Sucky thing Valve doing is leaving out what was in
HL2's original bundle: CS:S &
HL2:DM. So yeah you give away HL2 to a buddy when you
upgrade with Orangebox,
but he can't HL2 deathmatch online OR (if you combine
with the ATI freebe,
HL2:DM) they can't do CS:S. Even suckier for new
buyers who start with Orangebox
and loose out on these mods.
Nevermind the Valve/Steam online pricing is a joke,
the inability to transfer
licenses, and that once you pick a steam username you
can't change it. Still a
better system than needing a disc and a good game
engine IMHO.
Jamie Furtner wrote:
> With the Orange Box set, Valve is doing something a
bit different for
> people who already owned parts of it: They can give
away their old
> copies of whatever they own that's duplicated in the
Orange Box.
>
> For example, I owned HL2 and HL2: Ep1, and I then
bought the Orange Box.
> Through Steam I was able to give away my "old"
copies of HL2 and HL2:
> Ep1 to a friend for no cost to them or me. That's
what your friend is
> talking about.
>
> I can't give away Portal, Team Fortress 2, or HL2:
Ep2 (as I didn't own
> them before).
>
> I think that Steam itself is more anti-piracy and
auto-updating then
> anything else. The biggest downside of Steam is that
the game is
> permanently tied to my account, so I can't give the
disk to a friend and
> let them play it - they need my Steam account to be
able to play it. I'm
> sure that Valve and other vendors really like that
"downside".
>
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