What was your first game purchased on Steam?

[_Neptunno_]

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Pues eso, estaría genial que comentéis cual fue vuestro primer juego comprado en Steam, un poco a modo de cotilleo “digital”
Lo único es que seguro que a más de uno le pasaría como a mí, que compraría inicialmente juegos físicos y luego lo añades a la cuenta de Steam y no sale en el historial de compras. Sé que mi primer juego fue el Day of Defeat Source que me compré en la tienda Game (por entonces la tienda era Gamestop, si no recuerdo mal), posteriormente compré otra copia del juego para mi hermano y el siguiente juego fue el Counter Strike Anthology. Luego compré el The Orange Box y The Team Fortress 2. Y por último, fue un regalo que me hicieron, Portal 2.
Todos esos juegos fueron los que tuve desde 2006, que es cuando creé mi cuenta, hasta diciembre de 2011 que es cuando hice la primera compra en Steam digital…y a partir de ese momento no fue más que un comprar y comprar
Resumiendo, que me enrollo cosa mala jajaja:

1ª compra “física”: Dead of Defeat Source, en 2006.
1ª compra digital: Metro 2033, en 2011.

Saludos!!
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P.D: Para ver el historial de compras solo tenéis que hacer clic en vuestro Nick (derecha-parte superior) y dirigiros a detalle de cuenta, historial de compras.

[cobito]

Back then I was really into the Half-Life world and followed all the news very closely. I participated in the first Steam betas before its official launch and, of course, the first game I added to my account was my physical copy of Half-Life. I have to say that at that time I didn't like the idea but I guess in the end, one gets used to it. It's also true that the topic has improved a lot since then.

In its early days, Steam was nothing more than a platform to manage Valve's games where tools like a server browser and that kind of thing were included. In fact, to add a game, you had to tell it the path of the executable. It also had a tool that did a recursive search through the entire hard drive. The thing about becoming a store I think came a few months later (I would dare to say, it debuted with the pre-purchase of HL2).

As can be read on Wikipedia, the first official version of Steam is from September 12, 2003, just the day Counter-Strike 1.6 was published and which, if I remember correctly, was the first version of Counter-Strike to require Steam to play. So for conservatives like me, we had to go through the hoop. As a tangential note to the topic, CS 1.6 was the last version based on Half-Life 1 before CS:Source came out.

It seems that the people at Valve did not record the account creation date during the beta, so the creation date of my first account is officially September 12, 2003 (day of the official launch of the platform):

In this account I only have Half-Life along with its most popular mods: Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic and some more (which were completely free at that time). In addition, for some reason, they gave me Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Opossing Force.

I created that first account with an email from Navegalia (the provider for RTB connections from Airtel, which was the one I used at that time) and for some reason, my username has @navegalia.com. As I didn't like that, I created another account whose first game was (guess what?), a physical copy of Half-Life 2.

I created this second account on November 16, 2004, which coincides with the release date of Half-Life 2. I think it's important to emphasize that at that time I had an almost obsessive fascination with this saga, so I reserved the game at a Mail Center and that same morning I was registering it on Steam. And it turns out that even though I had the physical copy, it was necessary to register it on Steam.

This activation process received a lot of criticism at the time for the need to have an Internet connection to play offline. Let's remember that in 2004 broadband connections were still becoming popular and we were coming from a completely different consumption paradigm, where you bought your physical copy and used it as you wanted. Today it is completely normal to need the Internet to play, simply because the game has to be downloaded somehow. But the requirement of Half-Life 2 to need activation by Internet was a shock for many. It was incomprehensible given that you had the game on the DVD although, with hindsight, now it is perfectly understood the strategy. I believe it was the first time this happened in the world of games.

What was the question? Ah, yes, my first game bought on Steam. Well, in this account I have dozens of games, many of them given away, although it seems that the first game I bought from the platform was Age of Empires II in 2015.

[krampak]

Well, my first one is as follows (I didn't even remember it):
Purchased: Sep 9, 2011 @ 1:34pm
Dead Island (RoW) - 49,99€

[Yorus]

Few purchases have I made, to be honest, and some of them quite peculiar, like the first one:

New Star Soccer 5 - 13 Oct 2012 - €11.99

[kynes]

My first purchase in the steam store was the bundle of the two left for dead:

3 DIC 2012 a las 20:16
Left 4 Dead Bundle - 5,24€

In terms of the total number of games, I think my digital diorama syndrome is getting a bit out of hand:

I must say in my defense that very few are bought, most are given away on websites like steamgifts and similar.

[_Neptunno_]

@kynes said in What was your first game bought on Steam?:

My first purchase in the Steam store was the bundle of the two Left for Dead:

DEC 3, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Left 4 Dead Bundle - €5.24

As for the total number of games, I think my digital Diogenes syndrome is getting a bit out of hand:

I must say in my defense that very few are bought, most are given away on sites like SteamGifts and similar.

I loved the "Professional Stacker"
I'm sure I've spent more with my 245 games, not counting the ones I have on Origin and Epic Store (from here I have a lot of free ones... not to say all but 1 or 2!!). But it's a cost I've always enjoyed... even if I don't have the time to play them all.

Regards!!

[Fassou]

My first purchase on STEAM:

I wasn't attracted to this way of having games, but I suppose that by then I had already signed a mortgage, I had lost my fear of everything

Salu2! Jugones!

[_Neptunno_]

@fassou said in What was your first game bought on Steam?:

My first purchase on STEAM:

I wasn't used to this way of having games, but I guess that by then I had already signed a mortgage, so I had lost my fear of everything

Cheers! Gamers!

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and METRO 2033, of course I didn't expect anything less from you I understand you perfectly, I think those of us who are old school didn't really like this way of having games.
What I find curious is that many of us started buying digital games on Steam between 2011-2012, possibly the platform's boom with offers and such. Sure, some of us started earlier with physical games that we moved to the library, but that detail I observe is curious.

Regards!!

[Fassou]

Several times I was tempted to buy the Orange box to give as a gift, but the goat always runs away into the woods and it had to be the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy and its cousin Metro 2033. It was inevitable

[amd125]

Left 4 dead 2 came out in 2011, but I had another account, I think it was with Counter, and that account is from 15 years ago or more.

Anyway, it's a great game to start the current account. I just looked at it and I haven't played it since 2019. I need to reinstall it, because I think it's very fun, only now I play (although I play very little) Killing floor 2 which, although it's not the same, it's somewhat similar.