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[-] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 days ago

I mean, Valve already started it back in the day, it was pretty common to buy a physical disk and discover that the installer required you to install steam. Later on they wouldn't even put the full game on the disk, you just got a key to download it from steam.

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