Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.
Content of the “Then” column:
- Double-click GAME.exe
- Play game
Content of the “Now” column:
- Launch Steam
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Steam updates
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Steam opens
- Close Steam’s ad window
- Select Game
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Game launcher starts
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Game launcher launches Game launcher updater
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Ok
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Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?
- No
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Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes, sell my soul
- Start game
- Skip vendor intro
- Skip vendor intro #2
- Skip vendor intro #3
- Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
- Skip opening cutscene
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Main menu opens
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Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?
- No
- Press play.
- Play game.
Made by someone who wasn’t around back then. Getting games to run was just as if not more tedious than it is now.
I used to have the irq of my sound blaster 16 memorised because you need to put it in for every game.
Legitimately why I still pirate some games that I purchase through Steam.
The pirated copy runs better 95% of the time, and people can’t even argue that you’re meaningfully stealing because you already own access to the same exact game.
well at least I don’t have to keep the CD in the CD Drive to actually play the game now
Don’t forget you gotta update your driver’s too before even beginning “Launch Steam”
