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Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam | Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company on August 24, 1996. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 61 points 2 months ago (26 children)

And I boycotted steam's avidly for the first years because I knew what will happen and how they will kill physical games and the 2nd-hand-market (and the lending of games) for the poorer.

Caved in with left4dead2 finally and am now at like 20k games. And was right. Both markets are basically dead and I joined the devil.

At least, as long as they're not going public, they enrich gaming a bit, as they're not just a sales-platform like epic.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Fast internet is what killed physical games.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    So, you're saying porn is the ultimate culprit? Because without porn we'd probably still be on 1Mbit or so

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    You can lend games on steam.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Really

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    You can either create a family and share games that way or you can login on your friends computer and install the game. They can then borrow the game.

    You cannot play a game while your copy is being borrowed (played) by another user.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Kinda. Unless it's excluded. And if family member x plays one of my games, I cannot play a game or else they'd get kicked. Better than nothing though.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    And if family member x plays one of my games, I cannot play a game or else they’d get kicked.

    If you are doing Steam Family Sharing, then the only limit is that you both cannot play the same game at the same time. You can play different games at the same time, even if they are both from your account.

    I use the feature all the time, it is great. Convinced my SO to buy a few games already as they tried it from my account, liked it, then bought their own copy so we could play it together.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Oh is that so? actually never bother witu the sharing, was adamant that it was account, not game-restricted. OK even better then. Still far from optimal. You can't just gift a game away you don't want to play anymore. That would be big.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    That would be super cool if you could generate a unique code and once its redeemed its removed from your library.

    That certainly would he big!

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Steam is the second less evil of the current market, the least evil is GOG

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    True. Wouldn't even color gog evil at all. No DRM and it "conservated" old stuff. Buy game, own game. Even if gog is gone tomorrow, as long as you downloaded all your stuff, it's still yours.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    how they will kill physical games and the 2nd-hand-market (and the lending of games) for the poorer.

    Yeah, I remember when you could buy a physical PC game and then resell it when you didn't want it anymore.. oh wait, they'd always fucking refuse 2nd hand pc games, and not even give refunds because the CD key would have been seen by someone.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    True, it was always moving that way, because greed, but better Steam than EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Epic Games and Blizzard with their shit stores.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yes absolutely. Hence my closing sentence. As long as they remain a private company, all will probably be smooth. But thinking of how shit will go south with light speed once Gaven clocks out...I don't wanna think about it.

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