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Half-Life 2 Finally Activated

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-a-video-game-apparently dept.

Thomas Scovell writes "After over half a decade of development, stolen source code debacle, a promised deadline that was missed by a year, and a feud between the developer and the publisher that is still in court, Half-Life 2 has finally started to activate for those who have purchased online via Steam online or who grabbed the boxed version at the retailers that let it slip early. Go play!" Reviews are available via Gamespot, Gamespy, HomeLAN Fed, and IGN.

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  1. well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duke Nukem Forever will be better !!

    ahem...

  2. Yeeeeehaaaaaa! by d2_m_viant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeeeeeehaaaaaa!

    So much for the rest of this college semester. Between this and Halo2, I'll be lucky if I even come in contact with a female during the next 3 months...

    1. Re:Yeeeeehaaaaaa! by thatJoshGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're posting to Slashdot dude, like there was a chance of that happening anyway.

    2. Re:Yeeeeehaaaaaa! by Kwaichang · · Score: 5, Funny

      So much for the rest of this college semester. Between this and Halo2, I'll be lucky if I even come in contact with a female during the next 3 months... Good to see you have your priorities straight.

    3. Re:Yeeeeehaaaaaa! by Sj0 · · Score: 4, Funny


      DDR man, DDR gets the chicks.

      Yeah, but then their mother goes "What are you doing to my 9 year old daughter!" and it's a whole mess...

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      It's been a long time.
  3. Re:No net connection by RonnyJ · · Score: 5, Funny
    So this game is unplayable if i have no internet connection ?

    I'm not quite sure how you've got first post then ;)

  4. Re:timezone by DigitumDei · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem with working at an IT company, is all the managers know HL2 just got released.

    Time to take some leave I think. :)

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    East Coast Brewers
  5. Finally by JakeD409 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel like I am truly alive for the first time ever. It's like my life itself was finally fully activated at midnight PST on November 16th, 2004. Infanthood, toddlerhood, preschool, elementary school, middle school, puberty, high school, these were just pre-loads.

  6. Opening.... by fishmasta · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the opening train ride took less than 10 minutes! Thank you, Valve!

    1. Re:Opening.... by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry - I'm sure my brother will find a way to fall off the first tram ride without saving.

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      It would be cool if it didn't suck.
  7. Re:But what about install speeds? by rootofevil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even Emacs Lite

    i think i found your problem...
    try using vi or pico and save approximately 100% of those resources ;-)

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    turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
  8. Why lord why... by FluffyPanda · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...did they have to release HL2 on my girlfriend's birthday.

    Now I'll be looking over a candle in a romantic restaurant picturing gordon freeman's beardy mug.

    I wonder if macdonalds would do...

  9. Re:Valve Deserves an Appaluse by Zorilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Id Software took great pride with their maps. Each black pixel was meticulously rendered by hand.

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    It would be cool if it didn't suck.
  10. Re:timezone by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Funny


    tell 'em you shit your pants, no-one ever wants to check that one.

    sadly I can verify that

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  11. WHAT A COINCIDENCE! by JollyFinn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now it has taken ALMOST 2 hours since this came online, and no other stories in slashdot coming. Is this coincidence, or is there some correlation between those too.

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    Emacs is good operating system, but it has one flaw: Its text editor could be better.
  12. Re:timezone by omicronish · · Score: 4, Funny

    6 more hours at work before I can get home. This is going to be the slowest day ever...

    Dude, 6 hours is nothing. I accidentally marked the wrong date on my calendar for Half-Life release, and spent Sunday afternoon anticipating it. Midnight came and I was ready to burst, but then I was wondering why it wasn't activated. Then I noticed I was off by 24 hours ;(

  13. Re:Awesome tech support by TheLoneDanger · · Score: 4, Funny

    I practically had Valve guys fighting over who could help me fix the problem first.

    Valve's next press release: Valve regretfully announces that Team Fortress 2 has again been delayed due to injuries sustained by our techs during a massive free-for-all brawl. "Bob totally knew that glitch that guy was experiencing with his Gefore 6400 was mine, man. He already got the one with the problem that guy in Iowa had with the crashing during installation, and that was one sweet bug to fix. Bastard."

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    "But I trust in the people's capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion." -Oscar Olivera
  14. Re:Call me an idiot, but... by Sj0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's because ever since that creepy mannequin arm in Tresspasser, I've yearned to be able to bitchsmack dinosaurs with more and more realistic physics!

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    It's been a long time.
  15. Re:Activation went off without a hitch by Mr.Ned · · Score: 4, Funny

    "this is a 1.5 year old laptop"

    That laptop was pretty new when the game was supposed to be released.

  16. Re:The 3 way battle: Halo, Doom, HL by Idarubicin · · Score: 4, Funny
    And by the way, has anyone noticed the excessive use of exploding barrels yet? It's like City 17 is a giant nitro plant and they can't seem to keep track of the product.

    Barrels (and their sister containers, the crates) are an essential part of any FPS.

    One of the canonical pieces of FPS review literature is the Crate Review System, which measures the time in game until the appearance of the first crate or barrel (StC: Start to Crate).

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    ~Idarubicin
  17. Re:Valve Deserves an Appaluse by CausticPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone who thinks the levels in Doom 3 were "slapped together" to show off the engine should spend a little time designing levels.

    I agree. id meticulously designed one map, and then used it for the first 20 levels of the game.

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    -CausticPuppy "Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
  18. Hahahaha by NitroWolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hahahaha Steam is so slashdotted...

    Oh wait... maybe it's not slashdot, I suppose it's *MAYBE* possible it's the million people trying to download multimegabyte files to activate HL2?

    Naaa... gotta be slashdot.