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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:54PM (#37618842)
Yes. DVD was pointless. Online steam was required. Worse still it happened to be down that day. The worst possible first impression.
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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by gabereiser on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:09PM (#37620034)
Ultima Online launch day had a similar feel. Servers melted under the load of 1500 (maybe 2,000). After a weekend of reading the booklet and studying the map, I was able to login. Only to find that cave on the map I wanted to explore was between me and a dozen Ogres and Ratmen. Good times.

Steam was the first “online required” for offline play I think. Others like EA and Ubisoft followed shortly after but didn’t have their own stores until many many years later.

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