Forum Overview :: Half-Life II ??? :: Prescient Valve/Steam timeline

[quote name="foolio"][quote name="laudablepuss"]<a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041130-4427.html">A blow to the little guy?</a>/irony Given that Steam is a crapware obstruction to me enjoying the game I purchased, this ruling makes me sad. Oh well.[/quote] 12/1/2004 - Valve given legal right to use crappy authentication system to make cybercafes PAY UP. Starts billing cybercafes for site licenses or whatever other crappy scheme to make them pay up, more. 12/3/2004 - Cracker group releases "EZ LAN PAK" DVD ISO for installing HL2/CS:S onto cybercafes everywhere in Asia, South America, Eastern Europe, communist China and socialist Canada, and reformed socialist Europe. 12/5/2004 - Separate cracker group creates "EZ Cracked Steam Server PAK" - allows cracked clients to connect to this modified server variant. Q1 2005 - Unrelated - every cybercafe in USA goes out of business, due to awful business model. Not related to Steam/Valve. ~2057 - OMM updates. Arnold Schwartzenegger clone (cloned on US soil) elected President.[/quote]