Sepharo wrote on Jan 2, 2020, 20:33:
Rag Doll Kung Fu was the first non-Valve game on Steam... showed up October 2005.
That seems inline with my post. My Steam join date is September 12, 2003 and I wasn't the first or anything.
Sepharo wrote on Jan 2, 2020, 20:33:
Steam server browsers worked just fine right at launch.
Friends list was added 2005ish, hard to find the exact timing.
Steam friends was before 2005, IIRC, but I could be wrong.
The server browser was hot garbage at launch. Sometimes it wouldn't see servers on LAN (other browsers could... you had to manually add it to Steam), it
never remembered favorites, filter options were sometimes ignored, it couldn't differentiate (in the early versions anyway) between bots and active users (even though that was a variable that servers readily offered) making those filters worthless, etc. We stuck with stuff like tASE and even Gamespy because Steam's was just bad.
”Not many people know I owned the first radio in Springfield. Weren’t much on the air then. Just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. “A,” he’d say. Then “B.” “C” would usually follow."