Half-Life 2 DM Released

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  This would be akin to buying a game with a virus in the install that wiped all your games off you HD. I'll be REALLY gunshy about anything Steam-related in the future... this is really a drag. I would have been fine with the DM portion being borked as I haven't finished the game... but SP too?

  Nov 30, 2004 11:27pm PST
  This would be akin to buying a game with a virus in the install that wiped all your games off you HD. I'... : dumptruck
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  Backup the steam files next time? There's a reason they included a backup utility. : derelict515
  • doesnt the back up utility create a corrupted file...or did they fix this? : UberChrist
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    not to be snippy, but i wasnt aware of a backup utility, so save your smartass for later. the way i had t... : ezos
    • its actually part of steam, under properties theres a button : r1cola
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    the reason being because their stuff breaks so often that you can't trust it to work so you'd better back... : freshview
    • especially when you have no way of doing if steam happens to be closed when the update happens : alexthegreat2
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      He wasn't chastizing him for creating a backup before an upgrade, he was chastizing before uninstalling. ... : 98z28
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        I didn't do it but if I uninstalled Steam than OF COURSE I would assume the games would still be there. N... : NastyJack
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          You're talking about gigs and gigs of files though. I would assume (if I didn't know anything about what... : 98z28
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            I thought before that Steam was simply the delivery mechanism and that deleting and reinstalling it would... : NastyJack
            • I can understand people who aren't as well read (not tryint to sound snooty but this game has been pretty... : 98z28
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              and thats precisely what i thought. understand that i had no intention of uninstalling the games, i w... : ezos
              • It's always smartass night at shacknews...just maybe not always directed at you http://www.shacknews.... : 98z28
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                I would have assumed the exact same thing, had I purchased Half-Life 2. It's not particularly unreasonabl... : protozone
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                  LOL... extreme hypothetical situations rarely prove points : 98z28
                  • The only thing that really makes that situation so extreme is the fact that the products are being sold b... : protozone
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            Steam and Half-Life 2 are separate programs, and separate products. It's natural for people to assume ... : protozone
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              We've been over this before here... Those kinds of clauses are common in games licenses these days. Val... : 98z28
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                No, but it's the first one that forces people to comply. In the past, there might have been a little c... : protozone
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                  I completely agree. Say goodbye to the used bin at EBgames and such places if Steam clones become the new... : NastyJack
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                    The funny thing about this is, there will be copies of Half-Life 2 that can be re-sold... it's just that ... : protozone
                    • IAWTP, I actuallly enjoy selling 3 used games to get a new one. However, because one day I hope to work ... : dnurk
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                  Lol you are really bad at analogies and let me explain why. If you buy 8 ice creams you can't put them i... : 98z28
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                    So you think that after I have finished reading a book, I should not be able to lend it to a friend so th... : protozone
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                      http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=subscriber_agreement Noone could write or release a documen... : protozone
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                        I read most of the subscriber agreement and I must say that I agree with most of your points made. Wha... : CplBeaker
                        • Is this a joke? This already exists. Just turn off automatic updates and switch to offline mode. The e... : lont
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                          go to the URL steam://backup/ : Barbarian
                          • I used this last week. Backedup HL2 and CS:S right before my HD died. I ran the restore app on the new ha... : project13