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Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

I remember Steam's launch and understand completely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

I hated Steam for a long time because of Half-life 2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

I remember the uproar when CS 1.6 required steam. It was huge and everyone was angry. It took a lot of pull that CS didn't die because of steam, a lot of players stayed on 1.5 for a long time. But HL2 was too big of an argument to stay off steam.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

I mean.... It was a gamble. Internet was still young. Speeds weren't keeping up with game sizes outside a few major cities. I was mailed a few large files because it was quicker than downloading them. Not to mention the desire for physical copies over a digital thing you can lose with a bad hard drive was at an all time high.

Then people realized the internet wasn't just nerd shit, ISPs slowly ramped up their DL speeds and suddenly the thing people mocked for not being feasible is doing well because of how convenient it became.

Gabe even admits he had doubts for awhile.

I wonder where gaming would be if he had listened to the doubters. There's no denying valve has had a major impact on modern gaming

[–] Dyskolos -3 points 57 minutes ago

So what? That's called survivorship-bias. He can only say that because he got excessively lucky against all odds. Lottery-winners shouldn't exist either 😉