Where did WON.net go?
Channel: krazzy
Date: 06/10/2022

Before services like Steam streamlined automatic updates for games, users had to play on WON servers and manually update their games to play the likes of Half-Life Deathmatch, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic and a variety of other Half-Life mods.

It was glorious and a pain at the same time. This is the story of how VALVe dissolved WON.net through their mega hit gaming service; Steam.

I like to tell my stories from first person experience because I know I wasn't alone navigating old VALVe titles in frustration. Users like me were one of the incentives VALVe had to create Steam.

As much as people hated Steam it was a great service for bone-headed computer users like me. It catalogued all the games in one place, updated them and it also provided a steam friends list. It was a breath of fresh in the market place of online gaming.

I never truly got to experience the WON servers which I still intently wish I did to this day.

My discord - Kr@zZy's HAUZZ:
https://discord.gg/hJ2Yptg6hj

Last week's video:
Counter-Strike's Greatest Level Designer: NIPPER
https://youtu.be/HNWsiSwl8wE

Song (Sculpting a cliff in Blender (timelapse) - Blender Guru):
https://youtu.be/_LnYG5V4ULA

#counterstrike #valve #steam