Dryspace...I read one of your comments on a Starfield post...

I just turned 70...amazing really...thought I would be Dead by now the way I lived my Life...so far...LOL

Built my 1st DOS Gaming system in 1992...Built my 1st Windows Gaming system in 1995...

Won two world wide Modding Contests...EA Games for best Mission for Zero Hour in 2006

I looked at your Profile and saw you have about the taste in Games...My Skyrim and Fallout 4 are modded to the max...my Fallout 4 is 182 Gigs on Disk...Skyrim is about the same size modded.

Games keep you young...and your Brain Cells active...plus...living in your own reality beats the crap out of our current reality...When I go...bury me with my Gaming Laptap on my chest

Keep Gaming Bud

Gonzo

Well, yeah, that's basically what I mean --- having to have an account and connect to the Web.

I downloaded Steam in order to play the Half-Life 2 demo in 2008.

I don’t think I thought about it that much back then. I was mainly annoyed that I had to install the launcher and connect to the internet. It was the only steam game I had for a long time until pc publishers pretty much went digital in 2010/11 ish.

Were you annoyed at having to install Web DRM, or did it not matter to you?

@Dryspace. Yep. I got it in November 2004 with HL2. I was 26 or so.

Nineteen years of service? You must have installed Steam specifically in order to play Half-Life 2 when it came out.