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Hey r/gaming, remember this? (i.imgur.com)

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[–]darkhunt3r 79 points80 points ago

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remember when steam was treated like origin....

[–]Ragingsheep[S] 35 points36 points ago

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But Gabe bribed us over with candy, and sales, and hats...so many hats...

[–]Hawiiday 1 point2 points ago

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DID SOMEBODY SAY HATS?!?! WHO SAID HATS????

[–]player1337 3 points4 points ago

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Remember when Steam was like "Hey, it's that button I click before I can start Counter-Strike and hopefully it will work."? And what did we get for this? A fucking riot shield.

But Valve was kind of like Blizzard is now. Whatever they did, the fans flamed them and bought their stuff anyway. EA had a shitty reputation back then and has a shitty reputation now. That's the difference.

[–]VenomViper 1 point2 points ago

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to be fair steam didn't have much to go by when they started, or the money and amount of ppl that EA has. Also the costumer service they provide is so damn bad that you'll want to cry. Think most of us expected more... or did we.

[–]darkhunt3r 3 points4 points ago

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do you remember what happened when they said that hl2 would only come with steam ? those downvotes definitly do not....

[–]VenomViper -1 points0 points ago*

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now your on another topic; exclusivity, imo that's fine if you are the one making the game and not just publishing, as EA (BF3). But as i said diffrent topic and that's just my opinion.

[–]Sinistersnare 0 points1 point ago

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but VALVe was pioneering. Origin has many competitors and knows what to do and how to do it, because they have tons of money and are able to follow things like steams footsteps. VALVe earned greatness, but origin has taken of all of what these companies have done, and thrown it away. if that makes no sense, fuck you i dont feel like proofreading

[–]SlurmsMackenzie92 0 points1 point ago

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I don't think valve were the first to do something like that, just the first popular one on pc

[–]HelloAnnyong 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah... I remember when people irrationally claimed that Steam was hogging their computers' resources, etc., etc.

[–]cnostrand 6 points7 points ago

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Steam WAS a hog. It still is really. It's just as much of a hog now as it was then, but we don't really notice it because computers are much more capable now.

[–]narcoblix 1 point2 points ago

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I have found that not to be true. I just took a nice screenshot of task manager to demonstrate. Steam takes up less memory than a bunch of my chrome windows, my mumble client, skype, and my keyboard drivers. I don't think Steam is a system hog (at least not now it isn't).

[–]zitacos 2 points3 points ago

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Yep, my task manager also concurs

Steam Task Manager

[–]Oaden 1 point2 points ago

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And how big was your ram when steam came out?

[–]GrrBeck 2 points3 points ago

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Counter-Strike was noticably more laggy with Steam. It also crashed a ton, and was always updating. It was a complete fuckup, hell friends didn't work for YEARS.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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It was only just last year when my old CS buddy booted up new Steam his first reaction was "holy shit friends work?!"

[–]ggalitz -1 points0 points ago

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ANOTHER MONTH

[–]dysmantle -5 points-4 points ago

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Steam was never like origin, it had problems but at least most of the games LAUNCHED.

Origin has update issues itself, friends list issues, cloud sync issues, browser plugin issues, game update issues.

Steam has kept somewhat the same interface with minor tweaks.

Origin is a good attempt but falls short in a BAD and Extreme way. (not to mention the horrid voice chat and crappy grouping system).

[–]supergtt 12 points13 points ago

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yes I remember this. I played soooo much day of defeat back in the day. When the steam switch over happened I was like "wtf is this shit"

[–]Stooky 1 point2 points ago

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I hated when it changed to the new black. But now looking back, it looks so old but so nice and nostalgic and full of cs 1.6 and dod magic.

[–]monkinator 23 points24 points ago

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jesus, I forgot it used to be green lol, brings back some old memories

[–]microchip08 2 points3 points ago

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The Source SDK still is :D

[–]KeyboardSlides 11 points12 points ago

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It's funny because they don't...

[–]Xuerian 0 points1 point ago

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It's funny because I still "see" it. In my bandwidth graph when it decides to update and give me no "cancel" button, usually right in the middle of playing some non-steam game online.

People rag on origin, but downloads are easy to control in it.

Ever tried stopping a steam download on slow internet? Pause (wait wait wait wait wait wai... two deaths later) paused

[–]jojotmagnifficent 5 points6 points ago

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Nope, I have conveniently expunged that time from my mind.

[–]Aziek 2 points3 points ago

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I was convinced Steam was a virus.

[–]Fenoe 5 points6 points ago

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yes i remember screaming STEAMing pile of shit

[–]Wtfizz 2 points3 points ago

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Yeah, I remember getting CSS and not wanting to play because Steam seemed so dumb to me.

[–]undercoveruser 2 points3 points ago

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I do and I also remember Steams and Valves old websites. Good times indeed.

[–]Theubermedic 5 points6 points ago

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Wow, old version of Team Fortress 2 website.

[–]undercoveruser 0 points1 point ago

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Ha ha, wow! I totally forgot about the "old" Team Fortress 2.

[–]Theubermedic -1 points0 points ago

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I always thought the background to the old Valve website was rather creepy in a way. Maybe that's just me though.

[–]MrCrunchwrap 13 points14 points ago

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Hey /r/gaming, remember when I can post a screenshot of anything nostalgic and get lots of karma?

[–]Ragingsheep[S] 12 points13 points ago

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Sorry for the interruption. Your normal programming of anti-Origin, BF3 sucks circlejerking will resume in 5...4...3...2...1...0!

[–]MrCrunchwrap 2 points3 points ago

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No see the thing is it's not an interruption. People post links like yours constantly.

"Hey r/gaming, remember this?" must be the headline of a good 25% of posts here. OF COURSE WE REMEMBER IT, FUCK.

/endrant

[–]moonmeh 1 point2 points ago

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... Wow just wow. That link is...

[–]Seba252 1 point2 points ago

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Good times indeed.

[–]DrSaius 1 point2 points ago

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gotta pre-cache those resources

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Yah it still runs like shit. Its like the itunes of gaming in terms of its general responsiveness.

[–]ZyrxilToo 1 point2 points ago

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Funnily enough, people expect things that come out 7 years later to not be as shitty as the first service was in the beginning.

[–]Deric 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah, I just got an update yesterday. I'm so old skool.

[–]Fuxley 0 points1 point ago

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Haha yeah, back when I used to hate Steam. Oh how that changed.

[–]ntongh2o 0 points1 point ago

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I liked the green UI better than the black one.

[–]happywafflez 0 points1 point ago

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I've been a steam member since '04 and i'm only 20. This wasn't that long ago.

[–]TheSpie 0 points1 point ago

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I wonder if there is a proper steam skin that utilizes the old steam style

[–]Nimblekibbles 0 points1 point ago

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Read those in GLaDOS's voice.

[–]Thorgusta 0 points1 point ago

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Fuck nostalgia post.

[–]megatom0 0 points1 point ago

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Oh yeah, steam was pretty horrible when it came out, and everyone hated it as DRM. I remember there were complaints about customer service and never buying Valve products again, and how they would they would quit playing Counter Strike and how Valve was killing PC gaming with this type of thing. I also remember personally hating it because back in 2004 not every campus had the best of internet, and everytime I wanted to play HL2 the game would decide to update, which would take about 30 minutes to an hour if it didn't freeze at some point. They also seemed to update steam HL2 or CS:S every other fucking day. Steam didn't have the whole play offline thing worked out quite either so that wasn't exactly an option all the time.

Tl;DR: Steam sucked when it first came out and would regularly prevent you from playing the single player campaign of Half Life 2.

[–]AnonVas 0 points1 point ago

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BUT I JUST WANT TO PLAY OFFLINE!?

[–]digitaldokuro 0 points1 point ago

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Ha :) read in GLADOS' voice!

[–]Eshploder 0 points1 point ago

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Wait is there some version of steam that doesn't do that? Because mine still does. And is slow as hell. And takes up a shit ton of memory if I leave the client open.

[–]LordOfGummies 0 points1 point ago

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Happens when you first install steam, I like the old theme.

[–]darkhunt3r 0 points1 point ago

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remember when steam was treated like origin....

[–]magicpostit 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, I got Steam when it was in beta, it sucked, so I went back to playing on WON. Where is EA's previous service that still works while they're working out the bugs in their new online distribution/networking service? Then it eventually improved and became what it is today. The point is, EA should not have used the launch of Battlefield 3 as a push to get people to use Origin. They should have worked the kinks out with other games for a much longer period of time before they released their biggest multiplayer release of the year.

[–]mjk0104 0 points1 point ago

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Only started using steam about a year ago.

Hesitant fist-pump...

Wait... did I miss something awesome?

[–]Chesthair 0 points1 point ago

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Oh yes, I do remember 2004.

Quite funny, I guess. I mean, it's like comparing the most powerful computer right now to a computer 10 years ago.

They've had so much time to learn from Valve/Steams mistakes, but didn't learn a damn thing.

Also: Valve Employees - 200

EA Employees - 10,000.

Yeah...

[–]demsix 0 points1 point ago

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Steam launched Sept 12th 2003, not 2004.

[–]Nabstar -1 points0 points ago

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LOL OMG LIKE SO COOL RIGHT

[–]loinbread -2 points-1 points ago

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STEAM STEAM LOL

SOMEONE GET ME 3 DOZEN KRISPY KREME PLZKTHNX

[–]Dogby -1 points0 points ago

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yeah. four digit steam id. holler at me bro

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[–]Im_a_gringo 5 points6 points ago

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How long has Origin been out? Get Valve's dick out of your mouth and try being less biased.

[–]knightofmars -2 points-1 points ago

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The problem is, Origin is useless other than buying digital exclusives, where as Steam isn't and never has been as bad as Origin.

[–]ConservativeSpin -5 points-4 points ago*

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Haha,that makes Origin's problems perfectly okay!

It also mean you can't criticize Origin since Steam wasn't criticized before... Oh, wait.

Also, EA has had a download service (EA link,EA download, EA download manager)for a long time, it was just re-branded constantly because of its many problems. You would think after all that time they could have gotten it right.

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