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PayPalIt's Steam's birthday? Wow, I forgot, did you? To celebrate a little bit, Valve are giving you the chance to give them even more money by picking up a cheap Steam Deck.
The models that are being phased-out have been discounted until September 26th so you can grab:
- Steam Deck LCD 64GB with 15% off.
- Steam Deck LCD 512GB with 25% off.
Of course that's only while stocks last, and they're likely quite limited and will probably sell-out reasonably quickly, which they have done before. So if you've been really on the fence, this is your best chance. The 64GB paired up with a SSD upgrade is always a great choice. Although for the convenience of 512GB and the anti-glare screen, the higher model is a ridiculously good price with the sale.
See the sale on the Steam Deck store.
21 years of Steam huh? Wow. What's your favourite Steam related memory? Mine is obviously Steam coming to Linux, and trying to get it all working. What a wild ride.
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I was annoyed when humble bundle handed out steam keys for Duke Nukem 3D And Shadow Warrior instead the usual DRM-free downloads, as I had no idea what it was and was annoyed that I had to create an account, but eventually I did. And then I found out it was a huge shop with a lot of games... and many of them had Linux versions... and they had just released Superfrog HD... and Team17 was still alive... and a lot more of wtfisevenhappening moments that day. Of course I bought Superfrog right away and played it to the end, and fell in love with Steam. So that'd be my fav.
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21 years of Steam huh? Wow. What's your favourite Steam related memory? Mine is obviously Steam coming to Linux, and trying to get it all working. What a wild ride.
When I had installed Steam for Linux (during the beta time),
it "welcomed" me with: "unfasten your seat-belts".
(I guess I didn't have the right nvidia driver yet.)
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I think my best memory was quite recent. I'd just bought Helldivers 2, joined my mates on a co-op game and we had a blast. And then it struck me that I'd bought the game, hit "install" and then "play" and that was it. That was all I did. And this was normal. On Linux.
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I got Civilization V as a gift. Game was a physical copy, but it required Steam. As Civilization fan I didn't hesitate too much and installed Steam via Wine. Played quite lot of Civilization V after that.
Later the Linux port of the game arrived and I was bit surprised that everything worked (except the mods).
Later the Linux port of the game arrived and I was bit surprised that everything worked (except the mods).
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What's your favourite Steam related memory?I only started using Steam at the very end of 2021, after we already had things like Linux support and Proton (though this was all new to me at the time - when I'd last heard of Steam, it was still Windows-only), so I don't have a long list of favourite memories to draw from! That said, I've got three;
Firstly, experiencing Proton for the first time - it was like magic, and just worked! I don't think that the novelty of this has ever worn off.
Secondly, seeing how Super Bomberman R (a game with a very wonky PC port) got closer and closer to being fully playable on Linux over successive Proton versions, and testing it out with each Proton Experimental release, with the current one finally being the one that eliminates the last of the problems it had (not 8.0-5, which Valve assigned as its stable Proton version last year).
And last but not least, how, on the release-day for Super Bomberman R 2 (a year ago tomorrow, at the time of writing), it just worked under Proton, completely flawlessly, and I got to spend a free day completely immersed in it. That was the first time I'd seen the "day and date on Linux" thing with a game that I'd been looking forward to.
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Thank you Liam for the "heads up" on this Steam Deck sale!
I have never seriously considered purchasing a Steam Deck. The Steam Deck articles in GoL were interesting, but I only gave them a cursory glance. Then why, within five minutes after reading this article, did I clicked the "PURCHASE" button for a Steam Deck LCD 512GB? These 11 words are the reason:
I am very happy with my decision and cannot wait for my new Steam Deck to arrive!
Thanks again Liam!
I have never seriously considered purchasing a Steam Deck. The Steam Deck articles in GoL were interesting, but I only gave them a cursory glance. Then why, within five minutes after reading this article, did I clicked the "PURCHASE" button for a Steam Deck LCD 512GB? These 11 words are the reason:
...the higher model is a ridiculously good price with the sale.These words made me realize I absolutely had to a Steam Deck NOW!
I am very happy with my decision and cannot wait for my new Steam Deck to arrive!
Thanks again Liam!
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ElectricPrism Sep 12
Congratulations Valve & Steam & these communities too. The World is a better place because of you 
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Happy birthday, Steam!
TBH Steam has never been much more than a content delivery system in my eyes. However, I suppose no longer having to run it in wine to play games with it is my favourite Steam memory, and getting my first Steam Deck is the next favourite.
TBH Steam has never been much more than a content delivery system in my eyes. However, I suppose no longer having to run it in wine to play games with it is my favourite Steam memory, and getting my first Steam Deck is the next favourite.
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pleasereadthemanual Sep 13
Probably cool for non-Australians :)
Does playing Muv-Luv Alternative for the first time count? That is a Steam game.
21 years of Steam huh? Wow. What's your favourite Steam related memory?I've been using Steam for more than a decade, but I don't really have one.
Does playing Muv-Luv Alternative for the first time count? That is a Steam game.
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My favorite steam related memory is Potato ARG hype back when Portal 2 was about to come out.
A bunch of people in Killing Floor 1 collectively gathering together just absolutely ecstatic to look at a door and unweld it for a while to see one singular potato and going "WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?".
People genuinely playing any game valve tells them to for achievements just to get a whiff of the new game before launch. People literally decoding audio images from a portal 1 update that changed the radios when you moved them to hyper specific locations, being rewarded for going fully insane about easter eggs and collaborating as much as you see the community collaborate and speculate nowadays whenever Hideo Kojima releases a weird new trailer for a game with several scenes out of context.
We're probably never going to have anything like that ever again for a big release and that makes me sad, the art of the ARG is something pretty much only relegated to smaller projects and youtube analog horror these days, not big releases like what Valve did. I feel like if you tried to do it now, people are so accustomed to not having this that it'd probably go unnoticed, enough time has passed that people just don't expect things like that to happen anymore outside of the horror genre.
A bunch of people in Killing Floor 1 collectively gathering together just absolutely ecstatic to look at a door and unweld it for a while to see one singular potato and going "WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?".
People genuinely playing any game valve tells them to for achievements just to get a whiff of the new game before launch. People literally decoding audio images from a portal 1 update that changed the radios when you moved them to hyper specific locations, being rewarded for going fully insane about easter eggs and collaborating as much as you see the community collaborate and speculate nowadays whenever Hideo Kojima releases a weird new trailer for a game with several scenes out of context.
We're probably never going to have anything like that ever again for a big release and that makes me sad, the art of the ARG is something pretty much only relegated to smaller projects and youtube analog horror these days, not big releases like what Valve did. I feel like if you tried to do it now, people are so accustomed to not having this that it'd probably go unnoticed, enough time has passed that people just don't expect things like that to happen anymore outside of the horror genre.
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When the steam deck finally became available to buy in NZ \o/ ... oh wait.
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I remember when I got my Steam account, like 6 months after HL2 was released because I asked for Battle for the Middle-earth for Christmas instead of HL2. And when I got it I realized I could have used my old HL1 cd key to create a Steam account instead of waiting to get HL2. From those early Steam days I also remember getting excited to try the offline mode, It was great to play CS:CZ on my laptop.
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What's your favourite Steam related memory?
Although I have only been on Steam for 5 or so years now, my favorite memory would probably be discovering the existence of Proton. I hadn't fully switched to Linux due to me assuming none of the games I play would work as they didn't have native Linux ports.
I was very excited when I stumbled across protondb.com, and was very eager to ditch Windows (for the most part), if only the select few games I play on Windows would work on Linux, then I could finally move away from dual-booting.
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A friend nagged me to play Team Fortress 2 in 2008 with him, but initially i refused, because i did not want any DRM/Launcher thingy on my computer. After some weeks i gave it up, and here we are.
Happy Birthday, Steam! May you always stay nice to your followers!
Happy Birthday, Steam! May you always stay nice to your followers!
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And.. both sold out. Saw this and was just going to buy a 512 as an xmas gift for someone. But I guess not now. 
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And.. both sold out. Saw this and was just going to buy a 512 as an xmas gift for someone. But I guess not now.
Check again, they're in stock, at least for me. Probably different regions have different stocks. But maybe they replenished yours.
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What's your favourite Steam related memory?My Steam related memory was when I was attempting to play Diablo 3 with some people back then on a Macbook Pro but got lazy setting it up. From there, I forgotten all about it until I started redeeming some Humble Bundle games but even then, it wasn't enough to jump into Steam until the Steam Deck came along. Once the Steam Deck was released, I was one of those naysayers, thinking it was nothing more than a Switch wannabe but once I bought one out of curiosity, my attitude changed. Now, I love playing games on Steam with the Steam Deck and happy birthday to Steam
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buckysrevenge Sep 13
Creating a Steam account over 19 years ago so I could play Half-life 2 seemed like such an annoying thing, but Valve really has put so much effort into making the system work well for its customers and so many other game stores still haven't figured this out
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Mohandevir Sep 13
I created my Steam account in november of 2012(?), when Steam launched officially on Linux. I formatted my Windows drive and installed Linux on my i7-3770 coupled to a GTX650 with 1GB of VRAM... What a beast! Lol! In fact, I think I started on a Core 2 Duo E8400 and switched to the i7-3770 not long after... The amount of Linux supported games was in the forties, if my memory is right? I played a lot of Portal & Trine, when it started, then Half Life a little later. At that time, I bought all Linux games at the second they became available. What a ride since then!
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