I remember having to migrate from the WON system [0] run by Sierra (Half Life 1 publisher) to Steam, as Valve patched their games. This affected all the multipl

I remember having to migrate from the WON system [0] run by Sierra (Half Life 1 publisher) to Steam, as Valve patched their games. This affected all the multiplayer mods, like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress. At the time it seemed like an arbitrary forced-adoption strategy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network