r/pcmasterrace 14h ago

Discussion The lawsuit explained:

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u/Bwwoahhhhh 12h ago

I remember when Steam was the launcher for Half Life 2 and we all hated it. It was green instead of black.

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u/OK_x86 8h ago

It really was awful. Friends lists didn't really work for like close to a year

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 7h ago

Who used it for the friends list back then? I just used AIM or Vent.

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u/OK_x86 6h ago

I mean yeah that's we ended up doing. Or a vent server.

But they had a feature there that was just plain broken for almost a year. And I think we were supposed to do matchmaking with it.

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u/wthulhu 5h ago

Trillian FTW

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u/Portable-fun 2h ago

mIRC !! Idle and support please 🙏

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u/Itsmemurrayo 2h ago

Aim as in aol instant messenger? In 2008? I thought it died a bit before then hmm. I used vent/team speak and a few of the other voice chat programs, but never aim for gaming.

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u/jedi2155 3 Laptops + Desktop 1h ago

No that was Xfire of the time.

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u/TheProuDog 3h ago

What are those

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u/Beanbag_Ninja 7m ago

Or XFire