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Right after coming thru the tram ride and getting the pumped up grav gun...I see the first 2 Breen vids (Kill a couple squads of combine in between) and now Im at the part where you can see the weird energy beam. Theres a fence in fromt of me, that I could jump...but it seems is disabled...what...

agreed...and it worked :P

Dude it looks fine

Link? Who are these people that "pay Vivendi to create a set amount until a date"? Vlave? lol. I dont see why Vivendi would break the conventional retail sales system, no matter what thier contract with Valve. Vivendi gets paid per retail unit as its sold to the wholesaler (Or directly to the...

Yet another example of the archaic pattent system failing miserably in the digital age. The pattent will probably be revoked for being too broad. As far as the effect on consumers, it would mean this asshat will make millions charging publishers to do what theyve been doing for years. The...

I remember an article that broke down the typical split on a retail game sale and it was like 60-70% retail 20-25% publisher profit 5-10% publisher costs other than profit and whatever is left goes to the developer. As far as Valve not getting over 50%, thats impossible anyway scince the...

If games released via steam after HL2 continue to cost as much as a retail game, then I'll be inclined to agree. But as far as HL2, theres not much they can do about, theyre legally bound to sell at the same price as retail. Theyd be idiots to sign a similar contract for thier next release(s)

I imagine (And Im pretty sure theyve already said this) they had to basically re-make the entire game from scratch, because most of it just wasnt compatable with source, and the stuff that was is just too low quality. Im sure all they managed to scavenge from the old HL was old design notes, and...

Yeah and youve paid a total of $20 for access to all steam games for 2 months. Now if you want to own the game for all time to play whenever you want, you can pay the $50 for silver if you want, but if you only wanted to play HL2 through once, and could do it in a month...you pay only $10...

You really shouldnt call anyone else a troll when you cant even conduct yourself in a decent manner. If this stuff effects you on such an emotional level...please get out before you give yourself a heart attack. Youve called several people names and started flaming anyone with a difference of...

It doesnt matter if you thing the "cost" of piracy is artificial, those "losses" are taken into account and passed on to consumers, I happen to think Valve has a much better way of dealing with it then other developer/publishers. I could care less for a long winded rant about how you disaprove...

Yeah but why would they pass that revenue on to the consumer? We would like to think this would save them some overhead, and it will, but when it somes to accounting, thats negligable. Lets face it...its just more profit for them.

I think that summed up your entire post.

The article goes to great lengths to explain the method they use, but doesent even brush over how exatly it is implemented in game. (Or did I miss something) If its done tastefully, billboards, tv screens etc I could deal, especially scince these items can add immersion. But the collecting of...

Internet distrobution is not a revolutionary idea that valve is poineering...its something that was/is bound to become commonplace scince the inception of e-commerce. Publishers know this, developers know it, retailers are scared of it, and consumer dont get it...yet. But get ready for the...

So this "Pirate" you talk about would likely not pirate it if he had too do it in 2 weeks as opposed to 4? Good point...pirates are lazy...if only companies realized this and cut the gap down to a week or less, no games would ever get pirated. O wait...they will just pirate it after the game...

As far as that goes...I'm in the JTL beta and I'm not even gonna bother mentioning all the unfinished/not working crap that is in Jump to Lightspeed that they are still shoving out the door for a mid november release. (I dropped out about a week ago when they changed the way the flight model for...

Why is he stuck with the burden of proof if you can just say whatever the hell you want without providing a "source"?

Thank you so much Vinne :D Quick question, I dropped the cs shared content.gcf on my desktop....can I just delete it? I assume steam is re-downloading that stuff...?

If it really went gold already, the wouldnt hold it until the 6th...shouldnt take longer than a month to ship and the day after thanksgiving is th biggest shopping day of the year, so they wouldnt miss it.