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Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam | Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company on August 24, 1996. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

was adamant that it was account, not game-restricted

This used to be the case, which is probably why you thought that. They improved the feature a few years ago.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Ahhh makes sense. As I never really used it it vanished off my radar. And rarely things get better than worse 🥴