The Unrivalled Dominion: Celebrating Steam’s 20th Anniversary as the Ultimate PC Gaming Platform

2023-09-13 08:04:14
Steam 20th Anniversary In the console game industry, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have been fighting for many years, but when it comes to the PC industry, Steam is the undoubted overlord. This platform launched in 2003 was originally just a launcher for Steam’s own games. However, as more and more third-party games were added, Steam has gradually transformed into a game library and purchase platform for PC games. It has now It is the only choice for most PC players to buy games. Only when a small number of games are unique to other platforms, they will be extremely reluctant to download other installers. To celebrate its 20th birthday, Valve created a special commemorative page for Steam and changed the main color of the interface to the classic “military green” of early launchers. Valve has also listed the popular games from 2004 to the present, which are evocative. Valve’s own classic and old games have heavy discounts, many of which are 10% off or even 0.5% off. At the same time, many non-Valve games are also participating in the discounts, but the discounts are slightly smaller. If there’s anything you really wanted back then but couldn’t afford, now would be a good opportunity to make up for it. However, although people now are very accustomed to the Steam model, when Steam was launched, it was very “considerate”. In order to combat piracy and cheating, Valve used Steam as the launcher when “Thriller 2” was launched, forcing users to connect to the Internet to check every time they play the game, even if they are playing single-player plots. This was a pretty high requirement in an era when fixed-line networks were not very popular. Unfortunately, there were so many people who really wanted to play “Thriller 2” that they suppressed the opposition. In any case, it seems that Steam’s status is now difficult to replace. If it weren’t for the recent “Thrilling Spacetime: Alex” and the upcoming “Absolute Force 2”, many people would have forgotten that Valve was actually originally It’s a game studio. I wonder how far Steam will develop in another 20 years?
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