Sales for HL2 & CS:Source go on sale today.

[Destrox]

Today on www.steampowered.com Valve will be finally releasing their product for sale. While this does not include Hl2 its self, it will give you Counter-strike:Source to fully play. HL2 will be released to you upon when Vivendi Universal decides to actually try to make money.

Why is valve doing this? Many have rumored to think its a jab at VU since they are delaying Valves product even longer then it needs to be.

What does this mean you will get? A receipt, and a game dl. No actual CD / DVD. Steam uses a internet downloadable package based game. You can aquire the game online anywhere, as long as your have a steam account with a CD-Key to match it.

I personally will be buying Silver. I find Gold to be a complete waste of money.

Today at 11 am PST, the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for
purchase. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately. Half-Life 2 and other games in the Steam offerings will be made available to purchasers upon their release.

ATI/Half-Life 2 bundle owners may redeem their product key for the Bronze offer or apply their key toward the purchase of either the Silver or Gold offers, receiving a credit equal to the price of the Bronze offer.

Also tomorrow, the Counter-Strike: Source beta will close. Valve would like to thank the thousands of gamers who participated in the beta and helped make it a success.

For more detailed information, please visit www.steampowered.com.

Half-Life 2 Steam Offers

BRONZE -- $49.95

* Half-Life 2*
* Counter-Strike: Source
*To be made available upon product's release.


SILVER -- $59.95

* Half-Life 2*
* Counter-Strike: Source
* Half-Life 1: Source*
* Day of Defeat: Source*
* Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam
*To be made available upon products' release.


GOLD -- $89.95

* Half-Life 2*
* Counter-Strike: Source
* Half-Life 1: Source*
* Day of Defeat: Source*
* Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam
* Complete Half-Life 2 Strategy Guide from Prima Games
* 3 different Half-Life 2 posters
* Half-Life Collector's box
* Half-Life 2 hat
* Half-Life 2 postcard
* Half-Life 2 stickers
* Half-Life 2 Soundtrack CD
* Chance to win a trip to Valve! (1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased).

* To be made available upon products' release.
**1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased. For contest details, click here.

[cjayemail]

bronze it is, the rest of the stuff doesnt seem to special to me

[the_marq]

Wha? I'm confused. When can I just go to the store and plunk down my $60 for HL:2?

[Destrox]

the_marq : bronze is "hl2" normal

hl2's multiplayer is now officially Counter-Strike

and walla, I have now officially purchased HL2 silver. I'm so happy atm, its hard to describe it.

[Destrox]

Hey, for anyone wanting to see a little somthing of how this game looks:
http://www.disp0sable.org/counter-strike-source.avi

I made a video for ya's.

11 meg, divx

[mkultra]

Destrox- Thanks for the video.

I'm really torn, I want to play CS:S really badly, but I also want a physical copy of the game. Damn Vivendi, and damn the lawyers.

[the_marq]

Originally Posted by Destrox

the_marq : bronze is "hl2" normal

hl2's multiplayer is now officially Counter-Strike

and walla, I have now officially purchased HL2 silver. I'm so happy atm, its hard to describe it.

OK that almost clears it up for me. Thanks.

One more question tho: The references to "source" in Silver and Gold; that's the source code right? Most users like me would have zero use for something like that. I mean, I already have HL and Day of Defeat, so all I need is bronze?

I hope you don't mind answering my questions, it's just easier to ask someone who understands rather than try to hack thru the marketing fluff.

[Destrox]

No, Source is the new physics engine.

Its Hl1 with the new engine, and DOD (a really cool mod) with the source engine.

the back-catalog is all other Steam based games. (CS, CS:condition zero, cs:z:deleted scenes , Hl1, DOD, Ricochet, etc)
it also comes with the dedicated server for normal and source.

also I've been playin css for about 2 hours now, its far better then normal cs.

[Krycheck]

I just purchased the silver package.

My only worry is that vendi will drag this along time in court but I'm hoping they'll see that as a bad pub already on top of a nightmare involving HL2.

[shipofshame]

Originally Posted by Krycheck

My only worry is that vendi will drag this along time in court but I'm hoping they'll see that as a bad pub already on top of a nightmare involving HL2.

I'm not too worried about it, actually.

I think VALVe just kicked their ass by releasing CS:S to the public, for those who bought HL2 over Steam.

The longer Vivendi waits, the more people will want a taste of the Source engine, the more people will buy HL2 over Steam to play CS:S immediately, which ends up in less retail sales for Vivendi.

[Mr.Deflok]

Originally Posted by Destrox

No, Source is the new physics engine.

Source is the game engine, Havoc is the Physics engine.

[Ransom342]

I bought silver. I am VERY pleased with it... after seeing how much they improved the game with the same maps has me VERY eager to start playing HL2.

[Hercules]

I bought gold... CS:Source has been great so far.
Some bugs with physics objects and getting stuck on them, but replicating that online is very hard.

[usrbinboy]

is counterstrike free at all anymore?

[whiplash13]

Been playing CS for over 5 years now. Haven't purchased CS:S yet but will some time this weekend. I can only hope it has half the success of its predicessor. CS is only free to those that own halflife.

[MrFlux]

It comes free with Half-Life 2... so essentially, yes.

[blar]

i would get it but my computer can't handle it