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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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (38 children)

He's right. Everyone hated the idea of any always online DRM to play the disc you bought in a store. Steam backed off with options for a game to sometimes work offline and a pinky promise to free your games if Gaben died and the new owner decided you own nothing.

It's weird, people hate the current DRM system for games and love Steam. Yet it was Steam that pioneered it. If Steam failed, there's a chance we would still own games instead of them being tied to online DRM verification.

Steam is the benevolent dictator but that's not going to last forever.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (3 children)

No, that's what consumers like you are thinking in hindsight and unrelated.

The context Gabe is talking about is when he was approaching publishers. They were just being anti tech and believing in traditional brick and mortar. They were definently pro-DRM. They just couldn't fathom a digital marketplace.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Maybe you weren't old enough to remember it, but people were pissed and swore they would forever boycott Steam when it released

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But it's not what the quote is talking about. You're just correlating different things.

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