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Originally posted by DHansen
Well.... I did some research of my own problem. Seems as though a few stores (Best Buy included) decided to break the release date of the 16th and sell it early. The problem is this, however - Half Life 2 REQUIRES you to register the game online through Steam.. and the Steam authentication servers have yet to be activated.. Valve released a statement that Vivendi will not allow them to activate the servers... total garbage...
Ummm...you DO know that this wasn't an online registration scheme, correct?!

The idea behind this was 19 months in the making and amounts to pure evil...their server went through every last bit of your OS, hard drives, networked drives...everything.

What was recorded for posterity? What wasn't? What is now residing on a DARPA mainframe somewhere?! What settings in Windows were changed? What other software was uploaded? What else was changed?

No one knows, and thanks to the kind and benevolent PATRIOT Act, it is illegal to tell us.

After all that malarky, Steam uncompresses and de-encrypts the game files so your PC can run them. Sweet, huh?

Too bad it is patently illegal...you can't sell something that cannot be returned for its purchase amount in cash in an encrypted form; this amounts to selling a broken product that is utterly useless to the end user.

Useless, that is, you give in to the extortion and try to get your "Money's Worth" from the software in the only way left open to you: by consenting to allow the Corporation In Question to thoroughly search your machine(s) for whatever purpose they deem suitable at the time, and in doing so you also give your permission for them to ADD, DELETE AND CHANGE THINGS ON YOUR PC REMOTELY AND WITH TOTAL IMPUNITY.

Just printing on the box "Internet Connection Needed" does NOT allow them to throw Big Brother PArty on every purchaser's PC. Except for the fact that when you installed the flipping thing, the EULA you agreed to specifically granted them this right.

Until this sucker is hacked well & proper, so that it can be altered to make the retail version playable like any other game (with a stupid Play Disk in an optical drive), not many geeks (even geeks with nothing to hide) will be playing it.

You just KNEW there was another reason for all those delays, didn't you?! Well, now you know the rest of the story behind them.

It certainly wasn't to deal with all the coding flaws and sound/video issues, now, was it?! Especially considering the fact that those 'features' are still THERE awaiting some BS patch release...and three guesses what you will have to consent to AGAIN to get it.

Best regards,

FastVFR
 
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