It's my 9th Steam Anniversary today. I can hardly believe it's been nine years already since I first reluctantly signed up for a Steam account. All because I just wanted to play some Counter-Strike, but this Steam thingy was suddenly a non-optional nuisance that had to be dealt with first. Why would I want to keep my games on some kind of server? To... download? What? It didn't make any sense at all. Fast forward nine years and, well, I don't need to tell you...

Anyway, this calls for a celebration. And that means some giveaways are in order, and I think nine giveaways sounds about right.

I'm far too lazy (and stupid) to make some kind of elaborate puzzle or whatever, so what I'll do is (are you ready for this, you might want to take a seat and write this down...) link to the giveaways right here:

  1. Here's number one

  2. Here's number two

  3. Here's number three

  4. Here's number four

  5. Here's number five

  6. EDIT: Here's number six

  7. EDIT: Number seven was hidden in the source for a while. Here it is

  8. EDIT: Number eight is in this thread. Look for it :)

  9. EDIT: Here's number nine)

Yep, nothing too exciting I'm afraid, and these last ones aren't super shiny fancy titles, but they aren't bundle games either, so you might want to come back and check later :p

Also, feel free to share the reason you first made a Steam account. I'd like to hear your stories :)

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UPDATE:

Thanks to everyone who replied. I enjoyed reading your comments, even if I didn't reply to each single one. People have asked me why I asked entrants to comment on the giveaways. The answer is simple: I wanted to see if people would read and follow a simple request. You can see for yourself how that went.

ALL WINNERS HAVE BEEN ADDED ON STEAM. GIFTS WILL BE DELIVERED VIA STEAM CHAT/TRADE, SO PLEASE ACCEPT MY FRIEND REQUEST.

11 years ago*

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Dayum. Congratulations! I joined for the free Portal and TF2.

11 years ago
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Congratulations, private EE. You are dismissed now.

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congratulations!

11 years ago
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I like SG, the only place where people offer smth for their anniversaries

And congratz :)

11 years ago
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thank you!I joined when tf2 became free.

11 years ago
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When TF2 became F2P.

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Well, of course I made my Steam account to play Half Life 2. It wasn't since years later, when I finally got an ADSL flat-fee connection, that I really started to use it regurarly though. Not that a great story, I know... so, here, have an HADOUKEN!

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Congratulations, and thank you for all the giveaways... :)

No interesting story, got a video card with a Half-Life 2 key inside, but the game wasn't finished yet. Think it was good for all the other Valve stuff though, and eventually Half-Life 2 appeared in the account. Yay. :)

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Congratulations :)

11 years ago
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I joined because Portal 2 made me install steam :]

11 years ago
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Congratulations! I joined Steam when the Orange Box hit $9.99. I knew about the service before, but I was playing most of my games on discs before then.

11 years ago
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Thanks man!

11 years ago
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You're welcome, Mondocoffee.

11 years ago
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9 years ! Wow ! Congratulations mate :D

11 years ago
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Thanks, IRON :D.

11 years ago
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Congrats EE! <3

11 years ago
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Thanks Corey :).

11 years ago
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Gz and thx :)

11 years ago
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Thanks and congrats! I made my Steam account because I got Mafia 2, and it had to be installed via Steam :P

11 years ago
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Congratulations ee! :D

11 years ago
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Thanks Brandy :).

11 years ago
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I joined Steam because I wanted to stop being a pirate

11 years ago
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I want to suck up on steam when I'm applying for a job

11 years ago
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I joined Steam 1 year ago !!! Only for Dota2. :P And tbh, i was kinda like you, "You need to download some program, so you can download DOta?" hehe

And look at me now, 100+ actual games in my inventory ... O.O

11 years ago
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What, you didn't install Steam just to play Chess?! :)

11 years ago
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Oh, the memories!

Too bad Chess didn't survive...

11 years ago
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thanks for waybacking, for sure you may want to check the survey stats back then

11 years ago
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I didn't know how the site was in the past, that's awesome

11 years ago
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AMD and Intel at 47% and 53%, respectively, and 31% of screens still running at 1024 x 768. Nice.

11 years ago
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congrats! well, when steam appeared i had stopped gaming since some years, i was basically dealing with real life. many years later, when i was checking the scarce gaming possibilities of my macbook pro, i heard some steam thing was being ported and that some portal game was going to be free. in this way it started all (over again)

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Congratulations on the Steamversary, emotionengine.

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Closed 11 years ago by emotionengine.