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[The_Monk]

Thank you for posting this fellow GAFfer. It's an amazing thread based on a great Service. Amazing thread made by an amazing GAFfer.

It's been a while since Steam was only about games, they built a great Community, they kept adding new stuff, introducing news ways for players to discuss what they like the most and the fact that they listen to their consumers is always a good thing for any company.

Steam-GAF is full of amazing, great, kind people that help build the unique Community that is GAF. We bring people closer, we help increasing the Backlogs, we talk about games and sometimes we even play them! Even with some many social added features on Steam that would not mean anything if we were not surrounded for such fine people to share our achievements, games, opinions, screenshots, and many more features. They created the Service but it's people like us and like many great GAFfers that helped them built the number one place to be on PC weather for playing games, collecting them or just talk about them.

Happy birthday Steam! May you keep on improving this fine service because this Community keeps getting bigger and bigger.

 

[Hellsing321]

Wish I hadn't lost the credentials to my 2002 Steam Beta account.

Happy Birthday Steam!

 

[nbthedude]

Steam is the reason I became a PC gamer 3 years ago. And it is largely the reason I will remain one even after the new consoles come out.

I love everything about it's infrastructure: the sales, the social functions, the breath and depth of the title catalog.

Quite frankly, it kicks the shit out of Xbox Live or PSN.

Happy Birthday, Steam. And congrats to the hard working guys and gals at Valve that have made such a kick ass system.

 

[jediyoshi]

I remember this Steam.

sweet, let's play some chess

 

[EmCeeGramr]

i remember when like a tenth of the message board signatures online had to contain this

 

[TheSeks]

I remember this Steam.

http://i.imgur.com/otsZZ.jpg

So do I. I kinda want that back as a theme. Just to remember the pain.

How long and how far Steam has come since the CS1.6 days. It's too bad I don't remember my old Steam account as my current one is like 6-7 years old.

 

[Nokterian]

Happy birthday steam! Using steam since 2007 and it is still great. Loving those new trading cards and making your profile more awesome the community market so i can earn money from selling in-game items,the amazing workshop with load and loads of mod,automated patching and the list goes on. In Gaben i trust.

 

[snoopeasystreet]

 

[Sub_Level]

I started in 2005.

Steam, you're a keeper.

i remember when like a tenth of the message board signatures online had to contain this

I still see the one with the piston going in and out of the guy's butt.

 

[SolidSnakesMyStepDad]

10?
1 + 0 = 1
Half life 2 named #1 game of the decade
A decade is 10 years long
10 in base 6 is 14
4-1 = 3.....

Awesome post OP. I'm still new to steam (one year active) and the transition to PC gaming has been well worth it. Steam has created one of my biggest first world problems. Too many games to play.

Save that for reddit.

Spoiler

 

[Mugatu]

I was late to the party by a several months but still love Steam.

Now, i hated it at first especially after my account got locked right after I made my first purchase of HL2 and I couldn't find a way to even contact anyone at Valve.

 

[Dolor]

Here's to many more years!

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Sept 12, 2003 here, sucka!

You beat me by one day!

 

[ekim]

So 3 more days until the HL3 ARG? Nice!

 

[Tadale]

I've been onboard for almost the full ten years. What a hot mess it was at the hl2 launch.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Welcome back MRORANGE, great thread. I hope you'll stick around and post

 

[Fuu]

Great OP.

I had an account since 2007 but I only "converted" fully earlier this year. I only buy things I plan to actually play and even then my library grew at a ridiculous pace because of all the low prices and great offerings. It's pretty much synonymous with PC gaming as far as I'm concerned. I'm happy about their growing attention concerning the particularities of my region (Brazil) and from the sounds of it it's been paying off on their side too. Viva Gaben.

 

[Nokterian]

Great thread!

My first Steam experience (February 11th, 2008):

Eek!

My first bought steam game also!

 

[JordanKZ]

Looks like I missed the opening of Steam by a few months (mid December 2003 for me). Steam has completely changed my gaming habits over the last decade. I haven't pirated a game in probably 8 or 9 years, I have a HUGE catalog of games that are just at my fingertips and given the choice, I will always buy a game on PC before console.

Valve and Steam have continually given more and more to players and given us an incentive to buy games through their service, rather than pirate them. You actually LOSE out if you pirate games now. When you think about it, this is crazy.

 

[Snkfanatic]

I remember this Steam.

Oh my god the memories

Also welcome back Mr Orange!

 

[fantomena]

Steam is the best thing that happened to PC gaming. If it were not for Steam, I would not be a PC gamer.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Also where is the section on the Steam mascots? Huh? You wouldn't have a thread about Nintendo that doesn't have a section on Mario, just saying.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

FFS this is a celebration. Can we get that Steam updating gif showing the progress bar!

 

[MNC]

I'mma PC! T.

 

[DryvBy]

Amir Rao said tits. Or my eyes are bad.

 

[Dolor]

Steam is the best thing that happened to PC gaming. If it were not for Steam, I would not be a PC gamer.

Agreed. In some ways, I am a Steam gamer and then a PC gamer.

 

[ShadyJ]

10 years old? gotta be some sales incoming

 

[X05]

Great thread.

I hope Valve steps up and gives us an EPIC celebratory sale.

 

[massoluk]

I survived HL2 launched.

The few, the proud, the original Steam users. Ahh the One that liberated us from the clutches of Gamespy client.

 

[derExperte]

Which means I didn't do all that much with Steam from registering in 2004 for HL2 until 2009 when Braid was released. But after that the pace accelerated immenensly.

 

[TouchMyBox]

So what is valve going to be giving us of those who are getting our 10 year badges on the 12th?

 

[nbthedude]

Also where is the section on the Steam mascots? Huh? You wouldn't have a thread about Nintendo that doesn't have a section on Mario, just saying.

I was kind of sad that they weren't in the recent Summer sale. Is Valve phasing them out? I hope not; they have a Charlie Brown like charm.

 

[JaseC]

Nice thread, and welcome back! I hope there's some sort of sale.

Wish I hadn't lost the credentials to my 2002 Steam Beta account.

Happy Birthday Steam!

I lost my original Steam account thanks to a mate changing the password, which I explicitly told him not to do because I knew he'd forget what it was. I never bought anything using the account and the jewel cases containing the CD key/s I registered to it are long gone -- as is the e-mail address tied to it.

 

[Stop It]

Sept 12, 2003 here, sucka!

Same here. One of the first 10,000 accounts on Steam here.

Hoping for a 10th birthday sale, or something to mark it.

I must say that 10 years ago I would never have thought we would be here. Not with a buggy system that was only made because Valve had to replace WON. Well I'm more than happy that my cynicism was proved wrong.

Here's to the next 10 years of Steam.

 

[Vibranium]

Hard to believe it's been 10 years, here's to many more and hopefully a new client build at some point hehe!

As far as celebration goes, a sale or some sort of event would be great, anything is fine by me though.

 

[Face it Tiger..]

oh god oh god,

I feel so old.


anyway, steam won't let me start up the application on my pc.

it just attempts to update and connect, and then it just closes..

 

[Deleted member 144138]

Oh wow! Congrats STEAM <3

 

[Protein]

When are we going to get some new Steam themes?! I hate using third-party ones.

 

[MRORANGE]

Welcome back MRORANGE, great thread. I hope you'll stick around and post

Back for good for now

*Starts working on Seam thread VI*

 

[Stumpokapow]

I was kind of sad that they weren't in the recent Summer sale. Is Valve phasing them out? I hope not; they have a Charlie Brown like charm.

Valve is basically a soul-sucking faceless corporation that can't see the forest for the trees, so it's no surprise they'd rather make DOTA 2 hats than focus on what really matters: the dudes. I'd go Origin exclusive if Origin had cool mascots.

 

[nbthedude]

I survived HL2 launched.

The few, the proud, the original Steam users. Ahh the One that liberated us from the clutches of Gamespy client.

I remember that I had dial up at the time and I went and bought the game and it took me like two fucking days to be able to play it due to the server issues and patch downloads. I was primarily a console gamer at the time and it irritated the fuck out of me that I couldn't just put the damn game in and play it.

I didn't play another PC game until four years ago. I wish I still remembered/had access to that old account just for nostalgia's sake. When I came back to PC gaming in 2008, I made a new Steam account.

 

[Nymphae]

Hard to believe it's been 10 years, here's to many more and hopefully a new client build at some point hehe!

As far as celebration goes, a sale or some sort of event would be great, anything is fine by me though.

Yeah these anniversaries are making me feel too old. I had Steam the day HL2 was released, and somehow lost access to my account shortly after beating the game. At the time I didn't care to get it working again, because the store wasn't anywhere near what it is today. I didn't end up getting a good gaming PC until last year, and it's just amazing to see how far Steam has come.

 

[Nabs]

Valve is basically a soul-sucking faceless corporation that can't see the forest for the trees, so it's no surprise they'd rather make DOTA 2 hats than focus on what really matters: the dudes. I'd go Origin exclusive if Origin had cool mascots.

Mascots are on the roadmap! Expect to see rough sketches during Q4 2016.

 

[Tizoc]

BLESS THE GABE! BLESS THE GABE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGxA48HQ1g

 

[Alessandro]

Ah 2003... Being thirteen and having a bath every 3 days. Good times.

 

[Archaon]

Technically it was late on September 11 that it launched.

Member since 11 September 2003.

 

[strafer]

Woah.

Gabe Newell Net Worth

$1.5 Billion

 

[capitalCORN]

Fuck me. Missed it by a day. No cake for me? No worries, Steam is great! Happy birthday impulsive purchase machine!

 

[PoweredBySoy]

I love you, Steam.

 

[MisterAnderson]

Going on 9 years for me. I don't know what I'd do without Steam. Probably play less games in general I'm sure.

Laughing so hard at this. What is the original called?