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Originally Posted by Kodega
It's because Half Life 2 got caught up in some legal matters having to do with Steam. So, they released CS:S now because it was ready to go out and didn't have the legal issues that HL2 was having. Now if it had been DOD:S I would have already ordered the Steam package, but I'll wait for acctual disks.
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The legal matters don't really pertain specifically to Half-Life 2, but I think anything with "Half-Life".
Vivendi was getting pissed because Valve was releasing Half-Life to Cyber cafes and not giving them a proper share of the profits since it was through Steam.
And I would bet Counter-Strike is the IP of Valve, whereas Half-Life is Vivendi's IP.
So Valve could go ahead and release CS:Source ahead of schedule since they held the rights to it, and had the proprietary software to do so.
And yes, I bought the Gold package immediately as it becamse available
