That 6 cd edition i mentioned seems to be US-material. Europe will only get the DVD version i read. CD-switching sucks anyways.

damn right, soa bugs the hell out of me for that reason.

there was a DVD-version of soa. But it came out when dvd drives were still pretty rare, so I never got it.

Half-Life 2 now available through Steam .. appears it`s a 50 dollar game if you take the cheapest version (bronze), i guess that they will add some (a lot of?) dollars if you buy the dvd-version. For more detailed information, you can visit www.steampowered.com where i copied this from.


Tomorrow at 11 am PST, the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for purchase. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately. Half-Life 2 and other games in the Steam offerings will be made available to purchasers upon their release.

ATI/Half-Life 2 bundle owners may redeem their product key for the Bronze offer or apply their key toward the purchase of either the Silver or Gold offers, receiving a credit equal to the price of the Bronze offer.

Also tomorrow, the Counter-Strike: Source beta will close. Valve would like to thank the thousands of gamers who participated in the beta and helped make it a success.

Half-Life 2 Steam Offers

BRONZE -- $49.95

Half-Life 2*
Counter-Strike: Source
*To be made available upon product's release.


SILVER -- $59.95

Half-Life 2*
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 1: Source*
Day of Defeat: Source*
Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam
*To be made available upon products' release.


GOLD -- $89.95

Half-Life 2*
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 1: Source*
Day of Defeat: Source*
Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam
Complete Half-Life 2 Strategy Guide from Prima Games
3 different Half-Life 2 posters
Half-Life Collector's box
Half-Life 2 hat
Half-Life 2 postcard
Half-Life 2 stickers
Half-Life 2 Soundtrack CD

Chance to win a trip to Valve! (1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased).

* To be made available upon products' release.
**1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased

That's gonna be a hard cookie..I'd like to have HL1: source, and the chance to win a trip to Valve, but no freaking hats and strategy guides. I suppose I'll have to settle for the silver packacge. It's got HL1: source and comparatively the cheapest. I didn't even know that they re-did HL 1 in the source egine, pretty neat (well, if they did a good job anyway). Gives the Satises and 11bravo's among us a chance to take a peek at HL1 without having to be bothered by old graphics.

Of course, i'm waiting for the game to come out in stores, not online. And I think it's kinda ridiculous that they pre-sell CS and afterwards HL2. Aren't mods supposed to come before the original game?

christ almighty, they can stick the gold version

imo, they can stick it all. Games should be $30-35 when they come out, and $50 for the gold-plated marijuana-enabled version. Not $50 for the shit one. They can smoke it.

games are only 35 bucks in the US? Freaking hell. They're 50€ on average here, methinks. How's that for promoting piracy.

No, satis wants them to be 35 dollar. We Euro's are only fucked by using a 1:1 exchange rate between the Euro and the Dollar for the game prices.

Apparently. No matter, there are ways of playing games cheaply, such as games rental and the library. And I buy the really good ones of course. (BG2 and the likes)

Worthplaying has the scoop on the official going gold of Half-life 2. According to their information it has a confirmed ship/store date of November 16!

http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=20813