[JoyBoy]

CS Retail cannot be purchased seperately from Half-Life in the UK. Taking his response to the mag question, I'm assuming that he's in the UK.

U forgot to mention that there are numerous problems with the Retail release (and its subsequent patches). The biggest of which is game servers automatically kicking players because they do not have all the maps. Which means downloading Map Packs AND Map Fixes. And lets not forget the WONet problems.
Even people who own the retail release do not bother with it, because its stupid.
Also why the hell rename the guns for the retail, not a problem, but still annoying.