Tag: history

  • Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC and trust

    Gabe Newell posted an interesting  message regarding VAC and more on reddit 2 days ago, check it out: “Trust is a critical part of a multiplayer game community – trust in the developer, trust in the system, and trust in the other players. Cheats are a negative sum game, where a minority benefits less than…

  • The history of Steam Unpowered (1€ ≠ $1)

    It all started in 2008. Valve introduced regional currencies in the Steam store, at first as a beta to join for volunteers only. Back then everyone thought that $1=1€ was just a simple mistake in the new script on the beta site, there were naturally a lot of posts concerning prices especially in the Euro…

  • Steam chat now supports history after nearly 10 years

    Everyone who’s using the Steam mobile app for Android already knows that Steam was capable of keeping the chat history on the device (or servers actually). People also wondered why the fuck isn’t this built-in in the desktop Steam client. Well since yesterday it is! You can now close those annoying chat windows you have…