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Old 27-08-2004, 12:50   #1
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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
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Old 27-08-2004, 13:17   #2
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Good stuff Lets hope the activation is forthcoming too
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Old 27-08-2004, 13:32   #3
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Re: Half-Life 2 can now be preloaded via Steam
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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Old 27-08-2004, 13:34   #4
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I got my license key free when I purchased my ATI 9600XT
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Old 27-08-2004, 14:07   #5
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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
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Old 27-08-2004, 14:39   #6
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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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Old 27-08-2004, 15:20   #7
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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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Old 27-08-2004, 15:39   #8
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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)

This is going to be over 2GB at this rate
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Old 27-08-2004, 16:09   #9
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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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Old 27-08-2004, 16:21   #11
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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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Old 27-08-2004, 17:45   #13
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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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