Maybe my experience is different from the real data, but I seem to remember people originally hating Steam when it just had Half Life 2 and a handful of other V

Maybe my experience is different from the real data, but I seem to remember people originally hating Steam when it just had Half Life 2 and a handful of other Valve things. It was more or less useless (and sometimes actively harmful) until the store was opened up for 3rd party devs, a critical mass of titles was reached, and most of the early bugs were worked out. Half Life 2 was the first game to require Steam, but I wouldn't really give it much credit for the success of the platform.