If HL2 isn't released for 6 Months...

[Peabody McFee]

What am I supposed to do with 4Gigs of junk on my HDD?!

 

[joule]

What?
What's the "junk" on your HDD?

 

[aeroripper]

Take out the trash?

 

[Peabody McFee]

These useless preload files. Also isn't it going to cost Valve to pay for the extra bandwidth of the people who have deleted the full preloads and preloaded them again when a release date is announced?

 

[Asuka]

Leave them thats what im doing.

 

[Ballsaccio]

Lol!!!!!

 

[Platinum]

L;JADSF;LJSA;DLJF ... its not coming out in 6 months .... lajsdfl;asdjf;lajsdl;fjsd

 

[A True Canadian]

Those files won't change anyway. I you decide to get rid of them, then download them again. Or buy the retail version instead.

 

[Pressure]

You can just delete it. If the game ever comes out then you can either redownload or buy the CDs and install the files again.

 

[Platinum]

yes what pressure said

 

[poseyjmac]

These useless preload files. Also isn't it going to cost Valve to pay for the extra bandwidth of the people who have deleted the full preloads and preloaded them again when a release date is announced?

true, yet another reason for valve to be pissed at vivendi if they delay for 6 months. they spent a lot of $$ on all this extra bandwidth to preload hl2 and cs:S, when many people will just be preloading it again anyway. :/

 

[Xac493]

I hope we don't have to wait 6 months..... I lost my hl cd key so i can't even play hl1... too bad opf cd keys don't work. I havn't preloaded yet and I prob won't untill it goes gold

 

[Doofus]

Xac, if you have a steam account made with the CDKey you don't need the CDKey anymore... and opf will work, but since you say it doesn't you've probably already registered it.

 

[Ballsaccio]

LOL!!! You guys should get brand new cars and let them sit in your driveways until you are ALLOWED to be handed the keys!
You have given up parking space for no apparent reason.
Amazing.

 

[Ownzed]

LOL!!! You guys should get brand new cars and let them sit in your driveways until you are ALLOWED to be handed the keys!
You have given up parking space for no apparent reason.
Amazing.

Ok...we're talking Hard Drive space and HL2 not cars and driveways...

 

[Xac493]

Xac, if you have a steam account made with the CDKey you don't need the CDKey anymore... and opf will work, but since you say it doesn't you've probably already registered it.

Lost my hl cd-key before steam... there was a while on steam were you could use keygened cd keys...OPF cd keys just don't work, if you have original HL cdkey you get opf and all that with that cd key.

 

[Pressure]

LOL!!! You guys should get brand new cars and let them sit in your driveways until you are ALLOWED to be handed the keys!
You have given up parking space for no apparent reason.
Amazing.

Look at it this way. Let's say 1 gig = 1 car. If it is like this than I have 4 cars in a driveway that can fit 120. Including Windows and other games I think I have plenty of room to put other stuff.

That is assuming the HL2 files take up 4 gigs like he said. I haven't really look but I think it's only 2 gigs, which does even less damage.

 

[Spugmaster]

Ok...we're talking Hard Drive space and HL2 not cars and driveways...

It's a metaphor. But I guess it was lost on you...

 

[Grand Architect]

Burn the files to CD/DVD and delete them off your Hard Drive, no harm no foul

 

[Ballsaccio]

Can you burn it and pass it around to all your friends? Then someday they might get a magic key and play the game. Or they could walk into Best Buy and pick one up on release day. I did it with DOOM3.

 

[The Mullinator]

Look at it this way. Let's say 1 gig = 1 car. If it is like this than I have 4 cars in a driveway that can fit 120. Including Windows and other games I think I have plenty of room to put other stuff.

That is assuming the HL2 files take up 4 gigs like he said. I haven't really look but I think it's only 2 gigs, which does even less damage.

Plus once the game is released you will have to take up just as much space on your hard drive anyway. So you can either get the cars now or later, unless you are going to be short on hard drive space from whatever amount of porn you decide to download (Or if you just have a small hard drive) then there really isn't going to be any harm done.

 

[Letters]

If HL2 isn't released for six months, I'm going to be one of those people blabbering about nonsense as they roam the streets at night. ;(

 

[Grand Architect]

Can you burn it and pass it around to all your friends? Then someday they might get a magic key and play the game. Or they could walk into Best Buy and pick one up on release day. I did it with DOOM3.

To answer I'll quote...

Is it possible for people who have purchased Half-Life 2 through Steam, to create backup CDs/DVD so they won't have to go through downloading the whole thing again upon reinstallation?

On a related note, would it be legal, having purchased through Steam, to make a copy of a friends Half-Life 2 CDs/DVD, since you already own a license?

Yes. Yes.

The cache files (what you would be copying) are separate from authentication.

 

[Ballsaccio]

Thank you. That solves every issue on this thread.