Microsoft and Yahoo rejected Steam, says Valve

[Trevelyan]

"You know, we went around to Yahoo, Microsoft...and anybody who seemed like a likely candidate to build something like Steam," he explained.

"We basically had our feature list that we wanted. We wanted auto-updating, we wanted better anti-piracy, better anti-cheat, and selling the games over the wire was something we came up with later.

"We went around to everybody and asked 'Are you guys doing anything like this?' And everyone was like 'That's a million miles in the future...We can't help you.'"

Doug Lombardi

Here's the link from gamesindustry.biz

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/microsoft-and-yahoo-rejected-steam-says-valve

& the full interview http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/the-last-of-the-independents-


(I apologize if someone has posted elsewhere)

EDIT: er, perhaps this should go in the news section actually, sorry if i've made a boo-boo & you all miss it!

 

[Beerdude26]

Cool interview