I was pissed off when HL2 required installing Steam.
I didn’t know that was the least awful variant of this particular affront.
Don’t tell me ‘but now there’s bugfixes!’ like I never updated HL1 with bare executables. Fuckin’ Doom had multiple relevant versions. They thought 1.666 would nail it down… and then grudgingly released 1.7 a month later.
I was pissed off when HL2 required installing Steam.
I didn’t know that was the least awful variant of this particular affront.
Don’t tell me ‘but now there’s bugfixes!’ like I never updated HL1 with bare executables. Fuckin’ Doom had multiple relevant versions. They thought 1.666 would nail it down… and then grudgingly released 1.7 a month later.