UK Half-Life 2 DVD Only? [Oct 05, 2004, 06:11 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post on
Halflife2.net (thanks Stoo) reports they've received indications from U.K. retailers
that the Half-Life 2 will be released in the U.K. on DVD only. They don't have
word on the remainder of Europe, though they point out and that the Far Cry CD
edition was not sold across the pond either.
I think either Valve is being very smart, or Vivendi is being incredibly dumb (depending on who made the decision to sell CD-only for the U.S. market).
A strong majority of HL2 sales will be in the U.S.. Sure there will be sales in Europe and Asia, but no where near the numbers sold in the U.S. A CD-only set up in the largest market drives sales to the Steam system That's why I say Valve is really smart or Vivendi is incredibly dumb.
Hey, whoever made the decision, it certainly worked on me! Downloaded the Steam client over the weekend, and have a copy (supposedly) of HL2 on my HDD patiently waiting for the go-ahead from Valve.
And before all the Steam-bashers jump on my hide, let me say that Steam was easily one of the simplest, most painless process I have been through on the PC in a long while. Having experienced it once, I can say I am not going back to the old physical-copy scheme.
Although it does make EBaying played games rather more difficult. I think I will be selective about which games to download and which games to buy from stores. For example, all id-developed games will be purchased on CD/DVD format only
All you Steam-naysayers need to get with the program and enter the 21st century. Steam is not bad at all and very user friendly with low overhead.
You cannot make anything fool-proof. The fools are too inventive
A strong majority of HL2 sales will be in the U.S.. Sure there will be sales in Europe and Asia, but no where near the numbers sold in the U.S. A CD-only set up in the largest market drives sales to the Steam system That's why I say Valve is really smart or Vivendi is incredibly dumb.
Hey, whoever made the decision, it certainly worked on me! Downloaded the Steam client over the weekend, and have a copy (supposedly) of HL2 on my HDD patiently waiting for the go-ahead from Valve.
And before all the Steam-bashers jump on my hide, let me say that Steam was easily one of the simplest, most painless process I have been through on the PC in a long while. Having experienced it once, I can say I am not going back to the old physical-copy scheme.
Although it does make EBaying played games rather more difficult. I think I will be selective about which games to download and which games to buy from stores. For example, all id-developed games will be purchased on CD/DVD format only
All you Steam-naysayers need to get with the program and enter the 21st century. Steam is not bad at all and very user friendly with low overhead.
You cannot make anything fool-proof. The fools are too inventive
You cannot make anything fool-proof. The fools are too inventive
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