No Half-Life 2 on Steam?

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Posted by Zonk on Monday September 20, 2004 @09:29AM from the think-of-the-children dept.

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?"

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Worth the wait. by planckscale · 2004-09-20 09:31 · Score: 0, Troll

HL2 is worth the wait, no matter all negative press, I believe it will be superior to Doom III. Gives me more time to buy a new vid card...
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1. Re:Worth the wait. by reynolds_john · 2004-09-20 09:51 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  I played the demo of Doom III this weekend, and all I can say is that it was a snooze.
  
  The graphics and sounds were indeed incredible, but the game experience was the same old tired hack-n-slash of old. If you still love the "find keys, bullets, and dodge monsters in dark rooms" from the 90's, you'll like it. Hopefully, this is what the designers wanted. I uninstalled it within a 1/2 hour, just not anything new for me.
  
  Call of Duty United Offensive on the other hand, resurrected my gaming experience with COD, and provided hours of fun single player, and a multiplayer experience that I won't soon get tired of. I'm hoping HL2 will provide the same experience.
just face facts... by steak · 2004-09-20 09:36 · Score: -1, Troll

hl2 is going the way of duke nukem forever your never ever ever going to get to play it. gordon freeman is dead and you'll never get to bash another head crab again.

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1. Re:just face facts... by Wedge1212 · 2004-09-20 09:37 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  but...but...but...mommy i want my half-life today!!! Bobby Jones from down the street has one and I need one today!!!!!! *WAAAAAAHAHAHA*
  
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Re:Onos by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 09:42 · Score: -1, Troll

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Steam sucks by Whammy666 · 2004-09-20 10:01 · Score: -1, Troll

Personally, I think it's great that Steam is (possibly) getting a good solid kick to the groin. I've had nothing but trouble with it. Plus, despite Valve's effort to paint Steam as a user feature, it's really nothing more than brute force DRM. It offers nothing in the way of user features that wasn't available to gamers already -- with the possible exception of getting patched automagically.
I suspect that VU is going to do their best to keep Steam from distributing HL2 since it's a significant revenue threat to VU and their retail distribution channels.

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As far as I am concerned by The+MESMERIC · 2004-09-20 10:02 · Score: 0, Troll

... Valve can eat shit and die.
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