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Gameguru Mania News - Nov,20 2004 -

Half-Life 2 - retail users CD / DVD check solution - briefly
(hx) 10:52 AM CET - Nov,20 2004 - Post a comment / read (13)
The Steam Users Forums offers a solution for owners of the boxed retail version of Half-Life 2 who are annoyed that they are required to have the game CD or DVD in a drive to run the game. (thanks BluesNews)

Once you have registered your CD-KEY with Valve through steam, If you can be bothered to download all the HL2 and CS:source content you can play without the DVD. Just create a new steam install in a different location, open that install of steam and download the content through steam. HL2 and CS:source will appear is the "My Games" list and you can install them from there. Same way ATI vouchers had a CD Key your CD Key is registered to your Steam account and it's that key that allows you to download the content that you have purchased. This should install it the same way as everyone who purchased it through steam meaning you won't have to use the DVD to play it.

Vivendi are responsable for making sure the DVD's etc are not copied and distributed easily, you can't blame them for that considering the Piracy these days.

last 10 comments:

Venom1	(01:49 PM CET - Nov,20 2004 )
When i buy ( :shock: ) a game i don't want all this shit inside! Fuck you Valve and Steam, YOU ARE THE PEOPLE HOW REALLY SUPPORT THE WAREZ SCENE WITH ALL THIS. Go warez, free us from their stupidity.

Sabot

(02:00 PM CET - Nov,20 2004 )

Venom you are soooo full of bullshit! Go take a running fuck yourself and leave this site -all you do is post WAREZ shit :roll: What's wrong, mum/dad give you a months grounding? Fucking world on your puny shoulders? Awww go suck a plastic tit and GROW UP MORON **SICK of your posts in every friggin' VALVE thread.... :evil:

SOME of us go here because the site has *excellent* info -it's not for punks like you to post verbal shit -so go! jump in a lake and give us peace....

HX sorry man, this idiot is realy pushing it!

FX5950

(06:00 PM CET - Nov,20 2004 )

Yeah all this "WAREZ" talk is pretty lame. I'm not sure if you think you are sounding "kewl" or what, but every other person here probably gets the cracked releases of everything and buys the occasional game worth the purchase. So quit acting like you're k-rad, 'l33t', or whatever, because your're really coming off sounding like an ass. And more to the point this is not the site to bring this sorta crap.. .

Venom1

(09:30 PM CET - Nov,20 2004 )

Stumpus> Venom you are soooo full of bullshit! Go take a running fuck yourself and leave this site -all you do is post WAREZ shit :roll: What's wrong, mum/dad give you a months grounding? Fucking world on your puny shoulders? Awww go suck a plastic tit and GROW UP MORON **SICK of your posts in every friggin' VALVE thread.... :evil:

SOME of us go here because the site has *excellent* info -it's not for punks like you to post verbal shit -so go! jump in a lake and give us peace....

HX sorry man, this idiot is realy pushing it!

Is better than you play with your dick, if you have one. :twisted:

El_Coyote	(01:43 PM CET - Nov,21 2004 )
lets play "guess my work" with venom1... first hint.... it propably doesnt require the use of a brain...

Sabot	(04:28 PM CET - Nov,21 2004 )
Venom1> Is better than you play with your dick, if you have one. :twisted: I'm married I have a WIFE to play with my dick, unlike you with your pitch black bedroom and no-life plus the tweezers you use to pull yourself off! :roll: bye,bye sad-case.

Venom1	(05:23 PM CET - Nov,21 2004 )
Stumpus> Venom1> Is better than you play with your dick, if you have one. :twisted: I'm married I have a WIFE to play with my dick, unlike you with your pitch black bedroom and no-life plus the tweezers you use to pull yourself off! :roll: bye,bye sad-case. Bye bye asshole. :shock:

El_Coyote	(02:31 AM CET - Nov,22 2004 )
Venom1> Bye bye asshole. :shock: worst comeback ever

Venom1	(11:09 AM CET - Nov,22 2004 )
I am really stew... I have said nothing against forum members only AGAINST STEAM and VALVE. GO and see on the STEAM forum the thoughts of all (at least the posts that have not been already deleted by mod) if you don't trust me. I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE LIKE Stumpus that say idiot to other members. The only real idiot is this asshole.

Sabot

(06:52 PM CET - Nov,22 2004 )

Venom1> I am really stew...
I have said nothing against forum members only AGAINST STEAM and VALVE.
GO and see on the STEAM forum the thoughts of all (at least the posts that have not been already deleted by mod) if you don't trust me.
I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE LIKE Stumpus that say idiot to other members.
The only real idiot is this asshole.

Does that make you a 'saint' or something? Your the ASSHOLE that brags that YOU PIRATE games (note the PLURAL) this isn't just against VALVE, this is against developers in general.
This is what you said:
quote:
When i buy ( :shock: ) a game i don't want all this shit inside!

Which basicaly means you buy a game about as many times as you leave your BLACK bedroom -ie: ZERO!! Because you sit in there downloading THEM!!!

So let's get this into perspective; YOUR the asshole that came here BRAGGING that you PIRATE games and that you have or will have a WAREZ copy of HL2 OK!? So you think you've done no wrong? You come here spouting shit (because the law and VALVE would have your ASS if you talked this crap on their forums!) and think that users such as myself (that legaly bought HL2) have to open EVERY VALVE thread that HX puts up containing news, only to read the first post in it containing YOUR annoying shit!! Go piss off and do this on the VALVE forum -spineless individual that has NO GUTS :evil:

Oh i'm sooooo sorry that i attacked you oh defenceless pirate....

Venom1	(10:03 PM CET - Nov,22 2004 )
Stumpus haven't you said "bye bye"? So, go away... :twisted:

Sabot	(12:33 AM CET - Nov,23 2004 )
Venom you are a complete waste of DNA aren't you?, you are SOOOO THICK the penny hasn't dropped eh. "bye,bye" was aimed at your 1 or 2 brain cells...We ware SOO certain that you would actualy realise it's you that is to blow off this site -but i can see that your cerebraly challenged..........Look son it's not a game, just go and play on the VALVE forum.

Venom1	(01:48 PM CET - Nov,23 2004 )
Here again? You are a really dumbass. :roll:

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