I bought HalfLife2 from Walmart for $40 and my 4 month old WD hardrive
died. I tried to reinstall HL2 and Steam cried like an ass raped beotch
telling me that my cd key was already in use. No Duh! In the end they
wanted me to cut my barcode from the box and send it with $10 to get my
game reactivated. Screw Valve, I bought the game and I will never buy
another of their DRM crap product! Long live Warez!
j maccraw wrote:
Something specific Stan?
I know I was not happy with it at HL2 release and
there have been troubles with
availability....
All I can say is after a year of my game box being
dead, I simply signed on to
my steam account & had a full patched version of HL2
downloaded & installed
without the need for my discs. This is DRM done right
in my book though I don't
care for it's regular calls home to validate.
In fact the call home method is one aspect of Alcohol
120% I really hate when I
launch it from the wrong machine and have to go online
to swap the active copy
back to the right machine.
zaske wrote:
Speak of the devil and he will appear. Steam is
another DRM disaster!
j maccraw wrote:
Funny how most non-game software vendors do just
fine
with license keys & internet validation.
At least HalfLife 2 switched to only needing a
valid
serial number & steam account to install & play
without the media checks.
CW wrote:
Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and
put them to pen:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921
Let me add what is not in the above:
Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild,
uncontrollable crashes at random.
Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good
luck avoiding blue screens.
Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for
the software to not run.
What garbage
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