'Official' Half-Life 2 Thread. Do Not Create New Threads (NO SPOILERS)

[Grumpy]

Its the 17th for me at my shop!

[Grumpy]

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.
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?

[tbaher]

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

[munsterbuster]

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

[Grumpy]

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

[t.foster73]

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

[howz_dis]

Originally Posted by t.foster73

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

yeh no probs m8 its securom 5.03.06.0002..do u no how 2 copy it by anychance?? as i burnt a workin copy from my mates orginal but im getting a emulator error msg..ok & thnks in advance

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[krondike]

Originally Posted by munsterbuster

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

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!

[JoyBoy]

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.

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

[krondike]

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