Recent content by Linki

It hasn't had as much play as Half Life 1 thats for sure, Steam is partly to blame. That is all.

They should consider it. I admitted defeated and connected to the net as a one time deal to verify my copy. I don't want to have to go back and and download xMB everytime a patch comes out (expecially not over 56K) , I'd rather go to a net cafe, save it to a USB Key or whatever and apply the...

Will they ever be released as patches are normally released for current games? As in a single executable, or a zip etc.

You're right. Sorry.

Games will never be perfect, your opinion of a game is never fact. Deal with it.

NOCD patches aren't illegal. However they CAN be used for illegal purposes.

'Z' for suit zoom, and

* Like the install process ** Granted. *** Still suffered from Steam problems. Partly to do with busy servers and partly because as a retail buyer, you're used to install and go, not install, connect, verify, de-crypt. And you have to go through the same process in the event of a format etc.

Steam is more evil than something really evil. It's a bad idea.

The subscription pending message took around twenty minutes to go away, now it's "unlocking half-life 2 game files" I'm seriously going to think twice before buying any game that requires this malarky in the future.

Yup. Exactly the same here, I'm having to use the network at work to register too, so they have 3 and a half hours to resolve it, this net verification was such a bad idea.

Has anyone else come across this and how long does it take to resolve?

Work, I'll buy it on my lunch hour, then I have to wait till 5:30 to play. Thanks to this stupid idea of net based activation I have to bring my PC into work. Thankfully I'm in I.T Support. :)

Because it's pointless, you can't play the thing.

Hell no.