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There just seems to be too many adverse things going for HL2 right now (I'll still be buying it despite me using an FX5900). There's the 3 different versions of HL2 where one is subscription based, the use of Steam and the game running very badly on nVidai chipsets. The subscription thing to me sounds like they're moving towards making ALL online games pay to play. FPS games should never be pay to play (maybe if they're co-op though). I'm guessing that now so many people are switching onto Broadband console games and having to pay that people will start expecting to be charged for playing PC games too.
Also, I heard a rumour that in order to play Half-Life 2 Single-Player you had to connect to the internet to authenticate your usuage of the game. Whether you had to keep that connection open while playing the game I'm not sure, but it outright sucks. Personally, if I'm not downloading anything and am playing a game on the PC, I'll turn off the cable modem, kill all unecessary background applications and play my game.
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