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Orange Box In Stores Wednesday
Ars Technica is reporting on an announcement from Valve: the Orange Box will be in stores on Wednesday. For those folks who purchased the pack through Steam, all five games will be 'unlocked' just after midnight that day. If you're like me and already owned HL2 and HL2:Episode One, the 'giveaway keys' should be available at that time as well. "In our last bit of Orange Box news, Valve has been running a television commercial for the Orange Box. It had to have been hard to make all those different games look like one cohesive package, but the company did a great job. The Orange Box can't come soon enough."
After a post like that, I'm sure you'll have no shortage of friends.
Okay, Valve, hasn't HL2 been out long enough now, and haven't you made enough profit off of it, to allow us poor saps who simply wanted to actually BUY a copy in a store (instead of renting a copy through Steam) to do so?
My gaming machine has no Internet connection, and I am never going to "activate" software - you couldn't force me to do so at gunpoint.
I just want to buy a boxed game, install it on my home computer, and play it.
Hasn't enough time passed by now for you to make this simple functionality available to prospective "second-tier" purchasers like me?