HL on Steam... Created 18 years ago2006-02-21 10:40:21 UTC by Strider

This is gonna' make me sound dumb, but here goes:
How exactly does one make Retail HL1 run through Steam? Do you simply install it into SteamApps... along side the other Apps? Or do you need a HL1 cache? I want to get all my HL products running through steam so i can update them all from the one place. Help me with this, i love you long time.

in steam, select "Activate product i already own" cant remember where it is. probably in the browse catalogue.

now, about this man-love you mentioned.

i love you long time, not gay. Any way to move HL1 to the Steam directory? EDIT: NO WAY! It says someone else is using my CD-Key on Steam!!! Bastards

New problem, some bastard used my CD-Key to register his copy of HL on steam... bastard. Any way to get around this that doesnt involve buying a new copy?

Nope. Or you could get a new copy within 14 days if you have the receipt or something like that.

Contact the Steam support team or such, or read their pages (recommended to do that first, anyway)... it may be a SIERRA problem, as they had duplicate CD-keys at some time.

You can regester on a BS cd key or a OP4 cd key thats what I did because I lost my HL one

Oh cool ill try that, ta Zombeh! Valve want me to send them 10 US dollars for a replacement one if i send away the original coer plus bunch of other crap - bugger that, too much effort for a CD key

besides hl GOTY is AU$15, which is about $10 US but since aust has a markup of about 100% its prob $5 in US lol. and thats no p&h also
and thats all the games
on the other hand buy the ultra mega premium pack when afterma.......i mean "half-life 2: episode 1" comes out if you dont have hl2

i have HL2, that sucks how HL2: 'epsiode 1' isnt initially gonna be released through retail... dont know how im gonna get a legal copy (i dont buy htings from the net, why? why indeed, i just dont like/trust giving away details over the net, no matter how secure!).

Im gonna fish out my HL:Op4 CD Key soon and try that.

i think ep1 will be retail straight away like hl2

not according to every interview ive read about Aftermath.

hmmm thats odd

Valve dates the expansion pack for its PC blockbuster; all-inclusive Platinum Edition to launch simultaneously.

Nearly a year and a half after Half-Life 2 was released, the blockbuster PC shooter will finally get its first expansion pack. Today, Doug Lombardi, Valve Software's director of marketing, confirmed to GameSpot that the developer is now shooting for an April 24 release for Half-Life 2: Aftermath. Previously, the PC expansion pack was set for a November 2005 "launch window," which it obviously missed.

To date, Valve has been largely mum about the details of Aftermath. However, when speaking to GameSpot last June, designer/programmer Robin Walker said that the expansion will focus on major characters who got short shrift in the original Half-Life 2 and include the high dynamic range lighting effects featured in the free Half-Life 2: Lost Coast bonus level.

Half-Life 2: Aftermath will retail for $19.99 and be available via Steam's download service or a boxed version distributed by Electronic Arts. EA will also distribute the boxed versions of a new Half-Life 2: Platinum Edition, which will include Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Aftermath, Counter-Strike: Source, and Day of Defeat: Source in a single package. Pricing for the Platinum Edition was not available as of press time.

source: gamespot

note the word 'simultaneously'

I dont care about the Platinum Edition, how new is that interview? i read about 5 last week and they all said no retail! Saying Vivendi Universal was in talks about it, its good EA have snapped it up then.

no vivendi was killed off ages ago, now its ea, who are relatively fast at distributing stuff.

Yeah Vivendi and Valve had the feud ages ago, but they were talking about reuniting, obviously not now, good, EA is a good company.

EA is a shit company.

I do believe that there will be a retail release of Episode One. This retail pack will come with HLDM:S, which should be interesting.