Its not that they won't, Valve has the weekend off. Which means the earliest they would unlock it is Monday. They won't unlock it 12 or 24 hours early, there's no point for all the trouble it creates.
How far up your arm has poopstains on it from pulling that out of your ass?
What you said is simply not true, unless you have a great system and only 256 mb ram.
Munro,
While that is correct, the thread starter's focus was only on someone giving out steam information to people who would download, unlock, and go into offline mode.
Everyone knows the risks associated with giving someone your CD-KEY.
The starter's main point was that this is now...
Seems like a two for one, unless Valve deactivates the steam account created by people who bought retail early, which more likely than not will not happen soon.
Also keep in mind that your CPU is the worst bottleneck you can have in terms of general performance. Not only does it slow your video card, it slows ram access, disk access, and internet access as well as just fps.
[edit] It'll run fine bro. A gig of ram really helps nowadays...
The sky_wasteland02 error is from not setting the skybox in the map properties screen. That's the default sky and unfortunately its not a valid one. Look in the skybox thread, use search.