Years ago I lost access to my steam account that I had since HL2 came out. I was able to get back in by emailing Valve support the account name, and photos of

Years ago I lost access to my steam account that I had since HL2 came out. I was able to get back in by emailing Valve support the account name, and photos of the box and serial key HL2 came in. I was genuinely impressed - up to that point I had absolutely despised Steam as DRM shovelware that almost never worked right due to constantly downloading updates over my shitty internet connection.