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No Half-Life 2 on Steam?
Karl the Pagan writes "Following on the heels of a previous Steam-related story, Vivendi Universal may block Half-Life 2 distribution via Steam. Additional motions can be filed until November 18th, but since Sierra/VU have final QA approval on the HL2 gold is it possible they could delay the game until after the court decides on these motions?"
it's a court battle that won't even start before HL2 is released (if it's released soon...)...
Also, they've already said they are releasing it on Steam regardless of this case.
read here for more:
article on bluesnews.com
For those who aren't familiar with an "Onos", it is a rather large rhinoceros-like creature from the HL1 mod natural selection.
Sort of amusing. I wonder if Id's getting a kickback from ATI, Nvidia, etc. :)
the point in steam would be that they would be getting all the money, and not having to give VU a cut. that's what why VU would block it if it can.
valve's been piss poor to deliver anything and lusting over the collecting the fees from the cybercafes.
they're pissing on their feet though, with the hl key system horribly sucking too(it's not really that uncommon that you lose your key to someone running some keygen, leading into some major suckery to get it back, in some cases people have bought the game still in wrappers and went home for some cs and noticed that the key was already in use).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Ah, I feel sorry for the saps that bought the repackaged cards, thinking they're brand new.
Yes, if you go the the ATI site listed on the card you have the option to have a boxed version shipped to you instead.
Also of interest the ATI voucher gives you the a bundle of the original half-life as well as the expansions made by valve.
If you activate with steam you can download the whole bundle and play it right away. And well pre-load HL2 and hope it gets unlocked some day.
EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
Sierra does not host the Steam master server(s)
Valve has them under their belts, so if Sierra goes belly up, it would become a national holiday, and i'd still be playing my TFC!
SCREW YOU VU AND SIERRA!
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The serial code for Half-Life is 14 digits, meaning a total of 289.254.654.976 possible combinations.. giving that the game has sold something like 20 million copies, that would turn out to try at least 20.000 keys before hitting one successful.. and as far as i know, no key generators checked with the WON network, so you'd just have to try (and that takes at least 15 seconds)..
No, most keys that people experienced that already were in use, were because of a handful of different things:
1. sloppy caretaking of covers etc on local LANs
2. getting their computers exploited (there were several worms afaik that stole cdkeys)
3. people writing down serial keys in stores (many stores used to have such things on display)
4. employees at mentioned stores, also writing down and supplying keys to friends
5. etc etc etc
The keygens were useless.
And Steam is the best thing to happen to Valve since Counter-Strike.
mats
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TinyURL link.
Gotta love content management systems with their inscrutable query strings..
What on earth are you talking about. Halo for the Mac has been out for ages.
It's a 13 digit number (including two dashes) that must be divisible by 3 (I think the algorythm became a bit more complex in later patches, but you could just punch in a series of 3s with the older versions, works for Quake 3 too).
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