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Steam was released before HL2. I remember playing HL1-based games on it.
by m0th87 9y ago
Steam was released before HL2. I remember playing HL1-based games on it.
- rangibaby 9y agoThe first "game" on Steam 1.0 was a dedicated server app released immediately before CS1.6. The people with the lowest SteamIDs are server operators. Valve bribed people to use Steam by making all HL1 games available with any HL1 engine game CD key.
- philliphaydon 9y agoMy steam id is 10###, was required to play half life multi-player / counter strike. Steam came out 1 year 2 months before Half Life 2. They didn't really 'bribe' people, it was more to do with 1.6 CS only working on steam and patching was done via steam.
- rangibaby 9y agoRegistering any of these boxed games on Steam got you access to all of them: HL, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic. + some Valve made mods: Quake DM, and Ricochet. That's a pretty good "carrot" to use Steam if you ask me.
- adamrezich 9y agoStill waiting for Ricochet VR.
- philliphaydon 9y agoThat may have changed after I got steam. I only had Half Life, and Counter Strike was free when I started playing so I only got HL / CS. I didn't get the others free until HL2 came out...
- rangibaby 9y agoThis is what you should have got with any retail HL CD key: https://steamdb.info/sub/1/apps/ https://steamdb.info/sub/1/apps/ I can confirm it worked with HL1, CS Retail and Blue Shift keys.
- TheRealDunkirk 9y agoWell, my point was that HL2 was a Steam-exclusive.