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Originally Posted by nothingx
Okay, so I'm pretty excited about HL2 since I loved the first one... and I heard that the "pre-load" has started yesterday over "Steam." Could someone fill me in on what the hell this means? What is "Steam" and what does it do?
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Steam is basically Valve's way of distributing content. As soon as a patch or game is ready, they upload it to Steam and make it instantly available for download. It also acts as a server browser. And the preload is just Valve releasing content early so that the downloads get spread out over a period of time, keep in mind you can't actually play it until Valve decrypts it. On another note the Half Life 2 preload got delayed... Valve can't seem to hold a date for anything.