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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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[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

Oh MAN. I forgot about those times, hand typing in a 36 character CD key that was spat out by a dot matrix printer with questionable typeset legibility…

[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

And importing foreign copies because they sold for cheaper in other countries. I still have a Korean box copy of Call of Duty 2. After buying one, my household needed a second so that I could play at the same time as my sibling, and didn't want to spend a whole $50 for the privilege. They would even send you a copy of the key in email while you waited on the physical box to show up, because the importers knew what they were doing.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I also may have had a Malaysian CD key or two in my time 😅

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