The very first Steam user accounts are officially 20-years-old this week, and Valve is celebrating by handing out special digital badges to the oldest members of the community, featuring the storefront's original green aesthetic.

Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans.

Steam first opened its figurative doors all the way back in September 2003, and has since grown into the largest digital PC gaming storefront in the world, which is actively used by tens of millions of players each day.

“In case anyone’s curious about the odd colours, that’s the colour scheme for the original Steam UI when it first launched,” commented Redditor Penndrachen, referring to the badge’s army green colour scheme, which prompted a mixed reaction from players who remembered the platform’s earliest days. “I joined in the first six months,” lamented Affectionate-Memory4. “I feel ancient rn.”

  • Doubletwist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Mine doesn’t turn 20 until January. I decided to wait a bit to see if it would actually fail first.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I hated the idea of an installer to install programs that had their own installers. It seemed like a pointless extra program to me, so I resisted getting it until I wanted to play Counterstrike and Steam was the best, or maybe the only way to do that. So I broke down and opened a Steam account.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Counterstrike 2. But I guess I was misremembering, since I can’t find any reference to a CS2. I guess maybe it was CS 1.2. Shrug

          • EveningPancakes@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            You’re thinking about Counter Strike Source, which was on the new (at that point) Source engine. CS:Source is what came after CS 1.6

          • wheeldawgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            There’s never been a CS2. Other than a version of the name of the set of Adobe programs (ie, Photoshop CS2)

            CS 1.6 is the popular one. That version is about to turn 20 as well.

            You’re probably thinking of Counter Strike: Source, the name they gave it when they released it built on the Source engine.

            Then there was the current one, Global Offensive.

            However, there’s a new one about to be released that I think is still being called CS2. Not sure if that’s the final name or not, I haven’t been following it very closely. But I think it’s due to release this month. Or sometime soon.

              • wheeldawgEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                I saw at least 2, maybe 3 other comments mentioning CS2, so you’re not the only one. Unless you were talking about it elsewhere in these comments and that was you.

                I was beginning to think there was another OG stream game I hadn’t heard of.

    • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      I was a daily CounterStrike 1.6 player back then. I didn’t have a choice. Literally couldn’t play unless I converted over to a Steam account.

          • boothin@artemis.camp
            3·
            1 year ago

            My steam account was also created in November, so I’m going to say that is correct as CS was the reason I made mine too

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          CS is what got me to finally open a steam account too. I can’t remember if it was the only way to play, or if it was a considerably better way to play. Either way, everyone playing CS was on Steam so I finally opened an account.

      • wheeldawgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I played cs 1.6 at a few LAN parties, but didn’t own it. I didn’t actually join steam until after CS:S had been out a while. I actually bought a hard copy of it.