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Funny title. I have vivid memories of one of my buddies complaining endlessly about Steam as it replaced WON for CS 1.6 server listings around two decades ago.
by alexjplant 3y ago
Funny title. I have vivid memories of one of my buddies complaining endlessly about Steam as it replaced WON for CS 1.6 server listings around two decades ago. I loved it and thought that the online game store model was the future. I don't really game anymore but it seems I was wrong only insofar as I had no idea how huge it would end up being.
- doctorwho42 3y agoIn his defense, in game server browsers were great back then. Steam, if I recall correctly, would require you to close the game every time you wanted to join a new server. And game updates and downloads took so God damn long in the first year or so, compared to just downloading them yourself from one of a number of websites. There were memes about how bad it was. Took them like 2 years to sort it all out to get at least parity with download speeds, or maybe that was just because they eventually sunsetted the old systems for all of their games forcing you into the steam ecosystem.