I remember having to migrate from the WON system [0] run by Sierra (Half Life 1 publisher) to Steam, as Valve patched their games. This affected all the multiplayer mods, like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress.
At the time it seemed like an arbitrary forced-adoption strategy.
> "Those broadband users would only have to spend an hour or two downloading the few GB worth of preloaded data necessary for Half-Life 2, compared to practically an entire day needed for a dial-up download."
more like a week or a month. 56k was extremely slow.
I remember having to migrate from the WON system [0] run by Sierra (Half Life 1 publisher) to Steam, as Valve patched their games. This affected all the multiplayer mods, like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress.
At the time it seemed like an arbitrary forced-adoption strategy.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Opponent_Network
> "Those broadband users would only have to spend an hour or two downloading the few GB worth of preloaded data necessary for Half-Life 2, compared to practically an entire day needed for a dial-up download."
more like a week or a month. 56k was extremely slow.