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Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN (www.ign.com)

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Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans.

Steam first opened its figurative doors all the way back in September 2003, and has since grown into the largest digital PC gaming storefront in the world, which is actively used by tens of millions of players each day.

“In case anyone's curious about the odd colours, that's the colour scheme for the original Steam UI when it first launched,” commented Redditor Penndrachen, referring to the badge's army green colour scheme, which prompted a mixed reaction from players who remembered the platform's earliest days. “I joined in the first six months,” lamented Affectionate-Memory4. “I feel ancient rn.”

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[-] thantik@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Sept 12th 2003 is the date of my account. Tomorrow it turns 20. Very nice.

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Fellow sept 12th here! Never would have thought that the simple looking launcher would turnout to be one of biggest juggernaut of selling digitale games!

Had to make a account so I could keep on playing CS 1.6. good times.

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[-] DrWorm@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm two days behind you.

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"What's your friend ID"
"123456"...
"Okay, what's the rest of the numbers?"
"That's it. Those ARE the numbers"
*pikachu face*

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[-] doubletwist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Mine doesn't turn 20 until January. I decided to wait a bit to see if it would actually fail first.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hated the idea of an installer to install programs that had their own installers. It seemed like a pointless extra program to me, so I resisted getting it until I wanted to play Counterstrike and Steam was the best, or maybe the only way to do that. So I broke down and opened a Steam account.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I'd still prefer if we didn't have to have these launchers.

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[-] thantik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I was a daily CounterStrike 1.6 player back then. I didn't have a choice. Literally couldn't play unless I converted over to a Steam account.

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[-] Maraval26@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

I remember thinking Steam would die in less than 6 months because nobody wanted dematerialised games…

[-] Glifted@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Part of the problem was how poorly steam ran when it was first introduced

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

yeah at the time you were forced into it. the won servers were shut down and most peoples computers werent good enough to play CS and have this clunky software running in the background at the same time. it worked but alt-tabbing back then was a gong show and you definitely had the performance hit.

i played CS daily then so the first day was a shit show and I dont think I got much time in that day. mostly just trying to get connected...the servers were overloaded.

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[-] JasSmith@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I still remember that meme with the Valve gear fucking a guy in the ass. Steam was not well received.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I cursed Valve for forcing me to install Steam to play HL2.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember getting Half Life 2 for free with my graphics card, then realizing that I needed to download a whole ass other program to redeem my code and download the game. I thought it was for sure a scam and some kind of virus they were trying to get me to install. There were lots of "free" things back then that required you to download a virus to redeem.

Eventually I learned it was legit and downloaded it and got my free copy of HL2, but I was not happy about it.

Now every time I download a game at 800Mbps, I'm like, "I LOVE STEAM"

Edit: I just checked when I created my account. 16 years, 10 months ago. I still have a bit to go before I hit that 20 year mark. Apparently I created my account on my mom's birthday? I wonder why I did that instead of doing something with her?

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[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I didn't want it, still don't. I actively avoided any game that required it but seems I gave up on 23 July 2011

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[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Ah man, mine is only 18 years old.

[-] gridleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Did you make your account for Half-Life 2? My account is the same age, and that's the game that introduced me to Steam.

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I made an account in January 2005, probably for HL2.
I initially resisted making an account and I hated Steam back then.
They've since fixed a lot of things and I now have 250+ games on it.
I have to admit, Valve is one of the few big game companies that haven't gone to absolute shit.
Though I dread the day GabeN steps down or sells out...

Another thing that I didn't agree with back in the day was WoW, paying a subscription to play was a hard no. Still haven't played it, which kinda sucks because I was a big fan of the old Warcraft games and of RPGs in general.
Voting with my wallet certainly didn't change much for them, although it probably was better for me.

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[-] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember connecting with WON before steam, nostalgia CS days

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 13 points 1 year ago

wish i could hide badges.... the CS 10 year veteran badge makes it really shameful to play CS... because I never play CS, I just own it.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I too bought CS:S so I could use the assets in Garry's Mod.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One more year and my Steam account can legally drink and smoke. I'm taking it to Vegas!

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[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

"Only" 12 years here.

[-] funkmunki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I hit 16 a few months ago.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Orange box homies say whatsup.

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[-] wowbagger@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Hitting 20 in 5 hours... ;)

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

I only signed up to play hl2 I think before that I used keys and CDs for things like ground zero

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[-] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Incredibly, some of Steam’s early adopter accounts are still actively in use today, a full two decades after their creation.

There are dozens of us!

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Nice. I didn't make a Steam account until it supported Linux back in 2013 or so. So I guess I'll be celebrating 10 years on Steam soon.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Took me awhile to look it up, but just saw I’ve had my account since December 31, 2003. I’m just about at 20 years.

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[-] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh man. It is year 20. I think I made my account like 6 days in. I have a 6 digit steam ID.

[-] innermeerkat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I remember the steam beta, allowing me to finally ditch « the all seeing eye ».

Count me in the 20s !

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I think I made mine in 2009 for some sweet sweet TF2.

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[-] Green_Bay_Guy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

[-] Oz0ne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Before steamid there was wonid. OGs know.

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[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My account is @hotmail.com. I'm not sure I'm in this wave, but it must be a few weeks till I hit it.

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[-] Greylock@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

aw, only 19 for me!

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