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    Talis12

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    #1  Edited By Talis12

    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

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    #2  Edited By Zelyre

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

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    #3  Edited By bed
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    #4  Edited By JJOR64

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

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    #5  Edited By ESREVER

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

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    #6  Edited By dillonwerner

    2008, four years

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    #7  Edited By CL60

    Dec 30, 2004 4:49pm apparently.

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    #8  Edited By blueduck

    Unlocked: Sep 12, 2003 4:18pm

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    #9  Edited By ajamafalous

    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.

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    #10  Edited By Demokk

    Sep 15, 2003 12:46am

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    #11  Edited By Mijati

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

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    #12  Edited By TheHT

    Nov 5, 2003 5:51pm

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    #13  Edited By Schmollian

    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!

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    #14  Edited By Jrad

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

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    #15  Edited By mmzOne

    12 Sep 2003 3:53pm

    So, awhile.

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    #16  Edited By subject2change

    Day 1. Sept 12, 2003.

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    #17  Edited By GJSmitty

    April 8th, 2008. 4 years.

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    #18  Edited By belaraphon

    September 15, 2003

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    #19  Edited By AngelN7

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

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    #20  Edited By uhtaree

    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.

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    #21  Edited By hatking

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

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    #22  Edited By shinboy630

    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.

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    #23  Edited By Dagbiker

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

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    #24  Edited By MOAB

    May ‎18, ‎2012

    :/

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    #25  Edited By Jack268

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

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    #26  Edited By Danteveli

    Current account is 1 year old.

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    #27  Edited By AndrewB

    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.

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    #28  Edited By captain_clayman

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

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    #29  Edited By 1337W422102

    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.

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    #30  Edited By myniceicelife

    March 21, 2006

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    #31  Edited By valrog

    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.

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    #32  Edited By AndrewB

    @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.

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    #33  Edited By RIDEBIRD

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

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    #34  Edited By 1337W422102
    @AndrewB said:

    @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.

    Yeah, that was it!  It wasn't just Blue Shift, though.  I put in my older brother's friend's Half-Life 1 launch edition CD key and got all of Valve's stuff.  Played a lot of Half-Life and Counter-Strike back then.  I think the deal was you would have the games in your account, but only for a year, or something like that.  When I bought my own copies, I made a new account, and I don't think I've logged into the old one since for anything but troubleshooting once.
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    #35  Edited By Marz

    November 2004

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    #36  Edited By Bocam

    When did Half Life 2 Episode 1 come out?

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    #37  Edited By Klei

    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.

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    #38  Edited By samurai1000

    Nov 16, 2004 3:08pm for me

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    #39  Edited By EarlessShrimp

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

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    #40  Edited By butano

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

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    #41  Edited By SuperWristBands

    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.

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    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!

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    #43  Edited By musubi

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

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    #44  Edited By BestUsernameEver

    October 25, 2005.

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    #45  Edited By Sanaj

    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.

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    #46  Edited By sean2206

    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.

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

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    #48  Edited By wolf_blitzer85

    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.

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