And who is 1 and 2? Gaben and his wife/son? (Does he even have family?)
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u/dTreciiI did a 100% Glitchless Speedrun of Walking Simulator2d ago
No Gabe Newell is the successful test subject in a long list of failed experiments. He was a bit of a rush job so they weren’t able to teach him some things, one of which was the number 3
I've heard different theories on how steamids generated that morning but I was in the same time zone when it happened.
I pulled an all nighter and was literally on when it switched over, giving me a 3XXX steam ID. Just for reference for people that don't know, valve developers are 01, 02, 03 and so forth.
Sad story—my Steam login was tied to an email address I no longer used. I ended up taking about a six-year break from gaming because of kids, getting married, and buying a house.
When I finally came back, I built a top-of-the-line gaming PC. Long story short, I had Steam update my login email, but somehow it generated a new Steam ID for me. I used to have a short 3xxx Steam ID, and now it’s 17 characters long. :(
Only halflife was on steam back then, I think halflife 2 came later that year. it might have something to do with the won-servers going down, but other than that, I have no clue.
i actually had this 2004 account stolen from me by a scammer (me being young and naive), lucky enough i still had my cdkeys and e-mail i used as proof for steam support to revert the e-mail and password. if you had the same thing happen, try to find your cd keys and contact steam they can track the account that way.
I haven't even hit 14 yet, I didn't know about steam until halfway through high school. I mostly played console. The extent of my PC gaming was shockwave, a Lego MMO, a cartoon network MMO, a few browser RPG games and whatever I got on disk which was Harry Potter the chamber of secrets, a bunch of Disney games, hot wheels, and NASCAR racers (not a turn left in an oval game) and of course UB Funkeys.
I'm 30 and ive hated watching this happen to me.. seeing that I was 7 when steam was released is the first time in forever i dont feel old 💀 i dont think I'll get many more of these lol
It’s funny remembering “oh don’t worry you’ll feel even older later” comments in my mid twenties, and now in my thirties I’m like dear god please don’t remind me how insanely fast this shit is moving
Best thing valve did was make steam libraries really feel like a lifelong collection you can always go back to. No matter how much hardware you go through.
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I created my account in July 2014. My wife introduced me to Steam, and I created an account the month after we got married.
So, my Steam age also corresponds to the number of years I've been married to her :D
My uncle gifted me his account when I was a teenager after his wife made him give up video games to save their marriage (ikr?). The account name is still just a portmanteau of his name and his wife's name and the date is December 2, 2004. At the time all he had on there were military games like the really early CoD and the Half Life series, some stuff like Day of Defeat and Attack on Pearl Harbor.
I've had it longer than he did at this point so technically 21 year club but still, old enough.
He got me by 10 mins, sadly this was actually the second of two that I registered the first and earlier one was lost almost immediately, I made that one with my og cdkey and won Id haha, I do still have a low 4 digit though, 2497
Orange box came out after this lol. I turn 20 this October and cs source was the latest game from valve I believe. I bought orange box day one and already had a steam account. Orange box came out October 10th 2007
Seeing steam being such a great company, stuck as an angel inbetween capitalism I would argue that at some point we might see 23 year olds having accounts with the age 50 or something xd
I hated Steam back then, haha. My PC could barely run DoD, then they wanted Steam running on top of that? Oh, I was big mad about their bloat. How times have changed.
Well "Mitglied seit dem 23. Oktober 2004." - I think I got a code card for halflife 2 with my graphics card (some years before the release) and found it again :-)
This might sound OG, but I was simply a PC gamer long before the existence and there is no tracking 😂. The year was 1997. Command and Conquer Red Alert 🫡
it's my second account. my first account was created a year earlier and only had HL2 on it (and something else I forgot)... Then I bought the Collectors edition of HL2 (the tinbox) and thought, I gift my "old" account to a friend of mine and keep this one. Yeah...
Same here it installed with my boxed copy of half life 2. And I absolutely hated that a game was installing this extra software to my system and using up valuable resources.
I can't remember why i was not a day one. I remember playing Counterstrike before steam and then there is a blur. Between CS and a HL1 mod called ESF (Dragon Ball Z) i got steam.
I’m too young for this thread; I started in 2016 lol. I bet it would have been really cool to start in 2003 though, I’m jealous. (Upset that my parents didn’t sign me up for an account as a baby, smh)
I think mine would be like 15 yrs but it got hacked by a Russian and it somehow got banned until 2039 😭😭😭 didnt even bother appealing the ban the account was ruined
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u/CopyNPaste247 3d ago
I remember waiting until launch day to download it. Thus 2:35am.