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[Flying Dice]

Hoo boy, my first use of steam was when I finally got the PC version of the Orange Box in 2009. My first purchase was CS:S a few months later.

[Dwemeral]

The X-Com series Pack.

[Lukewarm]

I bought a copy of Team Fortress 2 off of Ebay, that started me on steam.

[crazysheep]

Huh so apparently I've been a Steam member for 2 whole years before I actually downloaded Steam itself to play Dota 2.

[monk12]

On January 12th, 2009 I activated my retail copy of the Orange Box to celebrate my new laptop, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the bloated, somewhat crashy DRM I was forced to run while playing Portal. I didn't buy anything solely through Steam until May 8th of 2010 when I picked up Audiosurf for $9.99, and it wasn't until December of that year that I started actually thinking "Okay, Steam isn't so bad" (hooray Christmas sales.)

Also this thread is worth it just for telling me about this page. Now I know that the ten dollars I invested in Audiosurf wound up being worth 60 hours of play, or ~.17 DpH of Funtimes. It's still a game I go back to every time I get a new album.

For the record, the most efficient Funtimes I've gotten out of a Steam Purchase goes to FTL: Faster than Light, whose initial investment of $5.99 gave me 123 hours of enjoyment for about .049 DpH of Funtimes. For comparison, the next closest would be Civ IV Complete at .1379 DpH (though in Civ's defense, I played my non-steam copy for years before I picked up the complete edition as part of a Sid Meier bundle, which skews both time invested and how much I paid for just Civ.)

[Neyvn]

My first Steam Purchase wasn't technically a Purchase from Steam...
I bought, I believe, "Empire Earth" or something like that in Physical Form from EBGames. Excited to play it when I got home, I hurriedly stuffed the CD into my Computer and begin the installa..t...ion?? WTF? Please connect to Steam to install this game!!! WHAT THE FUCK, I installed Steam for the first time in my life, something that I had been avoiding cause I know myself and how quickly I will spend my money on random games... (Check my Steam Gauge here)

So I spend a few minutes looking at Steam DOWNLOADING Empire Earth, I was like WTFH!!! I have the PHYSICAL DISC RIGHT HERE! WHY ARE YOU DOWNLOADING IT!!!. So I spent another 3 hours searching the net to find out that I could install it from the Disc but I had to go through so much work to do so, didn't matter cause at that time my download speed would have had me playing the game in 3 days. So yeah...

My first Game on Steam was a Game that I bought from a Physical Game Store. Go figure...

[Lectorog]

For the record, the most efficient Funtimes I've gotten out of a Steam Purchase goes to FTL: Faster than Light, whose initial investment of $5.99 gave me 123 hours of enjoyment for about .049 DpH of Funtimes.

Hehe. My $2.50 purchase and 493 hours in The Binding of Isaac give me .0051 DpH. Only the TF2 players have me beat.

[umiman]

For the record, the most efficient Funtimes I've gotten out of a Steam Purchase goes to FTL: Faster than Light, whose initial investment of $5.99 gave me 123 hours of enjoyment for about .049 DpH of Funtimes. For comparison, the next closest would be Civ IV Complete at .1379 DpH (though in Civ's defense, I played my non-steam copy for years before I picked up the complete edition as part of a Sid Meier bundle, which skews both time invested and how much I paid for just Civ.)

My DpH for Dota 2 is 0.01. I spent $15 and have played 900 hours.

[Zangi]

I was gifted L4D2... it doesn't say when exactly, but I'm guesstimating it was around 10/2010, probably earlier.  I may have still been stuck in my old ways and played L4D on the 360 for longer.  Getting used to FPS on the PC and then getting mediocre/decent at it is a pain.
I would probably have eventually gone over to Steam myself sometime after all the L4D campaigns were finally ported over to L4D2 in the PC version. 
I'm +400 hours in L4D2 on Steam. That was after having already put 100s of hours in both L4D and L4D2 on the 360.

Hurr Durr, my DpH for L4D2 is 0.00000.  I spent nothing on it. ... Technically.

[highzealot]

First purchase was TF2 + Garry's Mod in December 25 2010 though the first game I got was Portal during the limited time free thing on May 13 2010. I joined Steam in September 10 2009.

[Knight of Fools]

I got the Orange Box in October 2008. My first digital Steam purchase was Assassin's Creed II, several years after I bought the Orange Box.

[hexedmagica]

X-COM pack, January 2011, I think.

[Marceline]

I got Garry's Mod in a bundle with TF2 back in 2009. Good times

[Silent_Thunder]

Half Life 2.

Do i win?

[Mongol13524]

I bought Civilization 5 on release day (September 21, 2010). I picked up my copy the minute the Gamestop opened it's shutters, went home to install it, and I discovered that I needed to register for some sort of gaming service that looked like it was trying to be cool to play. I made an account and decided to check out the rest of this thing I just installed. I remember just seeing lots of $60 games that exist only on your hard drive and account and deciding the whole digital distribution thing wasn't for me.

Then a Steam Christmas Sale happened.


I actually installed it some time before that to play Moonbase Alpha, a free game NASA made that was only available on Steam. It didn't work for some reason so I uninstalled and forgot about it until Civ 5.