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Half-Life 2 Retail to Require Steam Activation

Posted by Zonk on from the open-the-gasket-to-let-out-the-good-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a recent Gamespy interview with Doug Lambardi it was revealed that the retail version of Half-Life 2 will require product activation. This isn't just restricted to multiplayer, you will have to create a Steam account and activate your retail purchase before you can even run single-player. "

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  1. Re:I have cancalled my Amazon order... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why in the hell would I cancel my order? Steam is pretty damn nice.

    For instance, this past week there were a number of server-exploits that would crash entire games for everyone on CS:S. They issued a fix that was downloaded and updated automatically before logging into the game. No hunting down the news. No digging around to find a website with the patch. No downloading. No updating. No screwing around. Simply clicked a button to play like normal and everything was handled for me.

    Seriously, having a system that handles automatic patching and such is great. I mean, what are you afraid that they're going to do, activate your webcam remotely and stream the live feed to the NSA, CIA and FBI?!

    You fuckers are WAY too paranoid. Just buy the god damn game and have fun and quit turning everything into a travesty.

  2. Re:Team Fortress 2? by colinramsay · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you really that stupid? TF2 will be *huge*, the fact that you don't like Valve will make no difference, believe it or not.

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