Half-Life 2 Preloading Soon

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  Thanks for that. Kind of cool... But...still CS. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    I agree, im more of an HLDM / HL2 kinda guy..not so excited about this. I hope with the HL1 port, comes a... : mankeroo
    • Oh, hell yes... I *really* want to play the HL 1 port. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  wow, is that RTCW? : quest2d
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    Someone take this mans gamer liscence away. : Reeves
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      LOL. Looks like I'm not the only one that thinks that looks like a very poor WolfET mod. http://www.s... : gunrock46
      • well have fun. : rockerbsf
• this game will be totally awesome. they update the detonator!! kick ass!!!! : armaduck
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  Damn this game looks dated already : deadbydawn
  • 800x600 is totally high end too : rockerbsf
  • Yeah because if you're the most played online game, it would be great business sense to cut most of your ... : SpiderMonkey
• http://www.halflife2.net has a handful of shots. It doesn't have to look current. It's CS. It just has... : mallrice
• Is that it? I mean: IS THAT IT? Is this what all the fuzz is about? It looks like a CS (on HL1) with a ne... : [7]kami

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  There's none within 30 miles of valve's office, the densest part of WA state. Awesome huh. : mallrice
  • That really does suck : PSYCHON
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    Haha, two right near me in Tacoma! : krenzo
    • we hates you :D! : PSYCHON
• Hmm, most of the cyber cafes I've been to had pretty outdated computers. : deadhorse

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• Technically no, but probably so, as they'll unlock it midnight the release date, while everyone else will... : sgtsanity
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  The game is just preloading on Steam, and will remain locked until the date of release. Half-Life 2 will... : nachowray
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    I've always thought I heard Valve say they were gonna release HL2 (as in playable) like a week or two bef... : rockerbsf
    • This was never said : Draugluin
• Cool, thanks guys. I have no clue how Steam works... never even used it. : tomservo

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• Well, you'll have two copies of Half-Life 2. The preloading is only for those who are buying it over stea... : sgtsanity
• I'm pretty sure Gabe said a long time ago that you'll just be able to use the CDkey you get from the boxe... : menkey
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  You'll have two copies (ergo, two times the used HD space) only if you pay for two copies, AFAIK. : nachowray
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    Yeah, but the way I understand it, it preloads 90% of the game whether you buy it or not, and when you bu... : Dynotaku
    • you can choose to preload or not. You can also delete your cache files if you'd like. : johnny rotten
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  Here's the deal with Steam. You have the option of preloading without buying. You cannot "activate/... : The Warthog
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    Also, no matter what version you buy, even the low-rent SP-only version, the game will install Steam as i... : mn3m0n1c
    • BTW, this is no more painful than setting up a W.O.N. account was. : mn3m0n1c
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      so this means that even if you want to play SP-only... you still have to have an internet connection? wtf... : nova_x
      • Your logic skills baffle me : solo
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  You dont want to delete Lula's Sexy Empire for Half Life 2? You some kind of eeediot or something? : paganritual
  • Tell me more of this Lula's Sexy Empire... I am intrugued. : Dynotaku

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  S P Y W A R E ' D : Mrc32
  • * U N F O U N D E D C H A R G E ' D * : sgtsanity
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  I wish they'd hurry up and announce the Steam price for HL2. CS:CZ ended up being cheaper in shops. : sardaukary
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    That's because shops can have sales. And the publisher probably encourages them to, because Vivendi oste... : nachowray
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      Wrong. Vivendi still takes a cut of steam sales. Think about it: valve has a publishing agreement with vi... : mallrice
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        Right, but my point stands: Vivendi still stands to make more off of retail sales than they do off of Ste... : nachowray
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          This is wrong also. Why would vivendi let valve dual publish titles if steam resulted in less money for v... : mallrice
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            Without a statement from either Vivendi or Valve regarding their publishing contract, this is all specula... : sinistarfith
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              This is a good point, and i actually hadn't considered this possibility. One factor here is valve knows a... : mallrice
              • When you start plugging in theoretical numbers, it starts to be very revealing. Let's go with the 75%/... : sinistarfith
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            I'm sorry but nachoray is right. Gabe Newell said himself on hl2.net forums not too long ago that Valve ... : Dabs84
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              This has nothing to do with my point though. Valve can make 2.5x the cut and have that come from the reta... : mallrice
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                You're missing the whole point which is that Vivendi makes no money from steam sales, at all. It all goes... : gl2 drivers
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                  No, i am not missing that; my whole argument is that this is likely not true. : mallrice
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                    Valve wants to ditch distributors and go 100% Steam in the future. They've said this maybe 2 years ago or... : rockerbsf
                    • This, also, has nothing to do with my argument. : mallrice
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              Well yeah, think about it - its a hell of a lot cheaper to distribute over Steam that it is to distribute... : sonicstorm
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                At a recent conference I attended (Microsoft Meltdown) Mr. Newell mentioned that distribution cost per co... : Tungsten
                • 8 cents! Haha that is freakin awesome. Kudos to Valve if they can pull off a large distribution via Steam... : sonicstorm
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        Your looking at this from the point of view that vivendi have some sort of control over valve. which they... : Beady
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          I think you summed it up. Valve is in the power position and could have taken HL2 to be published elsewh... : johngloid
          • Valve may be in a power position over one publisher but not all. Lets say all the publishers told Valve ... : Chod
          • Unless, of course, they signed a publishing agreement when they started working on HL2. Which is totally ... : mallrice
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        Please give us a linked source, or STFU. You're arguing quite a lot for someone who just figures that it... : batkiwi
        • What? I already conceded that it might not be. Geez, dont get your panties in a wad. : mallrice
• That's right. Theoretically by then you'd have 90% of the game's install files downloaded. Come release d... : sonicstorm
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  people's arguments against steam are void. I installed it when it first came out long ago, and yeah, it ... : rockerbsf
  • ^IAWTP- I was in the beta, primarily to get the Bink E3 vids, and it was buggy as hell and s l o w . But : mn3m0n1c
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    IAWTP. It's much, much better and uber-convenient. I was away at my grandma's and was bored, so I put ste... : sgtsanity
    • Yeah, you can do this on anybody's PC! ;D I wonder if my sister has noticed she's got a Steam folder on h... : mn3m0n1c
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  Not entirely correct. Typically preloads go out to everyone regardless of whether they plan to purchase ... : Sapiens
  • wait i'm confused... it preloads to everyone automatically to share bandwidth or you have to accept the p... : mc-fine
  • Wrong, they changed their policy on this. Initially CZ was like this, then they got a significant amount ... : mallrice

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  It's more like Valve's attempt at cutting out the middle men who take a share of the money. For everythin... : menkey
  • exactly. I work for an OEM, and heres how it works: we get parts at a price (say our product costs $5 ... : epit

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  Word up. Quit wasting time on the damn forums and finish up the game already. They could have already h... : thenapalm
  • You realize that Gabe is a management dude, right? He doesn't code or do game assets, AFAIK. : mn3m0n1c
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    I know, the total of less than an hour he's accumulated on the forums could be used SOOO more constructiv... : sgtsanity
    • thats no excuse. : crypt420
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      like eating: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6848/doom4.jpg : osiris_brad
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        I thought the "Gabe si fat" jokes were a potentially bannable offense. : Sapiens
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          :( news to me Someone else posted that image on the shack before, i'm just reposting the comedy gold. : osiris_brad
          • I was just curious; last time I posted a sarcastic attack at someone making fun of Gabe's weight I was nu... : Sapiens
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            except making fun of fat people falls well short of gold. : rasputinreborn
            • go grab a snack instead of lecturing. : crypt420

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  Just out of curiosity, where would this terrible place devoid of the light that is the internet be? : krenzo
  • Out in a trailer by a lake : osiris_brad
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  Yes. Once you've acquired all of the necessary content to play the game, it's possible to play it offlin... : Sapiens
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    Awesome. Actually I'm talking about buying the game from a store shelf, though. : osiris_brad
    • I'm sure the CD would come with everything you'd need to play offline. I can't imagine Valve requiring a... : Sapiens

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  NO! It's no effort at all to change content in Steam so preloading means very little. : sardaukary
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    By following the link and utilizing rudimentary reading comprehension, I have determined that it means th... : nachowray
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      Game Assets complete != Gold. Much code can change still without having to change assets. : dmiller
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        Exactly. You can write and rewrite code all day long without having to change your texture files, your s... : umcpwintermute
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          Bad guess. Valve said 4 months ago they were done with development and were bugfixing; it's already slid ... : mallrice
          • I'm just cynical after hearing last summer that it was going to be released last summer - I've lost all o... : umcpwintermute
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            How many days ago did they say they would be down to zero bugs? : rockerbsf
            • People totally misinterpreted that. It was a dumb thing for them to say. No product is totally bug free. ... : mallrice
        • Well it is a way of them saying "LOL, Look at you guys that pre-ordered a game, while Joe Schmoe walked i... : rockerbsf
      • Oh, I know that. But the poster's assertion that preloading means very little is altogether unfounded. ... : nachowray
    • Nothing to stop them changing them if they want/need to, though, except the increased bandwidth costs. : nudel

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• I believe you can, although i am not certain. Remember when steam first came out, they had these download... : mallrice
• Yes, you can backup the steam cache. You can also copy it to another computer if you have HL2 on there to... : sgtsanity
• Yes. I just did this last weekend. It worked without a problem. As long as you log in to the same acco... : menkey
• All your important info (CD keys, account info, etc. are stored on Valve's servers, so you can pretty muc... : mn3m0n1c

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• on STEAM, I mean, heh : MrLonghair