Yesterday I installed Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and played it for a bit, then decided to install Steam and put CS into it to see how many old CS servers there were.
You see, I was debating getting rid of CS, as I didn't play it much and I didn't want to play with just bots. I had gotten rid of all my other Valve games anyway, so this would've been the last one.
There are still a lot of servers around, so I assumed "fine", they're still playing classic DM.
Then I thought I'd try to play Half-Life through Steam when it wasn't on the system and see what happened. Much to my surprise, I was riding the train to Black Mesa within ten minutes of choosing to install the game!!
I deduced that there must be a lot of HL code in CS, and Steam simply downloaded the rest and activated it, which means I have HL back again!
I found I was able to INSTALL and PLAY Team Fortress Classic, DM Classic and Ricochet as well.
Then I thought, OPPOSING FORCE! There CAN'T be any OF code in CS, so that won't work! But once again, it DID! So did Blue Shift!
I got so excited at this point I assumed my Steam account must've remembered all my old CD keys, even though I'd thrown the other games away, and I realised the same may be true of HL2, so I started an installation of that as well...
...BUGGER, it's asking for my HL2 CD key!
Oh, well, I thought I'd be too good to last.
The whole point of this message, what I'm trying to say is, that just because I bought Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (which includes Steam client), I have all other HL1 games available to me through Steam, for FREE?
If that is true, then my opinion of Steam has just irrevocably changed for the better! :naughty:
I still have to buy HL2 again if I want it, though - bummer.
You see, I was debating getting rid of CS, as I didn't play it much and I didn't want to play with just bots. I had gotten rid of all my other Valve games anyway, so this would've been the last one.
There are still a lot of servers around, so I assumed "fine", they're still playing classic DM.
Then I thought I'd try to play Half-Life through Steam when it wasn't on the system and see what happened. Much to my surprise, I was riding the train to Black Mesa within ten minutes of choosing to install the game!!
I deduced that there must be a lot of HL code in CS, and Steam simply downloaded the rest and activated it, which means I have HL back again!
I found I was able to INSTALL and PLAY Team Fortress Classic, DM Classic and Ricochet as well.
Then I thought, OPPOSING FORCE! There CAN'T be any OF code in CS, so that won't work! But once again, it DID! So did Blue Shift!
I got so excited at this point I assumed my Steam account must've remembered all my old CD keys, even though I'd thrown the other games away, and I realised the same may be true of HL2, so I started an installation of that as well...
...BUGGER, it's asking for my HL2 CD key!
Oh, well, I thought I'd be too good to last.
The whole point of this message, what I'm trying to say is, that just because I bought Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (which includes Steam client), I have all other HL1 games available to me through Steam, for FREE?
If that is true, then my opinion of Steam has just irrevocably changed for the better! :naughty:
I still have to buy HL2 again if I want it, though - bummer.