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Originally Posted by Coppertop
Maybe requiring the CD in the drive is Valve's punishment to you for giving some of your (their?) money to Vivendi (retail copy)?  |
Actually, retail CD are sold through the distributor. In this case, Vivendi. Like all video game distributors, Vivendi requires copy protection. They would not let Valve sell the game retail unless it had copy protection, specifically, the CD requirement.