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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    1 year ago

    Cool. I don’t disagree with any of that, for the record.

    It’s the defensiveness and outright denialism of the tradeoffs that I’m calling out, if anything.

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      1 year ago

      When it was released, Steam was absolute shit, which is something people tend to forget or ignore.
      It has certainly come a long way, but it’s still a “Games as a Service” where you don’t really own anything.
      Then again, my account is 18 y.o.

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        1 year ago

        I remember when Steam the software was the worst piece of software on my computer. And it stayed that way for long enough that it became a meme.