of a fight valve would be putting up against capitalist regimes trying to kill gaming.

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