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I bought the retail version since I am on dial-up but now I wonder what the hell is the point of the DVDs?
I already have steam, hl2 and hl ep1 installed and when I go to "install" from the dvd it jumps to steam and begins to prepare the files for installation. Well it only completed that process once with Portal but only to find out that I am at 36% at downloading who knows what for Portal. So as of now the DVDs have not come into use once in fact they are sitting on my desk while I install. What is on the DVD? It could be Pentagon secrets, gay porn, or something as delicious. I really can't tell you.
Now I will have to waste my weekend downloading whatever it is downloading now, at a lush download rate of 1 KB to 3.6 KB, and then the bullshit mandatory patches and then more patches will come out before I am done downloading the current bullshit patches.