Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam: Part 2

BrainsVolpe writes "For those of us on Steam, we can continue our 'preloading'of Half-Life 2. This time around we'll be downloading 'the majority of the audio of Half-Life 2 in encrypted form.' Does this mean we'll be getting HL2 before September 30th? Only Valve knows for sure... sorta."

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I'm sorry

[krymsin01]

But I fail to see how this in anyway innovative, interesting, or even remotely cool. A bunch of people pay money to download something they can't use until they pay some more money to the publisher, am I getting this right?

Rip off...