Half-Life 2 Pre-Loading Begins

[Mr.Tweak]

Half-Life 2 pre-loading begins to Steam account holders today. Over the coming days, those who have selected the pre-loading option will have encrypted Half-Life 2 files delivered to their PC. No purchase is required to pre-load HL2, but is required to activate the game. Purchase options will be released soon. Then, the moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be authenticated and ready to start playing. For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.

[Yawgm0th]

I get a message about the servers being to busy... No suprise there.

So this is actually the entire game requiring activation? If so, the people who work at Valve must be retarded, or just very confident in there piracy prevention. It should be cracked within weeks or even days (Condition Zero was...). Then you have a bunch of people who can play it single-player, but not multiplayer.

Either way, this is quite exciting as it may mean the game will be released soon. That, or a ploy from Valve to make people think that so the game will regain lost attention...

[neomyaclyk]

Half life 2 has never lost my attention, it's been on my mind since i beat hl1 back in 98

[Bomb58]

got mine reserved