I welcome activation, as long as the flippin' retail versions don't come with CD protection. After all, those dowloading from Steam get cd protection free disks don't they?

release date?well that doesn't mater here man.they bring games 1-2 months after.if we're lucky after 2 weeks

Have everyone sharped there keyboards? Becuase tonight (Swedish time) / today (US time) (15th November) is the day everyone have dreamed about. HALO 2, no HALF LIFE 2, can also be written ½ life 2 or ½ life 2 = 1 or ½ past life 2.
ANYWAY, this is the day. This IS the DAAAY! To a shame of them who live's in north pole. Think the release date is somewhere in year 2099 there...:D

We in Sweden have just to waith untill tommorrow, but I'm shure mutch mutch mutch mutch mutch information will be revealed toDAY!

Its the 17th for me at my shop! :rolleyes:

Ive just got back from my local game shop! They have Halflife 2 there now (just came in) but the shop had to sign a form saying they would not sell it untill the morning of the 17th! Bummer as ive already paid for my copy.
Now to Munsterbuster, I could have been sneaky and had my picture taken with my discs in the shop to claim that bubblegum prize. :D
And apparently due to the activation it wont be released for rental!!! It apparently will only work on the machine it was activated on! I really dont know how this will work as what happens if I buy a new machine? :confused:

maybe you re-activate it and stops working on machine 1 and works in machine 2
that fixes the rental problem right?
just a theory

The global activation would be 9 a.m. Tuesday CET. And I bet, that steam is ****ing down at the moment. ^^

@Tbaher
Hmmm yep could work? not a bad thought. :)

Could somebody with the originals please scan the disks and find out what protection (if any) HL2 has.

Don't think so. In Sweden the Valve Nordic (or what they could) are gonna have a release party, MEANS that the game will be installed in numbered of computers and playeble around 18.00 16th November 2004 swedish time. And be sould in Sweden 16th November. Realy think the STEAM server should be up then!

Who are Valve Nordic and what do they have to do with the development and publishing of Half-Life 2? The game is getting its Worldwide Release tonight at Midnight PST. Thats 8am GMT and 9am CET Tuesday Morning (like munsterbuster said). Read some Press Releases before making up some random bull****. Good luck to anyone who will be authenticating their release tonight/tomorrow. I can imagine the Steam Servers will be severly overloaded. :p

On another note, looks like the UK does get this game tomorrow (at retail). Its being advertised on UK television for the 16th. I'm amazed to see this game even get advertised on TV. Only EA Games seem to advertise PC Games on TV over here, and even then its only two titles. The Sims and Medal of Hono(u)r. I dont remember seeing a TV Advert for the other big PC Game of the year, DOOM 3.

Anyways, moving on. Does anyone know if Valve intend to release a demo of the game? I have held off placing an order, for fear of the game not even running on my hunk of junk of a PC. I'm also of the mindset that no game needs me wasting £300+ just so it will run on this piece of crap. Tools of the trade if you do that ;)

The right company was "Vivendi Universal Games Nordic" its the nordic publisher! ;)

rofl yeah, valve nordic? AHAHAHAHAHAH rofl, aniways, Batty i mean JOYBOY ;) also nfsu2 has been advertised on tv in the uk.

Germany had an Doom 3 commercial running.

Battyboy? Jesus, havent heard that word since the very early 90's. Used to love saying that when I was younger :D

The thing with NFSU2 is that its a multiformat title, so EA was bound to get behind it. I was just trying to point out that its very rare for a PC Exclusive title to get its own commerical on UK TV. Just been reading on the gamesradar forum that Tescos had it on sale today for £32.99. Looks like PC Games are starting to match the price of points of console games.

Oh yeah, one more thing. As the games coming out in the next few hours, Please dont start posting spoilers. :(