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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

How did this work? The way I remember it HL2 was pretty much the first game on Steam. I remember it being really controversial because you had to install Steam to play the game even offline and people didn’t like that. It was like the original Rockstar Social Club.

How did the survey exist early enough for HL2 to be developed around it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

My steam account is from September 2003. A couple weeks after its launch

CS 1.6 and generally HL1 and mods were the first (replacing WON for multiplayer matching)

[–] Schal330 9 points 1 month ago

I remember installing CounterStrike before Steam, and then an update forcing Steam install, it was around the years Warcraft 3 came out. I'm sure it was a thing before HL2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought steam was out before that. I thought I recalled installing steam and thinking man this server browser sucks compared to Kali.net / browser at the time. Had all sorts of problems playing hl one based mods multiplayer before hl2 came out. Of course they fixed everything and it was amazing for a long time (mp server browser in hl based games). I’m pretty sure steam was out for quite a bit before hl2 dropped.