Everyone who is worried about VALVe not supporting HL2 in 6, 8, 10 years, look at Half-Life 1. They still have servers authenticating users every time they want to play online, and that game is 5 years old. I can't see them getting rid of the Steam ID anytime soon, and if you think HL2 won't be around for as long as HL1 has been, I think you're... wrong, basically. And if no one has said so lately, the authentication basically assigns a particular CD-Key to a Steam account, just like how your Counter-Strike CD is associated with a Steam account. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Everyone who is worried about VALVe not supporting HL2 in 6, 8, 10 years, look at Half-Life 1. They still have servers authenticating users every time they want to play online, and that game is 5 years old. I can't see them getting rid of the Steam ID anytime soon, and if you think HL2 won't be around for as long as HL1 has been, I think you're... wrong, basically. And if no one has said so lately, the authentication basically assigns a particular CD-Key to a Steam account, just like how your Counter-Strike CD is associated with a Steam account. Nothing more, nothing less.