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Half-Life 2 Steam Preloads

[Aug 19, 2004, 10:27 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Half-Life 2 Fallout (thanks GameSpot) has more news from their forums as Gabe Newell made a post yesterday indicating that today is the day Half-Life 2 assets will begin pre-loading for some customers over Steam:

HL/2 pre-load will begin tomorrow. It was ready yesterday, but we decided to use the bandwidth to get out the VST first since I get pelted with zillions of questions from people asking how their PC will run Half-Life 2.

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24. Re: preload? Aug 19, 2004, 13:28 Ray Marden
 
Half-Life 2 "assets", does that mean THE GAME?

For now, just 'lil, initial parts of it.

"pre-load"? Does that mean steam users will be able to download THE GAME?

Theoretically, that is the whole point of Steam. It will be interesting to see when Half-Life 2 becomes available on Steam, local retailers will not be happy with online delivery and Valve does want to try and push that CE version, but we are heading toward completely downloadable games/programs.

"will begin tomorrow", does this mean THE GAME will be available tomorrow?

No, just the first bits of Half-Life 2 and, for the ATI/CS/Cyber cafe people, the ability to play the early version of CounterSMACK Source along with the VST.

Hating when teammates infect me :(,
Ray

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