How long have you been a member?

seeing the badges page i noticed its been almost 9 years (Sep 18, 2003) that ive been part of the steam community.. somehow it feels longer. how long since you've joined steam?

you can check here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/insertusernamehere/badges

My primary account shows 7 years, even though I bought HL2 when it first came out. I remember the ATI event at Alcatraz...

since my birthday when i bought Counter Strike Source (May 31st 2007) so like, 5 years.

4 years. Unlocked: Jun 10, 2008 2:59am

Same, Sep 18, 2003 9:55pm - 8 Years of Service

2008, four years

Dec 30, 2004 4:49pm apparently.

Unlocked: Sep 12, 2003 4:18pm

I didn't get my own account until Orange Box came out, but my friends and I all used to share and use my neighbor's Steam account for Counter-Strike back when it was only Valve games.

Sep 15, 2003 12:46am

2006 at some point. Although am fairly sure I had an account at another point in time but can't remember.

Nov 5, 2003 5:51pm

August 27, 2004

Hopped on board the Half-Life 2 hype train a couple months before it released. Good times.

Who would have thought I would have bought 200+ other games on the platform since HL2's release. Crazy!

October 29, 2005. I had just turned ten that year, which I'm sure violates all sorts of TOS's.

12 Sep 2003 3:53pm

So, awhile.

Day 1. Sept 12, 2003.

April 8th, 2008. 4 years.

September 15, 2003

Zero days... wait no I think I do have a Steam account Zero games though.

March 2007 but my account had only half life 2 and kotor in it for several years before I realized Steam sales were going on.

2008. I downloaded it to buy Audiosurf after Jeff recommended it.

Jan 5, 2007 9:31pm, so a little over 5 1/2 years. By the way, this information was always available. It says Date Joined on the top part of your gameplay stats on your profile.

2006, I believe I bought Half Life 2, but it came with a whole crap load of other stuff.

May ‎18, ‎2012

:/

Jan 08, 2005 
 
But I only had Counter-Strike on it for about 3 years.

Current account is 1 year old.

September 12th 2003 was when Steam officially left beta... seems the earliest it starts tracking is the 15th, but I was using it before then because freaking Half-Life and the Counter-Strike 1.6 beta. Some undetermined time in 2002.

2009 is when i bought my first game (the orange box, obviously). before then i didn't have a computer that could play games.

Seven years on this account.  I forgot my previous account's information, but that was back when if you put in a CD key was already in use, you'd get a time-limited license to the game.  Good times.

March 21, 2006

Nov 20, 2008 8:06pm, so three years. My PC wasn't capable of running anything before that (I first got the Orange Box) and I was still playing PS2.

@1337W422102 said:

Seven years on this account. I forgot my previous account's information, but that was back when if you put in a CD key was already in use, you'd get a time-limited license to the game. Good times.

It was also back when putting in the CD key for Half-Life: Blue Shift got you every single one of Valve's releases.

6 may, 2004. I guess it was for CS 1.5 or something.

@1337W422102 said:

Seven years on this account. I forgot my previous account's information, but that was back when if you put in a CD key was already in use, you'd get a time-limited license to the game. Good times.

It was also back when putting in the CD key for Half-Life: Blue Shift got you every single one of Valve's releases.

November 2004

When did Half Life 2 Episode 1 come out?

Aug 12, 2004 9:47pm. Although I could have swore that I installed Steam along with Half-Life 2. Looks like I was wrong.

Edit : Man, to think that back in August of 2004, I was still a teen at my parent's house, watching porn and playing obscure PS2 games. Now i'm an adult with bills, a girlfriend, and I like to play golf. God dammit.

Nov 16, 2004 3:08pm for me

Sep 11, 2004 11:04am. 7 years ago and I haven't looked back!

3 years, November 2008. Makes sense, as I built my first gaming computer earlier that summer. Still running strong!

4 years. Feb 25th 2008. I didn't realize I had it so long. There was a time when I never used Steam other than to look at sales. I've since built a reasonable library and use it far more often. Feels more like 2 years since I started using Steam regularly.

December 5th, 2004.

Almost definitely coincided with HL2.

Man, that is a long fucking time.

Remember when everyone hated Steam? Now it's like Willie Wonka's factory for nerds.

I love you Gaben!

Last April. Its been a year since I've had a gaming worthy PC for the first time in years and its been amazing.

October 25, 2005.

7 years. November 19, 2004.

That would be for Half-Life 2. However, I've been using Steam a lot more in the past 4 years.

May 23rd 2012, I never really had a gaming capable PC, and still don't really but I wanted to get into PC gaming and thought a legendary Steam summer sale would be a good a place as any to start.

Unlocked: Sep 17, 2003 9:18pm. :-D

Unlocked: Sep 16, 2003 10:44am

It was a dark day for us to switch to 1.6 from glorious 1.5. Steam broke my OS like three times, the friends list was always broken, and every update just seemed to fuck it up more and more.

Now it's pretty much the first thing I install on a fresh copy of Windows.

7 years of service Aug 7, 2004 12:07pm

I got the Half-Life Platinum Collection a while before HL2 came out and activated it on Steam.