Did I buy a bad game?

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poe10

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I just bought Half-life 2 and when I registered my game online, the only options I got was to download the entire game. I only have dial-up, and downloading a 3.5 Gb game is impossible. I bought the CD, but I am being given no option to simply load the game. What's up??????
 
I have dial up, it took me a while too. Deal with it.
 
If you have the CD's it should just install from them, and then download a few updates before you can play.
 
So, let me get this straight...

I have to buy a CD that is labeled Half-life 2, get it home and discover it is not actually Half-life 2, but a crummy online program, and then I have to download the entire game online? How did this stupid game ever sell an copies?????
 
OmegaX,

Did you say CDs, as in plural? My case only came with one CD. Are there more that are supposed to be in there?
 
poe10 said:
So, let me get this straight...

I have to buy a CD that is labeled Half-life 2, get it home and discover it is not actually Half-life 2, but a crummy online program, and then I have to download the entire game online? How did this stupid game ever sell an copies?????
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How did your stupid parents decide not to abort a stupid baby like you!?

You buy HL2, it installs steam, steam installs game online, get offline when it's done installing, and play.
Steam has benefits for you and the company.

Oh, and uh, kidding about the baby thing, don't cry.
 
Bring your computer to a friend with broadband. Thats what I did before when I had dial-up
 
Errrr okay.

If you bought Half-Life 2 retail (through a shop), you should be able to install Half-Life 2 (not to download anything apart from updates - which fixes the bugs in the game (I think this is optional). You need the internet to activate the game once and thats it, you can play offline anytime you want.

If you bought the game through Steam store (online store), you have to download the game.

Did you buy it retail or through the online Steam store?
 
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

delete it.












in other news: welcome to 3 years ago! \o/
 
Harryz said:
Errrr okay.

If you bought Half-Life 2 retail (through a shop), you should be able to install Half-Life 2 (not to download anything apart from updates - which fixes the bugs in the game (I think this is optional). You need the internet to activate the game once and thats it, you can play offline anytime you want.

If you bought the game through Steam store (online store), you have to download the game.

Did you buy it retail or through the online Steam store?
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You'll have to install over Steam with a retail copy as well. Thats the thing
 
Oppressor said:
You'll have to install over Steam with a retail copy as well. Thats the thing
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What do you mean you have to "install over Steam". Buying through the Steam store or retail, you have to install Steam either way.

His posts are not very coherent, what I think hes trying to say is, he bought a retail copy of Half-Life 2 (he has the internet), but there is no installation button to install the game. I don't have a retail copy of Half-Life 2 (only a digital Steam one), but when you activate it, doesn't it install it at the same time?
 
No you didn't buy a bad game. It just doesn't work.
 
You're not understanding us, are you?

Install your game using the cds you have. Then let the autopatcher work for a little while. Then you just switch to offline mode for the rest.
 
Sir, you have been tricked in to the cyber world of lies by Valve.
 
I think I had a similar problem when I first got the game. The only way of installing it I could find was to download it through Steam. Fortunately it wasn't long before I got broadband, so I waited until then. Whenever I needed to install after that though, it installed straight off the disk :/
 
WTF@this thread. Not just the OP but the replies... Just flaming ignorance all round.

Install. From. Your. CD(or DVD, whatever).

There is no need to download Gbytes of anything. When you first install, Steam will do some stuff online including decrypting the install files and downloading updates. I remember reading that the unencryption is actually more dependent on your processor speed than internet speed, although this may be guff.

The whole process will take you about 2-3 hours on dial-up if it happens the same way it did for me (yes, I was on dial-up). It is a pain in the arse but there is no getting around it.

If you're trying to download the entire game over the net then you're doing something very wrong in what is a painfully simple process.
 
Thanks for the input. I've been doing the gaming thing for a while, but never encountered this before. The one CD I got in the folder only loaded Steam, and then after I gave the CD Key it told me it was going to download around 3000 MB of data. I un-checked everything except Half-Life 2 and got it down to "only" 1810 MB.

I was just wondering if I got a returned CD and they repackaged it w/o all the disks. Good 'ole Wal-Mart can't be trusted, you know. I'll try it one more time and give it another 30 minutes or so. If it doesn't finish, I'll see if I can get a return.

Or wait another 3 years for DSL to come to my town. :-(
 
This is weird, what is the point of the discs, you obviously got Steam, was it from the discs or an online download where did it come from
 
Was it 1 CD or 1 DVD? Because if it's only 1 CD then obviously the game isn't on it. The original boxed HL2 was 5 CDs. (including CSS)
 
poe10 said:
So, let me get this straight...

I have to buy a CD that is labeled Half-life 2, get it home and discover it is not actually Half-life 2, but a crummy online program, and then I have to download the entire game online? How did this stupid game ever sell an copies?????
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what we have here is a nublet
 
Laivasse said:
WTF@this thread. Not just the OP but the replies... Just flaming ignorance all round.

Install. From. Your. CD(or DVD, whatever).

There is no need to download Gbytes of anything. When you first install, Steam will do some stuff online including decrypting the install files and downloading updates. I remember reading that the unencryption is actually more dependent on your processor speed than internet speed, although this may be guff.

The whole process will take you about 2-3 hours on dial-up if it happens the same way it did for me (yes, I was on dial-up). It is a pain in the arse but there is no getting around it.

If you're trying to download the entire game over the net then you're doing something very wrong in what is a painfully simple process.
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Autopatch Steam maybe? THINK ABOUT THAT? DIDJA, HUH! o_O_O_O_O_O_O_O-o-o_O-o_o-O-O_O!

Srsly, what version of Steam + games are on a new retail copy? I forgets.
 
Right, everyone that isn't actually ****ing helping this guy needs to get the fuck out of this thread. Right now. Go boost your e-penises in General Off-Topic Chat or something.

Now, poe10, could you tell us how the product that you bought looks like? As far as I'm aware, retail Half-Life 2 versions are always shipped with a version of HL2 (albeit outdated). Sure, you have to install Steam and maybe update it, but that's hardly a few megabytes.

Normally, you should be able to install the CD version (or in your case, DVD version, seeing as you only have one disc) and then just let it update via Steam. But you say that Wal-Mart does some weird things with the packages, so that's why I would like to know what the product looks like. If possible, take a few pictures of the insides (but hide the CD-key code!) and upload them to www.imageshack.us or something else and put them in your reply.
 
when it installs steam,close it right away and dont do anything with it. then it should either continue installing off of the cd/dvd whatever you have. if you closed the cd installation then open it add it should detect if you have steam or not and just continue on through the install,but like others have said; you might not have all the cds.
 
I remember the unencryption part taking a long time. This has nothing to do with download but your PC performance. It probably will download a number of updates for HL2 and Steam too though. Not sure why it would have to download the WHOLE game cache seeing as it should be on the CD/DVD.

Slower PC + dial up = awhile until you will be playing. But after you are setup then just put steam to OFFLINE and it should play perfectly fine.

Not many people who play Valve games have dial-up. Also, last time I checked the box says Internet required.
 
Asus said:
Not many people who play Valve games have dial-up. Also, last time I checked the box says Internet required.
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A fair point, but I think it's also the case that a larger proportion of 56k users would be using Steam in offline mode so they wouldn't have surveys pop up. When I was on dial up I kept Steam in offline mode without having it connect for months.
Drackard said:
Sorry, but I don't see why there was any need for all the abuse he got
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Agreed... Effing sycophants.
 
Drackard said:
Sorry, but I don't see why there was any need for all the abuse he got all because he didn't know or understand what to do and lol at being reported :upstare:
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What, who the hell would report this
 
I got a warning for apparently posting what someone considered an abusive message towards the guy calling him a nublet :upstare:
 
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