So what will ship with the game?

[dimalife]

With all the different things announced and some older announcment, i'm kinda confused. First, a while ago Valve were talking about releasing three different versions of the game (something about with mods, without mods, or whatnot). i havn't heard anything about it since, so anyone know what's up with that? now also there was the announcment of cs ported and of the original halflife ported. Will both be in box with the normal retain version? which cs will be released seperatly, etc..

thanks,

 

[Diablo2k]

Noone knows for sure yet, look in the other topics about this subject for more info, guess this will be closed soon...

 

[scribblehead]

I think the old announcements still apply, until we get new information.

So far according to the info Gabe has given, it sounds like Cs will be sold seperatly from HL2

 

[-JeZ-]

I'm just going to hope that the Collectors Edition of the game ships at the saem time as the other versions. If not I shall not be a happy chappy

 

[Dalamari]

It will come with Alyx, she will do sexual pleasures for you.

Prolly a sticker/poster and a manual (and of course the CD)

 

[scribblehead]

don't forget the lifesize inflateable puppet....easy-to-use.....ummhh yeah

 

[smwScott]

From what they've said it appears that they don't intend on shipping the ports with the game. Whether or not they'll charge for them, or how they will sell them, is unkown.

I hope they don't follow through with that stupid pricing plan though. The Steam subscription is fine, but the two versions of Half-Life 2 is not. Valve needs to remember that this is still a game, and they're not going to get away with charging more for multiplayer, which most games ship with. And if they were thinking about charging a normal price for the online version and a budget price for the single player, then they'd just be losing money.

 

[Seth064]

When watching the vids and hear what Gabe said, I gathered that CS-Source will be released the same day as HL2 but you will have to buy it sepretly(<----bad spelling)..
Dont know about the other ports tho..

 

[Apos]

Valve needs to remember that this is still a game, and they're not going to get away with charging more for multiplayer, which most games ship with.

For the main retail package, the standard 50$ package, you will get some kind of Multiplayer game. I'll eat my hat if not. If they want to sell SP-only versions for less (like, 35-40$) that's cool of them too. But I think it's pretty darn certain that the price you expect to pay for a SP/MP game will get you what you have come to expect, whatever the details of how they are going to sell all the other mods and features.

 

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[KagePrototype]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but here's something interesting. If you watch the E3 video from Gamespy, the HL2 menu doesn't have a multiplayer option. The only options are "new game, lod gave, options, quit". Seeing the game is apparently finished, and all they're doing is polishing up, then they'd have to either have the HL2 deathmatch as seperate, or it's something else i.e all of this source engine stuff.

Which got me thinking more....those seperate packages for HL2 all make sense. You have the single-player only, with no multiplayer. No also have the single-player and multi-player version. Either the one running at E3 was the SP only version, or the SP + MP version has all the new source conversions with it.

 

[dscowboy]

And if they were thinking about charging a normal price for the online version and a budget price for the single player, then they'd just be losing money.

What makes you think that? I think those stupid Wal-Mart games (Deer Hunter and the like) prove that people will buy cheap games just because they're cheap. With a cheaper single-player only version available, more people will buy HL2. Saying that "they'd just be losing money" is a senseless blakent statement. 3 million customers * $30 is a lot more than 1 million customers * $50.

 

[dscowboy]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but here's something interesting. If you watch the E3 video from Gamespy, the HL2 menu doesn't have a multiplayer option.

Valve has Steam now, it will be the launcher for all HL2-related games. If you have a multiplayer-included keycode, it will unlock the multiplayer game(s) in Steam. Why have a menu item inside the single-player game, Steam will have icons for whatever mulitplayer games there are.

 

[dscowboy]

but you will have to buy it sepretly(<----bad spelling)..

To my knowledge, there has been nothing at all saying that you will have to buy the ports seperately.