Half-Life 2 can now be preloaded via Steam
 

Servers seem to be very busy at the moment though, so it could take a while before you can get a slot.

Can't wait for it to be released :D

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Good stuff :D Lets hope the activation is forthcoming too :)

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Not sure i see the point - your still going to have to buy it to get the CD Key - unless you get it from steam which, if the forum goons over there are correct, would mean shelling out $55 in order to buy the game, which is not really good value for money concidering play.com offer it for 24.99 delivered.

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I got my license key free when I purchased my ATI 9600XT

:)

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I'm going to buy the CD, Pre-Load it, then use the CD key to activate it :)

EDIT: At that price on play.com I'm going to buy it from there :erm:

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Got the preload, though took me some time, been going since, what 11am? The speeds seem to shift between 120 and 60 kB/s.

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I can see HL2 is going to be around 1-2GB since the first Half-Life on it's own was 600mb.

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I got a slot, 0.8% in about 5 minutes

At the moment it's just downloading the "base source shared materials" which is 1.01GB, and that isn't even Half-Life 2 yet (It's basically the engine of Half-Life 2) :erm:

This is going to be over 2GB at this rate :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

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Heh well I cant get any of it, too busy :(

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Set it off on Sunday morning.. that'll be the best time for low overall internet traffic.

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I think the total size for HL2 is 1043MB. If so, it's going to either a DVD-Disc or 2-CD's when it's in the shops. I'm buying it off the web though, much cheaper.

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isn't Steam a big pile of Steaming Manure ?

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Rofl, Valve have made it much better than it was a few months ago ;)

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edit: the file you download is 550mb, i guess it decompresses it or something to that size.

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imho they should of restricted early pre-loading for voucher / cs condition zero owners as they did with cs-source. Then the server load would be quite abit lower and there would be alot less wasted downloads of people getting it, then buying the cd version

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I really can't see the point of this.
I'd much rather have a nice DVD case sitting on my shelf.

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well i got a free activation key when i bought my ati card :)

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Well youd have to have it in Steam to play it multiplayer anyway like CZ, so the way I see it, preload it now, goto the shop when it comes out and buy it (if you can get your hands on it - doubt it) get the game for the key, enter it into Steam and youve got your game already.