Important question about Half-Life 2 and Steam

[Immaculated_R]

Ok, I already posted this once and it didn't work, here's the gist of what I am asking.
My college about the middle of last year decided to block the port that Steam uses, or block it somehow, because it takes up too much bandwidth, or some other reason unbeknownst to me. So we went from playing Counter-Strike online (I was 19-3 the last time I played...) to being unable to play ANY steam game online. What we did is go back to an earlier version of Counter-Strike and play that over the LAN.
Will we be able to play Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source without being able to use Steam? I would guess that we can play HL2 singleplayer, but not CS Source, but I'm not even sure about that. I will be royally ticked off if we can't even play HL2 singleplayer, but maybe we could talk to the administration and get them to reopen it. Anyway, that's my question, thanks in advance for helping me out.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

it did work and people answered it.

You need to verify the cd key online, then you can play Halflife 2 offline untill the day you die! capiche!?

 

[kayjay]

You've got 2 threads open now
Anyway, you'll have to verify your Halflife2 cd-key online. You might be able to get the system admins at your school to re-open the ports somehow. Go have a chat to them

 

[Immaculated_R]

WOW that was fast. I got it, thanks a lot. But no Counter-Strike I take it.

 

[Immaculated_R]

Ok, that's what I thought. Thanks a lot guys. I think I'll get a group of us gamers and go talk to the computer admin guy, maybe we can get him to come around. If so, look for Immaculated_R at the top of the leaderboards! lol

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Counter Strike is online. So you need to play that through steam that way, however if you play lan it should be okay, after you have verified the cd key of course.

 

[jacen]

to verify your account

U HAVE TO GET ONLINE IN STEAM WITH UR PC AT LEAST ONCE
IF U CANT CONNECT TO STEAM AT ALL U CANT PLAY HL2 SINGLEPLAYER OR CS:S AT ALL.

ppl
is it really so hard to understand?