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Nice anecdote. That is the same time and reason I joined Steam, although it was my cousin who told me about the free L4D2. Another difference from your tale is that my cousin is still active in the Steam community.

For me my first contact with Steam was when I bought the physical copy of Half-Life 2 in 2009 (it was quite cheap, so I could not resist). At the beginning I di not have many games, mainly Valve titles plus Stargate Resistance (shut down at the end of 2010, I think). But later on Steam sales and bundles helped to increase my library. Funnily enough, I don't remember exactly how I got to know about SG, but it was during my university years.

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I played Counter-Strike back then and Steam became mandatory to do so. On the day of Steam's release, I was on holiday and my little sister created the account to play some CS. That's why my account name is still my sister's email. :D

When they gave away the first Portal

Congrats on your first train!

Amusingly enough, my friend also convinced me to get Left 4 Dead 2 so we could play together. We played together once, he decided he didn't want to play L4D with me anymore (apparently I wasn't good enough), and we never played it again. I was pretty irritated for a while for wasting all that money.

I got Steam because it was required to play Half Life 2, back in 2004 or so. I started playing Half Life 2, and then a friend gave me a WoW beta key as a thanks for helping him with his computer, so I tried out WoW, got hooked, and started playing WoW with my friends when it came out. For the next 4 years, WoW was all that I played. Finally got burned out after 3+ years of being a guild leader in a raiding guild, retired from WoW, and came back to playing other PC games.

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I got steam from buying the new Xcom in gameshop and see the option that it needs steam to run.

Don't really know how I got all these games all of the sudden.

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Team Fortress 2 went free2play in 2011 and I was curious to try it. Next thing I know it's my most played game ever in terms of hours and the game to get me into MP games in general. I started buying games on Steam in 2012,but I only really started seriously getting into growing a collection and the bundle scene in 2014,maybe 2013even.

Well, I used to play my brother's games, so I decided to have some games to call my own. I bought Aliens vs Predator (2010) and started playing a lot of it in multiplayer. Then came along Modern Warfare 2, and my fate was sealed, Steam was meant to stay in my life.

Thank you for the ride :)

I've created Steam account in 2010 cause I needed it to play some cracked game xD

I apologize for not having an anecdote, so have a bump instead.

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Congrats to all the winners. Keys already send!

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