Half-Life 2 Camera Contest
by Steve Gibson, Nov 12, 2004 3:33pm PSTI've decided to run a fun contest in hopes of a nice picture because pictures are fun. What we are looking for is some pictures of someone purchasing Half-Life 2 off of a major store shelf stocked with copies of Half-Life 2 such as BestBuy/CompUSA or something like that and then taking it home and installing and pictures of that as well. Something that we can confirm as legit like this guy did in Austria. If he had pictures of the store and store shelves and his receipt from where he got the game he would have won today! Where is Half-Life 2 on sale? Check around and find out! Bring your camera! What do you win? Well a lifetime Mercury pass and $250 of games from your favorite gaming store. Where is it? We dont know! Check your local store! The contest ends on Monday the 15th at 2pm CST! The first person with a confirmed entry is of course the winner. This contest is void where prohibited by law. Oh yeah, I upped it to $250 from the original $100 just to be sassy.
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I am loyal best buy worker and this his how the whole half life 2 thing got started.
Today during work we get a message on our internal commucation system that basically says. Half life 2 street is now gone rush all product to the floor and sale it.
Then five or six hours later we get this. After talking with the publishers of the game we need to pull all copies of the shelves and wait till tuesday.
That is basically what was said in the mails we got.
I wanted CS source and HL source, but i didn't really want to buy it online (didn't want to download it, and have to burn my own CD). But the box was practically empty. It had 1 dvd, a T-Shirt, and a tiny "strategy guide". Not really worth the money IMHO.
To anyone else thinking about buying the CE, just buy it off steam, you're not getting anything more from the store copy (other than a dvd which you could burn yourself).
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Are the Valve guys really out of their minds or are they really thinking ahead of their time and just handling the situation in a poor way?
I mean why the fuck has an internet connection to be required to play solo? The number of people pissed off by this move must be huge...
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Anything?
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You may have to copy and paste to get those to work. We got them in last night. Had the normal editions out on the shelves, after a corporate memo said to go ahead and put them out. I just got a call from a coworker who said they just repealed the "go-ahead" and that we shouldn't sell it until tuesday. Woops!
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Nolan Road MO (Store 36)
14300 E. 40 Highway
Independence, MO 64055
Phone: 816-373-1030
Look at what Waldo writes, im guessing maybe the air over at Valve is that there is no way they are releasing it early.
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Who's with me!!!???
Half-Life 2 has been ON MY COMPUTER for weeks now! (Still locked, of course)
Do I get a prize?!?!
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Someone from Steampowered forums unlocked Half-Life 2 and he has video evidence. Fake? Crack? :o
http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174331
I've mirroed it here for you:
http://junk.camtone.ca/hl2movie.mpg
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They're gonna have issues when tons of people who don't keep up with on-line stuff pick it up.
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http://mydocuments.orangemile.com/HL2/DSC09767.JPG
http://mydocuments.orangemile.com/HL2/DSC09768.JPG
http://mydocuments.orangemile.com/HL2/DSC09770.JPG
FUCK. :[
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It is clearly not for "entertainment purposes" only -- unless Steve routinely gives away $250 and lifetime Mercury passes for fun.
If it's to get Valve to unlock early, why try to push them into something they are apparently reluctant (for whatever reasons) to do? It's only three more days anyway.
Just trying to understand the situation here.
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plus i leave on vaction tomorrow and will have to wait another week. :(
My Monitor is totally clean, nothing has updated, yet in Task Manager Steam is pulling a constant ~20 CPU cycles.
OMG MY FILES ARE UNLOCKING
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good news for dallas folk willing to drive...
here's the directions :)
http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=Typ&tuid=16804611&ck=1072997942&tab=B2C&tcat=7843638&city=Plano&state=TX&zip=75024&uzip=75024&country=us&msa=1920&cs=5&ed=L48L4q1o2Tx9Vt1kBvlfse85nteYCo5qZeVOnRHJ1KET&stat=:pos:0:regular:regT:17:fbT:0
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Nobody seemed to be paying it any attention, and they had assloads of copies.
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I'll be down for pictures later.
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If hundreds/thousands of people are buying a game in a store and installing it and not being able to play it something should be done. What if someone buys it that knows nothing of Steam?
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It's sorta funny, but it's also a real problem; are unsuspecting buyers going to start returning their copies? I no longer live in my hometown, if your wondering why I didn't make an effort to win the contest last night. Oh, and as an update, apparently they took the game back off the shelves.
http://pictures.sprintpcs.com/?sivt=LEn28TzrmUa90YQho00U
My friend is the Sales Manager there, and called me to tell me they were putting it out. I told him about what was going on, which got a big 'wtf' out of him. He asked me, 'If no one can play it, why are we being told to put it out for sale?'
I kinda feel the same way. After years of bullshit with this game, I am just gonna give up and wait for the real must have title....
Duke Nukem Forever!!
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