Well I've done it. About five minutes ago I cancelled one (I still want the box, call me old fasioned) of my orders from Amazon. The reason, I REALLY want to see CS:S. So I broke down and purchased the silver package of HL2. What do I get, not olny HL2 but also CSCZ and the promise of a whole slew of interesting sounding titles.
Now while this great surprise of CSCZ makes me moderately happy (I certainly wasn't going to pay anything extra for it) it also makes me apprehensive of all the legal wranglings and the hopes people have of an early release date. Vivendi, is losing A LOT of money through steam and I doubt they will allow Valve to sell through steam. They may have well found "showstopping" bugs in HL2 but they certainly can't just sit on the RC, THAT is what brought them into court in the first place with CSCZ and the delay after going gold.
Whether HL2 goes gold tomorrow or next year (I kinda hope it goes gold next year because then Monro ows me a copy) its going to be a great game. But don't get your hopes up whenever joe blogger or random_poster2004 lets fly his uncle's wife's father's best friend's daughter is dating someone who works at valve and let her know it's going gold tomorrow.
Edit:
In the time it took me to order, browse around, and type this, about 30 minutes, CS:CZ is 80% and CS:S is about 30%. Really if you have broadband don't think twice about getting HL2 over steam.
Now while this great surprise of CSCZ makes me moderately happy (I certainly wasn't going to pay anything extra for it) it also makes me apprehensive of all the legal wranglings and the hopes people have of an early release date. Vivendi, is losing A LOT of money through steam and I doubt they will allow Valve to sell through steam. They may have well found "showstopping" bugs in HL2 but they certainly can't just sit on the RC, THAT is what brought them into court in the first place with CSCZ and the delay after going gold.
Whether HL2 goes gold tomorrow or next year (I kinda hope it goes gold next year because then Monro ows me a copy) its going to be a great game. But don't get your hopes up whenever joe blogger or random_poster2004 lets fly his uncle's wife's father's best friend's daughter is dating someone who works at valve and let her know it's going gold tomorrow.
Edit:
In the time it took me to order, browse around, and type this, about 30 minutes, CS:CZ is 80% and CS:S is about 30%. Really if you have broadband don't think twice about getting HL2 over steam.