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I very carefully planned today so that I could play Half Life 2 as soon as possible. Unfortunately it looks like I'm royally ****ed.
Basically, I made sure to get all of the preload files from a friend & setup an account (I have 28.8k internet). The files were up to date last night. Well, I get on steam after 12:00 and it unlocks Half Life 2 (after about 6 MB of downloading who knows what, according to my firewall)....and then I get offline and try to play. Hmmmm.... It won't play until I freaking update the game.
So I get back on steam and guess what it tells me. I have 1500 minutes of downloading (about 150MB) left. Look, I love valve & really want to buy off of steam so VALVE, not VIVENDI, gets my money, but this is becomming a huge pain in the ass.