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Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2 (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Enoril@jlai.lu 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have to thanks Vivendi group (a shitty conglomerate from my country who killed a lot of good products) who have forced Gabe to move to online sale as Valve couldn’t adapt the bad reseller contract they had with this Vivendi (who tried later to kill their business via lawsuit).

If you didn’t see it yet, have a look on the 20 years documentary of HL2. Really interesting.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Vivendi got so close to killing Valve and HL2, it is scary. Gabe had balls of steel and championed on.