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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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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 33 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is revisionist history. Steam was not the origination of DRM or even online DRM.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I remember, buy game. Enter CD key "key already taken" Return game "sorry, box is open we don't take media returns" Rage.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 minute ago

I remember taping over the square hole.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago

"Actually this disc is defective. I'd like to exchange it for a new one."

This trick will be useful if you ever go back to 1999.