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Half-Life 2 for Sale?

[Nov 13, 2004, 9:02 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Valve sends an explanation for why Half-Life 2 is not being activated at this time in spite of the couple reports of it being available at retail already:

Half-Life 2 For Sale?

If you have purchased a copy of Half-Life 2, we are sorry you are still waiting to play. This is not Valve's choice. Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time.

Thanks for your patience and we will update you when we have more news to share.

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Nov 17, 2004, 15:29

kanniballl

"Let's see, if they actually gave us a discount, like $44.99 (vs $49.99 store price) then I'd actually feel sorry for them, but all they are doing is trying to cut out the publisher (yes, the publisher that gave them the funding to produce the game in the first place!) and stuff their pockets full of money."

Actually, buying over Steam IS cheaper than buying it in the stores.

Store Prices (without sales or coupons):
Basic = 54.99 USD
Collector Edition = 79.99 USD

Steam Prices
Bronze = 49.95 USD
Silver = 59.95 USD
Gold = 89.95 USD

Yes, that's right, the standard game is about $55 from most of the big places (ebgames, Best Buy, CompUSA, and others). Sure, you get a nice "box" and some archival CD's, but that doesn't bother me. I still have a bunch of free DVD-R's lying around that I can burn everything onto.

The Steam Silver package comes with everything the Collector Edition package has, except the Prima Book and an XL T-Shit. Both of which I wouldn't even want for free.

The Steam Gold packages comes with more stuff than the Collector Edition, but $10 USD more. Some of the stuff it comes with I would like (poster, soundtrack, etc).

I don't blame people for buying the box set; I almost did. It has its advantages. But complaining about the price is just stupid.

"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
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"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

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