Halflife 2 - Internet activation and after....?

[EMPiRE]

If you also give the buyer your STEAM account with which you activated the game then this would be possible, as your STEAM account is linked to the serial key of the retail version of the game. But if this is legal, that is another question... Most likely they do not allow this making it hard to resell HL2 and future online activated games (but then again they will be making more money when everyone has to buy a original non-activated version).

But it is also possible that Valve adds an option the deactivate/remove a serial from your STEAM account so you can resell it but this is highly unlikely...

To my knowledge, your do not own a copy of the game. You just "lease" it so therefor it can not be resold... (I read this somewhere but can not find where this was)

I read something in german internet news that it is possible to reactivate Half-Life 2 after playing, but it costs 10 Euro at STEAM. Selling the game makes than no problem. In my opinion it´s to expensive and it seems to me that the game is more lended than bought from Steam. But isn´t there a offline-activation-patch from E.p...o in the news?

Greetz ThePrince

[evil_pikatchu]

Thx for your replies, but another question came to my mind:
What if you ever change your computer, get a new one ?
(it's the same than selling the game in fact).
I think this online registration is not in fact a copy protection, but a
guarantee for the publisher that each sold copy of the game is only used once
and after that becomes useless, a sort of throw-away game, used once...
Waht do we learn ?
That some very, very clever businessman has find yet another way to get more money for a nice looking, but "full-of-bugs-and-no-idea-how-to-solve-them" game.