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>the disc is little more than a key to get to the current version of the game that just gets downloaded. Hoo boy this burned me bad when I bought Half Life 2.
by freehunter 10y ago
>the disc is little more than a key to get to the current version of the game that just gets downloaded.
Hoo boy this burned me bad when I bought Half Life 2. It was 2004 and I had a dial-up connection, so I bought the DVD from the store instead of purchasing it from Steam. No way I could download that big of a game in any reasonable time. Well, it turns out the DVD I bought from the store was just an installer for Steam and a CD key, the game didn't actually come on the disc. So Christmas day, I'm attempting to download 5GB on 56k along with everyone else who just got the game that day.
- khedoros1 10y agoWhat I remember about the original release of the game was that the DVD had the game, but it was encrypted. You could pre-load it onto your machine, and when it released, they'd provide the key over Steam, and the game would decrypt. Or maybe I'm confusing that with a pre-release encrypted file that you could download ahead of time, to save the download later. I'll have to look at my disks when I get home; I was pretty sure that they had the full data for the game on them.