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As of August 26, at 6:55 pm, Half-Life 2 is officially available for pre-loading to all Steam account owners. If you do not already own Steam, you can download it from the Steam website. According to Erik Johnson of Valve Software, the file is roughly 500mb compressed. Half-Life 2 pre-loading begins

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As of August 26, at 6:55 pm, Half-Life 2 is officially available for pre-loading to all Steam account owners. If you do not already own Steam, you can download it from the Steam website. According to Erik Johnson of Valve Software, the file is roughly 500mb compressed.

Quote:Half-Life 2 pre-loading begins to Steam account holders today. Over the coming days, those who have selected the pre-loading option will have encrypted Half-Life 2 files delivered to their PC. No purchase is required to pre-load HL2, but is required to activate the game. Purchase options will be released soon. Then, the moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be authenticated and ready to start playing. For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.
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chis
chis Aug 27 2004, 7:00am says:

screw preloading

Ill buyt it

but nice to know its near

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Tei
Tei Aug 27 2004, 7:54am says:

I will buy the CD version because the download version will be with similar prize because the world is not ready for download distribution. We have the system (internet and steam) but our mind are not ready for a 3 $ or 10 $ Half-Life 2

Anyway will be cool if Valve sell by steam new CD-Key. Some people will have piracy copys and will want to upgrade to legal copys.

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Jenny_Kitty
Jenny_Kitty Aug 27 2004, 8:19am says:

Lol. Servers are to busy, how would I know :rolleyes:

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NightSage
NightSage Aug 27 2004, 3:47pm says:

lol and the servers will be busy for quite sometime.... VALVE BITTORRENT IS YOUR FRIEND! it will not hurt you oun throw you down de basement.

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ImTheDarkcyde
ImTheDarkcyde Aug 27 2004, 4:36pm says:

i got it, i just retryed moments after failing to connect first time due to busyness

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Karuto
Karuto Aug 27 2004, 5:49pm says:

I hope this means that the SDK will be released soon...

I want to be able to have a CD so that I can just redownload something without having to go through my hard drive reformatting on accident, or having problems with Steam not recognizing the download. I want to be able to have a back-up where I can burn the CD if need be.

Besides, it's a better way to show it off to your friends :D

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Guest
Guest Aug 27 2004, 6:38pm says:

Yay, I got it ^^

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ImTheDarkcyde
ImTheDarkcyde Aug 28 2004, 1:24am says:

could just burn cache to a cd, eh?

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T-RonX
T-RonX Aug 28 2004, 3:50am says:

HL2 goes gold in 2 days :)

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Guest
Guest Sep 17 2004, 5:51am says:

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