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Wow, so many Half-Life 2 as their first game. … wait a sec, is that a kbin account? I thought kbin died. It was one of the reasons I switched over to a Lemmy instance.

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IamSparticles@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As I recall, you couldn’t get hl2 in stores when it first released. It was the vehicle that got people onto steam. It was a few years before they opened the platform up to other publishers.

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- DosDude@retrofed.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You could, but it was the first game that needed steam to run it. You bought the game to make the install/download faster.
  
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osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are dozens of us!

Also, Steam was released adjacent to either hl2 or the orange box, don't remember which but that's when i got it. I remember being pissed at the time for it installing a launcher lmao

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- thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  To be fair, at that time you had all the rights to be pissed about it.
  
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DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It's Mbin now, but they kept the original URL.

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