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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen guser for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 12, 2003, the first version of Steam was officially launched, and today marks its 20th anniversary. According to data provided by SteamDB, officials have prepared their own commemorative badges for some early users. This badge uses a military green color scheme and echoes the original design of the Steam platform.

▲ SteamDB posts posts on X platform

▲ source SteamDB badge page V Society designed the Steam platform to facilitate the release of games such as CS and to provide anti-cheating support.

However, in an era when only 20% of American users had the Internet at home, the penetration rate of Steam was not high, the server of Steam was not good at that time, and many players who bought games were often unable to log in to the game because of network reasons. In addition, the frequent updates of Steam itself and its poor interface left a bad impression on players.

The "half Life 2" released by the V Society of PC Gamer2004 in PC Gamer2004 has successfully improved the wind reviews of Steam. On the one hand, the V Society has improved the interaction design between the server and the Steam platform, and on the other hand, with the increase of the number of users accessing the Internet, it has successfully changed the players' impression of Steam.

▲ source PC Gamer "Kung Fu Dolls" and "Darwinia" became the first non-V-Club games in the Steam store in 2005. In this way, Steam has finally changed from a game downloader and server browser to a real online game store.

▲ Image Source PC Gamer in 2007, Steam launched the search function, player scoring functions, such as "best-selling", "latest listing" and other screening mechanisms have greatly enhanced the usefulness of the store interface.

▲ Source PC Gamer in 2008, Steam added category browsing to the store interface and focused the store's home page on the latest games, allowing players to know the release time of their favorite games anytime, anywhere.

In ▲ 's Steam store in 2008, another year after Tuyuan web.archive.org, Steam added two screening options of "less than $5" and "less than $10", successfully opening the way for players to add one.

▲ 2009 Steam store, Tu Yuan web.archive.org2011 year, a considerable number of domestic players have access to the Steam platform through various channels, many friends of CTOnews.com should still remember the Steam home page design of this period. In this year, Steam tokens were also officially launched, and in the same year, creative workshops also joined the game, which made games such as GMOD (Gary Module) popular.

▲ 2011 Steam Store, Picture Source web.archive.org2012-2014, the Steam platform mainly made some details improvements and added features such as large screen mode, and also announced plans for SteamOS. At the end of the year, the platform introduced an exploration queue to form today's store interface.

▲ 2014 Steam store, Tuyuan web.archive.org2015 year, the Steam area converted to RMB settlement, many "big merchants" inventory instantly depreciated, triggering a round of game accessories sell-off.

▲ 2015 Steam Store, Picture Source web.archive.org2016-2019, Steam slightly adjusted the design language and added new privacy settings so that users can set their current activity status, game list, friend list, inventory, etc., to private, visible or public only to friends.

▲ 2018 Steam store, Tu Yuan web.archive.org2021 year, Steam steam platform online.

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▲ Today's Steam platform

In what year did my friends join the Steam platform?

Referenc

Wayback Machine (Steam platform History Page)

SteamDB Medal Database

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