Half-Life 2 Finally Activated

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.

Comments

Re:Don't buy HL2!!!

[ZeroExistenZ]

and the upcoming doom3

???

Personally I think that someone has still the right to decide him-, her- or itself what to do with ones own time.
This is a private sector too, NASA isn't. Games bring in the big monnies enabling you to just push your skills a bit further, and doing the things you dreamed about doing. -as in creating revolutionar games.

I can see how one could find more satisfaction in entertaining millions then thinking out ways / helping out to kill millions.

From Mexico

[ender1598]

Suprnova release in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

Anybody with early reviews/impressions??

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I got burned with Doom 3, don't want to make another $50 mistake. Is the game a resource hog, can the average system run it in XGA?

Re:No net connection

[Sj0]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

(the reason I'm using so many caps is because I AM yelling, you insufferable lameness filter! Go away!)

Re:No net connection

[RollingThunder]

Millions of gamers not online?

What an odd timewarp back to 1992 you're in.

Re:Finally some realistic humans

[brkello]

So you are making comments based on pictures and videos rather than actually playing the game. That's pretty ridiculous. It is pretty clear you are just bitter it isn't on Linux from your later comments. Seriously, if you don't intend to buy and play the game, why bother commenting. And to say they look like crap is pretty amazing...I'd like to see you do half as well.

Re:You are all sheep.

[Mant]

If it is just a bit of fun, then isn't that all you would lose in the unlikely event of Valve vanishing, with no patch to remove the one time authentication?

Even then, it would only apply to people reinstalling, not existing installations of the game.

Anyway, you make it sound like people are giving up some fundemetal human right or invasion of privacy. They aren't, just $50 and having to authenticate.

Re:Finally some realistic humans

[tr0p]

Of course, it doesn't actually matter that much to me. I'm not going to play it anyway - I use linux so I'm just going to stick to the copies of Doom 3 and Unreal Tournament 2004 that I bought and maybe play Half Life in the unlikely event that a linux port comes along.

LOLOLOLOLROFLMAO!@#$