>>11918172
Updates being taken care of by Steam instead of having to hunt down a shitty mirror with minute long countdown queue was nice. Having a friend list, being able to quickly join a join, and being able to auto queue a full server was nice, however friend list was infamously known for never fucking working. Fun fact, you can play chess and shit with a friend. Steam was "acceptable" for CS 1.6, any goldsrc cd key you redeem would give you basically the whole back catalog, but Steam also broke Half-Life mods. Steam was straight up unacceptable for Half-Life 2 because shit didn't work.