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Yay!!!!!!
> I like having a box and a manual and a disc. Feels like I actually own
> something.
>
> And I like having all my DVDs, games and CDs lined up nicely on my
> bookcase so I can see them all.
I totally agree with you about having a manual to read etc but HL2 is not going to be shipped with a manual, there is no manual at all only installation instructions, if you want a manual you have to buy the walkthrough, but hey it all adds to the feeling of complete imersion in the story and not knowing who you are.
In my opinion, downloading patches just means the delevlopers can release half arsed games to meet there deadlines, and allow us to find the faults only to have them fixed by a 60 mb patch!!!
try doing that on crap 56K dial up, with a two hour cut off time.
swines
although my biggest reason for getting it off steam is halflife source and dod source, plus wanted to keep playing counterstrike source.
> So how do you get DoD if you get the retail version?
As far as I can tell, you can't, yet. So far it's only available from the Silver / Gold packages through Steam.
Vavle will probably make it available as a seperate download some time in the future, but I haven't heard anything yet.
If I where to choose between having a lovely, pointless piece of card and booklet I never read or having a game installed painlessly on my PC with out the faffing about, I’d always go for the latter option.
Plus, with Steam I also get Day of Defeat: Source, not available in the retail versions, and one of my personal favourite Half Life mods.
> The average gamer is a lazy ar**hole?
Well, not me :P*
*[S]Although I do agree
And I like having all my DVDs, games and CDs lined up nicely on my bookcase so I can see them all.
> Why download it when you can go to the shop and buy a fully published
> game with case, cd's and manuals etc?
Because it take up unnecessary space and you have to fiddle about with the CD every time you want to play. Because I've bought HL2 off of Steam, I can wake up on Tuesday, Double click Steam, and off I go. No time wasted installing, no CD to put in and take out and no pointless box and manual.
Simplicity you see.