Steam News
(thanks Frans) follows up on the story below this one announcing that Half-Life
2 authentication issues have been solved:
We have resolved the issues that
caused some to experience delays with Half-Life 2 authentication earlier today.
We appreciate your patience and hope everyone enjoys the game.
not encouragin neone to pirate, but ma friend downloaded hl2 off the internet and all he had to do was double click hl2.exe to play. no activation, no offline error shit.
for once i regret a little bit for buying hl2 so soon. i shuda waited until valve came up with some new solution for activating the game. i guess i'll just sit down and wait now.