Published on: 2025-05-30 11:16:00
Burned: Valve's founding chief marketing officer, Monica Harrington, recently shared her account of how the company became the leading provider of digital PC games. Harrington pushed for stricter authentication measures after discovering how young players were more than willing to pirate their games. Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased from the company's history despite her contribution alongside Gabe Newe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 17:16:04
Back in 2004, the launch of Half-Life 2 would help launch Steam on the path to eventually becoming the de facto digital rights management (DRM) system for the vast majority of PC games. But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to the purchase of a new CD-ROM burner. PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week'
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