There is not much to specify for the question, its really simple: Which title is the first game you have purchased on Steam? Was it a good decision? How much did you pay? When was it and what device? You don’t have to answer all questions, this is just a fun discussion to have.
You can check your history: https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/
(I reply with my game too.)
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Counter Strike 1.6, I still remember the controversy.
Same. It was a steaming pile of shit back then. It got better
Half-life 2
Wow, so many Half-Life 2 as their first game. … wait a sec, is that a kbin account? I thought kbin died. It was one of the reasons I switched over to a Lemmy instance.
As I recall, you couldn’t get hl2 in stores when it first released. It was the vehicle that got people onto steam. It was a few years before they opened the platform up to other publishers.
You could, but it was the first game that needed steam to run it. You bought the game to make the install/download faster.
It’s Mbin now, but they kept the original URL.
I think it was Half Life 2… or possibly TES4: Oblivion? I’d played Morrowind before Oblivion and I remember thinking that the graphics were so realistic!
HL2: Episode One, in August 2006. My Steam account was actually created in August 2004, that was just the first time I gave them a credit card number. Probably the first time I actually had a credit card number to give them!
Half-life 2 ofc :)
Me too, I’m pretty sure. But iirc it was very different. I don’t think you could even buy other games yet
Weird several games are not on that list for me?
It goes back to 2013, but I used Steam on Linux way before that.
But in the beginning I had my games gifted to me because I didn’t have VISA.Steam for Linux was released 2013. You probably used the Windows version through WINE. Or maybe Linux version was in Beta before, I don’t remember the details. Some in the comments in this thread suggested that the purchase history doesn’t go back to the beginning.
Thinking about it a bit more, I now recall I had multiple steam clients installed in Wine to start them up with different Wine settings, because the games didn’t run with the same settings.
But to see my first game, I may have to ask my wife, because she had Visa before me.Weird, I must admit my memory is unclear on that.
On my list it says 5 Apr, 2012 Age of Empires: All in Wonder 13,49€
So if the Linux client didn’t come until 2013 I must have run it in Wine as you say. Because I’ve been running Linux since 2005, and I “only” dual booted for a couple of years.
It may have been my first Visa purchase then? Kind of embarrassing that I paid 13.49 Euro for a Microsoft game. 🙄 Especially since it became free to play soon after. 🤡Hey no shame in paying money for good games! … would I have said if I played it. I assume its good.^^ Usually if a paid game goes free to play, they often give some owners specials. Didn’t they do something? At the very least it was not expensive game, especially if it gone free to play not long after.
For the thing with Linux, there were presets to run Steam through WINE in tools similar to Lutris (not saying Lutris, but some tools making it easier to use WINE).
I didn’t play it very much, I suppose it was OK, but I think it was a huge failure for Microsoft. Maybe others did like me, only played it for a few days, and then lost interest.
I think we had Playonlinux back then. Before that I personally only used WineHQ and their recommended tweaks. So 100% manual. Goddam there were some weird settings for graphics that could be crucial. 😋 It was quite a chore to get anything to work back then.Yes, I was thinking of PlayOnLinux, just couldn’t remember. I never got into Steam over WINE, because WINE was always cumbersome to use for me. And I didn’t want bet my money on that. Lot of people did though, with various levels of success. Wish I was more brave!
I perfectly understand not caring for the hassle to get games top work back then.
I remember when the humble indie bundles were new, it was absolutely amazing to get a couple of games that were actually playable and fun. World of Goo was by far the best game I had played on Linux when that arrived.That reminds me, my favorite Linux game I played before Steam on Linux was an Open Source game Teeworlds. I don’t remember if I played anything proprietary on Linux at that time (besides emulation off course).
Half Life 2 obviously. My account age reflects that purchase, LOL.
So your account is legally allowed to drink. :p
I bet I will still need to prove that I’m old enough to access my games, though…
Civ V Complete for € 8,45 in 2016.
Given I clocked some 500ish hours it seems like a good deal.
Spec Ops: The Line $6.59 in 2015. Great game, I had been playing Team Fortress 2 for free for a while at the time. I do remember also getting some game keys included with hardware purchases prior to that as well.
Most of my PC gaming before steam was through CDs and I had a period in between CDs and digital copies where I was exclusively gaming on consoles.
Oh Spec Ops. I was there in Berlin, every week in their office to play Street Fighter after work. The game has some special place in my heart. I purchased it later on Steam too, because I played it on console first. The game is delisted on Steam, so good for us to have it in our library.
Looks like I bought Deus Ex GOTY, Human Revolution, and Arkham City. $50 according to that page. In 2013.
Civ 4.
2010 Torchlight, then Puzzle Quest three times, and then Terraria. Torchlight was for scratching the Diablo II itch, but it didn’t really do so for long. $20. Puzzle Quest was pretty addicting, so I gave two others their first hit. $1.50 for each one. Terraria was $10 and I’ve been playing it on and off for 15 years now.
Torchlight was my first steam game too! Got it at the end of 2009 during a Steam sale, 75% off.
Torchlight 2 was way better. I actually have far more time playing that than any Diablo game.
RWBY Grimm Eclypse lmao, definitely not worth the $15 I paid. Was really into RWBY at the time, I wanna say I bought it between seasons 3 and 4, but it might’ve been before S3, idk.
Apparently it was Arma 2 back in 2012 to play DayZ mod. I remember that I barely ever played vanilla Arma 2 until just before Arma 3 came out. It was always DayZ mod.
