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I_Stay_Noided posted...

i used to have a 3 digit steam id but i have no idea what the email address on the account is :/

I lost my 4 digit. <.<
Was a kid, didn't have a credit card and bought it from a guy for like 10.
Had CS and maybe 20ish more games on it.
But it was an account from a CS server hosting site and when it got shut down, valve closed the accounts.
Since I didn't have any CD keys from it, I never got it back.

My current account is from 2008.

Highwind07 posted...

Revolutionized the genre or the Esports scene?

I mean developers used the Quake engine for a while if that counted.

As I said, quake is my second favorite FPS game series, but it never reached it's full potential.
And during the years of peak CS tournaments went from players sleeping on the floors and in their cars to them being professionals that earn a lot of money by playing video-games. Prizes also massively increased.
No other game accomplished that. Maybe starcraft in Korea, didn't really follow it that much at the time.

If it wasn't for CS, Valve certainly wouldn't have made Steam just for HL 1 and 2. We're looking at a completely different PC gaming history then.
Would someone else created a platform? Probably. Would it be so popular? Probably not.