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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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[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I used the old Stardock/Impulse/GameStop game platform as well! I'd mostly switched to GoG (and Steam) by the time it shut down, but there are certainly some games that were lost to the platform shutting down.

I don't think I even signed up for Steam until 2010 or so. Certainly it was pretty clear that Steam had "won" by the time I made an account

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