Thread 715943845

Did you get Half-life 2 Gold for $89.95?

no i bought the cd that had the steam downloader on it

That's a lot of shit for 89 dollarydoos. That hat is probably worth $89 alone nowadays

Why did they make the application blue?

I got it for free during the 20th anniversary, still haven't played it.

>>715943845 (OP)
honestly 50 bucks for hl2 and css back then was a pretty good deal

>>715943845 (OP)
Remember when nintendies tried to gaslight people into believing games were long sold at 90 dollars.

>>715944194
baby puke green became a meme and Steam had to rebrand.
Believe it or not, there was a time when everyone hated Steam

>>715943845 (OP)
i got silver.

i paid ten dollars for the orange box

>>715944404
the black version was the best. fuck the new blue shit.

>>715943845 (OP)
>game + physical merch
times really were better
now you get a digital skin for $50

>>715944404
>Believe it or not, there was a time when everyone hated Steam

yep i remember it. the client was pretty fucking slow and jank, it still is kinda, but at least it looks nicer.

>>715943845 (OP)
Today it would cost $120 and not come with a copy of the game

>>715944464
>>715944404
>>715944194
just download millennium and change the skin to whatever you want btw, steamdb extension is great as well.

>>715943845 (OP)
I remember the first year the big sales started they gave you everything they ever made for something like $100 It included lfd1 and the entire orange box in 2008.

I wonder if there are any anons with their 2003-2004 accounts still active
My brother made an account for me in 2004, I didn't really care until 2010, but by then I had forgotten the password and so did he, and support basically told me to go fuck myself when I asked to recover the account. I think the only game in it were CSS and DoD, but I wish I still had it to flex that 20 year badge

I got the alyx box but i wanted the gordon box

Oh look they have other games too

I bought this.

>>715944747
defcon was released when steam was still green?

>>715943845 (OP)
i bought a stolen ep2 for $2 when it came out. Didnt even have subtitles or localization.

>>715944869
>>715944908
This was the store I remember, the steam UI during this era, and the community profiles was as the kid says "peak soul"

>strategy guide
you didn't beat the game

>>715944747
That fucking headcrab hat icon
I wanna go back /v/ros

2010, the year Steam got blacked

>>715944869
Id games showing up on steam at that time is closer to the original doom launch than it is to today.

>>715946297
mutt's law
sage

>>715944567
I got the 20 year badge last year, got steam with Half Life 2 on release day.

Reminder that even though Codename Gordon doesn't have a page on the store anymore, you can still install it directly by pasting steam://install/92 into an internet browser and opening it with steam.

>>715943845 (OP)
Nah I remember getting Silver. Half-Life Source was pretty cool back then.

>>715943845 (OP)
I bought the orange box one for regular price

>>715944404
Yeah I remember when they forced it on us and I couldn't just launch CS1.6 directly from the .exe anymore. Even now I still don't like having to launch steam to play my games, but it is what it is.

>>715946526
The devs let their domain expire and it got snatched up by some shady internet porn organization, so valve delisted it lol.

My earliest memory of Steam was when Steam itself was so barren that the steampowered.com/news.html page was nothing more than a 1.6 changelog lol.

>>715946526
Thanks, that's cool

>>715943845 (OP)
Damn, thats 159,- in todays money.
Mario kart world is cheap as fuck boy

>>715947131
* kisses you *
you little faggot

>>715946548
HL:S is so broken though...but hey, HL1 with Source features. I wonder if it's ever been fixed up

>>715947451
They delisted HL Source and basically told everyone to play HL1 25th anniversary update.

But there's a mod that fixes HLS

>>715943845 (OP)
>Four games
>All physical
>With merch
Worth £75? Fuck yeah.

>>715946604
Got into pc gayming over a decade ago and I never liked steam for this even for all the amazing sales and convenience it gives. One time internet got cut out and wouldn't launch into offline mode I was mad.

Valve used to make so many games.

Of course not, everyone bought the boxed game and then got home and found out they needed to make a faggy account on a faggy platform to play it.

The first game I bought on Steam was The Orange Box, because it was a good deal. Since then, I've spent barely anything on the platform, maybe 500 bucks over 23 years. Can't believe I spent 50 bucks on L4D, crazy.

>>715944820
Yeah, Introversion was one of the first indie companies on Steam. I remember watching that Darwinia trailer over and over again when I was too poor to afford games.

>>715947785
They still make plenty of games that never see the light of day.

>>715947785
So did a lot of devs, game development just takes too fucking long.

>>715947934
Well I wish they released more of them, even half-baked stuff like DODS that is carried by the community

>>715944567
>here it is
HL2 was my first game, it came bundled with my graphics card, some Nvidia back at the time.

>>715947853
Man, I forgot it was so expensive when it launched. That's probably why I got so sour about L4D2 coming like a year afterwards.

>>715944404
I still hate steam because it's a DRM launcher and it mandates not using exe, just like >>715946604
said

>>715943845 (OP)
HL2 Silver isn't bad

>>715948342
Gold is just Silver with physical merch

>>715943845 (OP)
>$60/90 includes Half-Life: Source
That's highway robbery.

>>715943845 (OP)
i think i got it from orange box

>>715948110
>not the 20 years green edition badge
heh, newfag

>>715948689
time to suicide myself i guess

>>715944908
>>715946001
Same, I got the Id pack on sale.
Crazy that after almost 20 years it is the gift that keeps on giving.
>>715947978
More like executives from other shit industries stepped in not knowing what the fuck to expect and destroyed the industry.
Prior to 2010 developers did whatever suit them the best which was chaotic, this is back when everyone complained about crunch time and deadlines but games certainly got made.

The gaming dev cycle nowadays is a bureaucracy where wheels are constantly spinning, paperwork is constantly coming in and out so some faggot in management gets a sense of control, ultimately all this "planning" is the sole culprit for all the retarded time waste in the industry, this is why indies can outdo AAA games today because you need to fill 7 forms and get 3 signatures from 4 different departments so you can take a piss.

>>715948310
>it mandates not using exe
You can still launch any game not using drms from the exe without even having steam running. I remember doing it for a bunch of games like D:OS2
Not all games on steam use DRMs, they just don't advertise it since this is part of their marketing unlike gog

>>715943845 (OP)
What are cyber cafes like?

>>715944908
>The Movies was on steam
Sucks its no longer there, I loved that game and it's expansion

>>715943845 (OP)
I remember me and my dad picking up HL2 shortly after it came out for 30 eurobucks.
Good times.

>>715949435
Depressing for the most part, even at the peak of their popularity. Most people only played WOW or CS. I think the better ones had consoles for Gears of War and Halo 3. In Asia they were the center of all scum and villainy.
Gold farmers, dupers, cheaters and ERPers.

The gaming ones faded faster than arcades.
The few alive ones are essentially paper supply stores with incredibly old and unreliable computers not suitable for anything really. They are worse than business centers at any hotel, you can tell most of them predate standards and practices as well as basic online hygiene practices by several years, I mean most of them still run Windows XP and Windows ME.

>>715946297
i think this is what i most remembered about my steam profile since i first used it to buy total war shogun 2

>>715949435
u wuld go there with ur boys and get bawls guarana and hop on a valve game or jedi knight academy and pwn the emo kids on the other side of the room who would then find you and try to fight u. one time a kid was having a birthday party there and my friend overheard the password to their private game. so we both joined and pwned them while they kept shouting who are these guys???

>>715943845 (OP)
i bought the valve pack for $50

I lost my original OG steam account back in 2011, still pissed about it to this day

>>715950218
how does that happen

>>715950265
I got hacked over something retarded I did, steam are usually good at recovering the account but I think its gone forever.

>>715944404
>there was a time when everyone hated Steam
Back when humanity had at least some intelligence left

>>715944404
Some still hate it...

>>715951465
There are still intelligent humans, unfortunately India was released on the internet in the last decade, and we still have 60% more of them to come

>>715949616
The hl2 sound effects still feel like next-gen gaming to me

>>715953346
The soundscape system is really underrated

>>715943845 (OP)
no, my AMD graphics card back then came with the Bronze package

>>715943845 (OP)
Nah, I only buy good games.

>>715944194
>>715944404
i hate that they killed theme support with the new redesign
i used to have a Windows Metro theme that matched my windows theme and shit was cash

>>715944459
>>game
games*

>>715944404
That was like 3 -5 years of hating steam