Why do we never hear about Mike Harrington? It's always Gabe Newell.
Anyways I guess congratulations to them is in order, they've done a fantastic job. I only wish they would move the company to Canada or EU. I don't buy American products or services, the only exception is Steam.

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.

Psh, somebody can't do math, '96 wasn't 30... years a-

...fuck.

I remember steam when it came out. It was absolute garbage and I was like what is up with Valve trying to force me to use their stupid online platform.

Half life was fire though.

30...? 3...? Considering how Valve has been with 3's... I think we're in the dark ages now... /s

Huzzaa!

Hey, they scanned that place for a SteamVR home world. It might be another wall, bit I think if you try clipping through it there's a Portal turret that will sound an alarm on the other side.

Half life (and it's astonishingly good remake, Black Mesa) still hold up all these years later, as does Half life 2, it's expansions, and it's VR title, which falls between HL1 and 2.

Not much of a gamer but i do remember enjoying FPSs... and then Half-Life took it up several notches.