Posted: 01-05-08 In: Steam By: DigiQ8 | (7) comments | Add your comments

Valve revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that they had approached Microsoft and Yahoo to develop Steam before deciding to develop it themselves. And both of them was like 'That's a million miles in the future...We can't help you.'". Steam now serves over 300 titles and hosts over 15 million accounts.

"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.'"

You can read the full interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi here.