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Given the success of Valve's Steam digital distribution service, everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. But once upon a time, when Steam was still a gleam in Valve VP Doug Lombardi's eye, it was a tough sell. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Lombardi revealed that before building the service itself, Valve tried to sell the idea to some big-name companies like Microsoft and Yahoo...
Given the success of Valve's Steam digital distribution service, everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. But once upon a time, when Steam was still a gleam in Valve VP Doug Lombardi's eye, it was a tough sell. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Lombardi revealed that before building the service itself, Valve tried to sell the idea to some big-name companies like Microsoft and Yahoo...
