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Originally Posted by goddamn

Wasn't this locked?
I'm a bit concerned about the last reason for deleting accounts; "using cracked versions of Valve games". Does that include the good ol' No-CD patch?

I've not heard about anyone complaining that they were banned simply for using hijack's noCD fix.

I looked through Half-Life 2's EULA, and I could not find any statement that would seem to prohibit circumvention of the SecuROM protection. Moreover, the hijack fix isn't actually a "cracked" version of Half-Life 2. It's more of a wrapper for Steam that drops in a different hl2.exe (but not a cracked one, because it's still authored by Valve, it's just for the Steam download version of the game) when Half-Life 2 is launched, so technically they couldn't claim that we're using a "crack".

I play in Steam Offline mode, but thus far I'm not terribly concerned.