The first public Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier.
      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 minutes ago

        Let’s see…

        • “No takesies-backsies” refund policy.
        • User “reviews” are hidden and only used to serve you better ads.
        • Supported platforms are Windows and Windows.
        • “Join our Discord to discuss game.”
        • Controller input rebinding is nonexistent; disabled people don’t matter.
        • Controllers are supported… except when doing anything before the game is actually launched.
        • Download strange DLLs from websites to install mods.
        • Alt-tab between your game and YouTube to read guides.

        And little Timmy said gaming would be better without a Steam monopowly.

      • Enoril@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        23 minutes ago

        We have to thanks Vivendi group (a shitty conglomerate from my country who killed a lot of good products) who have forced Gabe to move to online sale as Valve couldn’t adapt the bad reseller contract they had with this Vivendi (who tried later to kill their business via lawsuit).

        If you didn’t see it yet, have a look on the 20 years documentary of HL2. Really interesting.