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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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[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 102 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I remember hating the idea, during the age when games came in boxes. Now i support Steam with the tremendous support they've given the Linux platform. Most games i have are games on Steam, but i do have a bunch on GoG, as well as Itch.io. Don't keep all your eggs in one basket, but have to admit the Steam basket is humongous.

[–] Thrawne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I still have a bulk of those CD’s (not the boxes anymore). I keep them in a binder with the CD holder sleeves. Same for my drivers, and operating systems. I have disks of going back to NT, 95b, and 98. I only started in to PC’ in 1998/9. I wish i had my original Voodoo3 driver disk. I remember buying that card in my way back from school one afternoon. I was so excited to install it.

I was skeptical of Steam when it launched as well. It has proven to be a good service.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Beware bit rot.

Granted most of those are going to be archived anyway but I wouldn't count on them being useable indefinately.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good news is that disc rot doesn't happen as quickly for stamped CDs as it does in CD-Rs.

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