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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Orange box homies say whatsup.

Hitting 20 in 5 hours... ;)

Same here. I created my account after getting Half-Life 2 for Christmas. Hard to believe that came out in Nov 2004.