Half-Life 10 year Anniversery - $0.98 on Steam

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Happy Birthday Half-Life!

to celebrate, Valve is offering the original Half-Life for 98 cents until 11/21 (noon PST).

i can guarantee everybody already has this, but it IS a deal. $1 for a GOTY title and true classic? yeah, that's a deal.
 
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I changed my mind. Played training room for a few minutes, and so far, does not seem to be causing motion sickness issues I had with Half-Life 2.

Keywords: so far
 
[quote name='demented1']Wow, if you can find your CD Key for any old Half Life game I highly reccomend entering it in. I had a copy of the original Half Life, nothing else. When I entered it in it unlocked: Richochet, Counterstrike, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Team Fortress Classic. Pretty damn good for .98! I guess I could have gotten it all free with my CD Key but considering I had no clue what Steam was until yesterday I guess it is worth .98 for the info.[/quote]
I have a original half life cd key and downloaded it at .98 cents just so I have a backup and put the disc away. Where do you enter in the cd key to unlock everything?
 
[quote name='Tee_Ken']I have a original half life cd key and downloaded it at .98 cents just so I have a backup and put the disc away. Where do you enter in the cd key to unlock everything?[/QUOTE]

You didn't have to buy the game. Once you input your serial, the game is tied to your account and you are able to download it whenever it suits you.

Register your cd key by going to the MY GAMES tab and clicking on the "Activate a product on Steam" button. From there, just follow the prompt.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']Black Mesa is a HL2 mod.[/QUOTE]

Not exactly. It's now running off the Orange Box SDK Base, which means that it can run independently, as long as you have the SDK base installed (which owners of any Source engine game have).
 
Ah, ok. Well, when it was first announced ways back, it was just referred to as a HL2 mod, and I haven't really paid attention since. It's not a HL mod, though, which is basically what the guy wanted to know. It's a Source engine mod. Thanks for the clarification.
 
[quote name='eugaet']Almost forgot about this. Just bought it, was still $0.98 at midnight CST.[/QUOTE]

Nice, I thought it was over. I picked one up for my sis, since someone mentioned a co-op mod.
 
[quote name='doctorfaustus']You didn't have to buy the game. Once you input your serial, the game is tied to your account and you are able to download it whenever it suits you.

Register your cd key by going to the MY GAMES tab and clicking on the "Activate a product on Steam" button. From there, just follow the prompt.[/quote]
Thanks. What sucks is that I just realized that the cd key is already registered with another steam account I created a very long time ago. Now I have to switch accounts to play those other games. There is no way of deactivating a key from an account.
 
Ooookay. So this is the first time I've tried downloading a full game from Steam, and the second major problem I've had with them (the first being my first account just disappeared, I guess because I didn't log in often enough).

I go to download, and it tells me something about my "Steam Token" has expired, and I have to enter my username and password. I do that, and it dumps me back to my game list. I can do that again and again. Sometimes it alternately tells me their severs are busy and doesn't have me enter my password.

Also, my copy of Steam has an October date, when there have been updates in November. I got to update, and it tells me it needs to restart to install the update (which I've never seen it download). So it restarts, and it's still the same version, repeat infinitely.

So...this is the good activation system? What's going on?
EDIT: Oh, and I tried port forwarding, tried disabling my hardware and software firewalls (that nothing else has trouble with), etc.-and nothing.
 
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What the HELL?!?! I tried sending this to their support page-it makes me log on. So I try to do that, and it says my info is wrong. The Steam client logs in, and I have the info written down, so I know it's not wrong.

So I decide "okay, I'll do the "forgot my password" link". Only THAT gives me a "that username/email is invalid" type message. No, it's not.

What the HEY is going on here? Seriously, this is supposed to be the "good" activation system? Thank goodness I've never bought anything with "activation" before :bomb:
 
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=755951

Apparently this isn't just me...so that's actually good, but what a joke. Yeah, the VERY FIRST TIME I try using an activation system it doesn't work, and that's with the gold standard of activation systems. And there are freaks out there who think it's "not a big deal"? Ugh :(

EDIT: Okay, I deleted that .blob file, relaunched Steam, and it worked. But how the HELL was I supposed to know how to do that? Not a good experience here, to put it mildly. I don't think I'm using Steam again.
 
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I've never had a problem with Steam and judging from conversations about it, it seems like most people have never had a problem with it, either. I know that's not what you want to hear right now, but people generally don't have a negative impression of something that's always worked flawlessly for them, regardless of whether or not it's caused problems for others.

I don't doubt your bad experience, but it's hard to sympathize and say, "You're right, it IS a piece of crap!"
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']Not really. If it can randomly go wrong that easily and often, it's not something worth using to me.[/quote]

[quote name='Vegan']I don't doubt your bad experience, but it's hard to sympathize and say, "You're right, it IS a piece of crap!"[/quote]

Hit the nail on the head, Vegan. You made your point already. You're pissed you had an issue! I guess you've lived a charmed life up until, now. Steam is very well received. You don't want to use it, your problem. You'll miss out on some good games. Stop saying the same thing over and over and over again, hoping someone will agree with you.

And for your information, I've used Steam for years without any issue at all. So, things don't just randomly go wrong.

In closing...

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I've heard of all kinds of Steam issues over the years. Even if it worked flawlessly, it's still Activation, so not something any of us should be using. But at any rate, it's a bit odd I've now had two major issues with Steam (including an account just disappearing) given how little I ever use it...
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']I've heard of all kinds of Steam issues over the years. Even if it worked flawlessly, it's still Activation, so not something any of us should be using. But at any rate, it's a bit odd I've now had two major issues with Steam (including an account just disappearing) given how little I ever use it...[/quote]

Really? Where have you heard of these issues? Except for the earliest days, Steam has run extremely smoothly. If you're going to throw out, "Well, this guy..." you can just save it. I can say that about anything in this world. Steam works great, it's a good service (more than just activation, so stop repeating that word over and over again), and the gaming community loves it.

I just remembered you're one of these "activation is the bane of existence" guys, so I see where this is all coming from.
 
I played the bejesus out of HL when it came out... but I'm more tempted to get the $10 HL:Source version. But for anyone who hasn't played half-life before, this is a mandatory buy.
 
[quote name='MadChedar0']I played the bejesus out of HL when it came out... but I'm more tempted to get the $10 HL:Source version.[/QUOTE]
H-L:Source is not 10 times better than vanilla H-L1.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']Really? Where have you heard of these issues? Except for the earliest days, Steam has run extremely smoothly. If you're going to throw out, "Well, this guy..." you can just save it. I can say that about anything in this world. Steam works great, it's a good service (more than just activation, so stop repeating that word over and over again), and the gaming community loves it.[/quote]

Not all of "the gaming community". I know a lot of people who can't stand it. On one forum I frequent more people hate it then ever use it.

I'm not sure when I'm "repeating that word over and over" or where I said that's all it does.

I just remembered you're one of these "activation is the bane of existence" guys, so I see where this is all coming from.
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Wanting to own something you buy is not exactly strange.

[quote name='CoffeeEdge']H-L:Source is not 10 times better than vanilla H-L1.[/QUOTE]

I've heard there are some issues with Half Life Source, that some things trigger too early or something as the distance characters can see you is different than the original engine.
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']I've heard there are some issues with Half Life Source, that some things trigger too early or something as the distance characters can see you is different than the original engine.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. Also, there are some really broad problems, such the movement speed feeling really wonky. I really don't think the ragdolls and fancy water effects are worth going out of your way for.
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']Indeed. Also, there are some really broad problems, such the movement speed feeling really wonky. I really don't think the fancy water effects are worth it.[/quote]

Yeah, the entire thing just feels off, and like you said, the minimal gains are not worth the issues. HL is still the fair superior version.
 
Cool, well in that case I don't have to feel bad about "only" having the original :)

I remember years back some group of people was trying to port Half Life to Source-like as a sort of mod almost I guess you'd say. They were trying to do it for real, like a real upgrade, not a quick and dirty port like Valve did. I wonder what happened to that? That would be cool. Not sure if the original game was required, or what.

Oh geez, I just realized there was some RPG total conversion for Half Life 2 out there years ago, and I don't know what it's called anymore. I should have grabbed that...
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']I remember years back some group of people was trying to port Half Life to Source-like as a sort of mod almost I guess you'd say. They were trying to do it for real, like a real upgrade, not a quick and dirty port like Valve did. I wonder what happened to that? That would be cool. Not sure if the original game was required, or what.[/quote]

You're thinking of the Black Mesa total conversion mod. Its still in the works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUiRDL6mMA

I'd be a bit surprised if Valve didnt offer to host it officially for them nor would i be surprised if it ended up costing $5 or $10.
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']I've heard of all kinds of Steam issues over the years. Even if it worked flawlessly, it's still Activation, so not something any of us should be using. But at any rate, it's a bit odd I've now had two major issues with Steam (including an account just disappearing) given how little I ever use it...[/quote]
I have not once ever had a problem with Steam's activation system. It's pretty much perfect, too. You enter the key, and it adds the game to your account. Once that's done, you can download the game any time you want, as many times as you want.
 
[quote name='DigitalE']I have not once ever had a problem with Steam's activation system. It's pretty much perfect, too. You enter the key, and it adds the game to your account. Once that's done, you can download the game any time you want, as many times as you want.[/quote]

Yeah, same here. Obviously, I wish we lived in a world where publishers didn't feel activation and rights management were necessary. But at the very least, Steam does it right. The stuff is tied to my account, so no matter how many times I reformat my drive, I have no issues at all. Don't even have to contact anyone to get tokens back or anything. Just put Steam on the system and redownload my stuff.
 
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