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Steam hits 37 million concurrent users today (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was also using it then and most people hated it at the time. People generally saw it as useless DRM they had to install to play the games they had already paid for. The biggest complaint was needing to install it and register Counter-Strike to get the 1.6 update.

This gif comes to mind:

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

many youngns here are missing this bit of context.

it was also very prone to endless issues at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Absolutely it was. It’s definitely had its growing pains, but I was in a generally advantageous place where most of the issues hadn’t caused problems for me. In this case, I was sorta golden path user.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I joined Steam when I bought Portal on disk from a store and couldn't play it without signing up for Steam and installing Steam just to play my game.