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Steam hits 37 million concurrent users today (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am an avid steam user today, but I'm still bitter about valve requiring you to connect to steam back when Half Life 2 came out to "decrypt" the install from CD. I bought it launch day and couldn't actually play it for 2 days because steam was essentially DDOS'd

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I remember when they shut down the WON servers and forced me to migrate to steam. I could have had a 4 or 5 digit steam account number if not for resisting the migration.

R.I.P. counter strike 1.5.

[–] docoptix@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

To be fair, Steam was terrible on launch. IIRC the friend system didn't work at all for months.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

You'll still have the email as username which newer users don't have.