What was Gabe's real goal when releasing Steam with Half-Life 2, in 2004?
this image is not from 2004kill yourself
>>727684036making games less cancerous to update.which is funny because half life 2 was left with broken visuals for a very long time until recently
it was counter strike matchmaking service that made it also easy to download mods from custom servers
server hosting just like gamespy and battle.net at the time
>>727684036What the other guys said + creating a walled garden and storefront for Valve’s games
>>727684036Gabe saw the nascent forms of centralized digital distribution online in the late 90s/early 00s and thought "hey, wait a minute, we could do that with games and game updates"He forced people to install Steam with Half-Life 2 because people at the time were extremely resistant to the idea of Steam or thought it would never work, so he needed a way to force an initial install base for it to make people give it a try and come around to his vision. And it worked.
>>727684036No. Steam launched with a cs patch w riot shields.
