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@alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish • 6 months ago

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%'

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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%'

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@alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish • 6 months ago
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    I was one of them. But I mean, back then most people either didn’t have Internet or at least didn’t have broadband. I had dial-up until like a month after it released.

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