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Gabe Newell says 99% of the industry thought Steam won't work as a distribution platform at the start, because "people want physical copies"
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BigBeauford
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I love how everyone is trying to nail down Steam for comment on its "Nazi" situation, and Gabe's public comment since then amounts to "btw, I'm a genius".
SportsFan581
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I'm sure those are some opinions that these folks want to sweep under the rug today, LOL.
Buggy Loop
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Found a few interesting gems deep into neogaf around steam debacle
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More positive than I thought. Although, neogaf started sometime in 2004 so its missing the launch period of Steam, would have to dig into time capsules of gaming-age for that.
Do you think mags/websites need to re-review Half Life 2 due to the Steam debacle?
I found Jeff Greens comments interesting in this thread: http://www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15129 Now, as a preface, I haven't had any problems at all with this game (I bought it on Steam) so I'm not bring this up as a bash. In fact, I didn't even know there was one...
Will "Steam" change the industry?
Gamespot wrote up a column on Valve's network that makes a lot of good points. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/news_6112757.html If developers can create their own "pipeline" directly to the consumers without having to go through a publisher, who knows how it could affect...
If Steam(Half Life 2) succeeds...
what will it mean to the industry ? are publishers eventually doomed ? would more PC developers opted for this sort of system bypassing the middle man and taking all the spoils ?. I wonder if Valve have plans to license Steam out.....
More positive than I thought. Although, neogaf started sometime in 2004 so its missing the launch period of Steam, would have to dig into time capsules of gaming-age for that.
Donald mac Ronald
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People thinking this started with the force steam from half life 2.
Actually If you were an avid CS player and everyone played CS 1.5 back in the day because online games were far less than today.
They forced you to have steam for cs 1.6. 1.6 was such a bait too, because it introduced 2 new guns. Everyone wanted to play it.
And by god steam was so shit back then.
Actually If you were an avid CS player and everyone played CS 1.5 back in the day because online games were far less than today.
They forced you to have steam for cs 1.6. 1.6 was such a bait too, because it introduced 2 new guns. Everyone wanted to play it.
And by god steam was so shit back then.