It’s easy to forget: PC gamers hated Steam at launch.
to help celebrate, too. But don’t go looking there for a history of Steam itself... perhaps because Steam was originally a tad controversial?When it launched 20 years ago today on September 12th, 2003, it seemed like Valve was trying to take away our, which required Steam to play even if you bought a physical disc, made Steam look like a glorified piece of DRM.
And why pay Valve, many game publishers asked themselves, when they could build or buy their own digital distribution platforms like EA’s Origin or Ubisoft’s UPlay instead?and its mods turned out to be a massive hit that PC gamers couldn’t ignore — and deals Valve cut with publisher after publisher quickly made SteamTwenty years later, the last stragglers are still coming into the fold, like
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