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Half Life 2 Retail Sales Hit 1.7 Million

Posted by Zonk on from the so-many-headcrabs! dept.

blueZhift writes "It looks like PC gaming is not dead yet! GamesIndustry.biz reports that retail sales of Valve's Half Life 2 have topped 1.7 million. There aren't any numbers available for online sales via Steam, but these are impressive numbers for any platform, console or PC."

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  1. Sorta... by raygundan · · Score: 4, Informative

    You have to get an "offline ticket" from the servers. The bug/problem right now is that if you don't know that Steam is down and leave your ethernet cable connected-- you'll get the "cannot connect to steam" message and your offline ticket will be erased. Which means that you can't play offline until you can get online to get your offline ticket renewed.

    Once you've seen the error message, it's too late, and you can't play online or offline until the servers come back up.

    And you can't just get a ticket and leave the cable unplugged forever, either-- the ticket expires on its own.

    They could fix this easily by simply not disabling the offline ticket until after the connection attempt is finished-- but right now, a failed attempt with you still connected to the internet will disable your game until the servers come back up.

    Terrible.