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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / May 2005valve games
well all incase you have not heard yet about 3 or 4 weeks ago valve vu games which is the parent company settled their law suit over distribution rights... it was about to go to federal trial when vu sierra accepted valves out of court settlement.. in which vu/sierra is going to stop all distribution of valve games via cd media..the only way you will be able to buy valves half life half life 2 and all the add ons is through steam download service after august 31st.. also the only way to purchase the valve half life 2 add on that is going to be released by valve later this summer will be via the steam download service.. there will be no more distributed cd's of valves games on cd retail after august 31st 2005... so anybody who didn't buy their copies of half life half life 2 or all the add ons available better get started and start buying those valves games on cd before they become extinct on august 31 2005... also was talking to the managers of my local gamestop and they told me in another 3 to 5 years retail purchases of all games on cd will be history.. they said all game companies are slowly converting all their games for digital download on the internet using broadband or high speed internet > well all incase you have not heard yet about 3 or 4 weeks ago valve > vu games which is the parent company settled their law suit over [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > all game companies are slowly converting all their games for digital > download on the internet using broadband or high speed internet Wrong, Valve already has another distributor for the addon via the retail channel. well valve has done said in it's press release d following the vu.sierra/vale settlement, that any future updatses for all valve games of half life halflife 2 and mods and add ons will totally be done though the steam download service after august 31st.. and was just told this distributor who will help valve out with some of the downloads is a nationally online download distributor they said no cd's or product code keys will be used with the new add on it has to be downloaded digitally and it will be issued what is called a digital rights management certificate that gets downloaded with the product and gets activated online from a digital rights management server.. i was told how it was going to be done was told the distributor would be handling the online digital rights management activation of the new halflife add on online >> well all incase you have not heard yet about 3 or 4 weeks ago valve >> vu games which is the parent company settled their law suit over [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >Wrong, Valve already has another distributor for the addon via the retail >channel. >well valve has done said in it's press release d following the >vu.sierra/vale settlement, that any future updatses for all valve >games of half life halflife 2 and mods and add ons will totally be >done though the steam download service after august 31st They didn't state that exactly, and the general position that has shifted in subsequent statements. If you can't be bothered to keep up with the news, please stop stating things as facts.  SignatureAndrew, contact via interpleb.blogspot.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. Please learn to construct a paragraph. > there will be no more distributed cd's of valves > games on cd retail after august 31st 2005... Valve ia looking for a new distributor In case you have heard it rgds > there will be no more distributed cd's of valves > games on cd retail after august 31st 2005... Valve is looking for a new distributor In case you have heard it rgds > well all incase you have not heard yet about 3 or 4 weeks ago valve > vu games which is the parent company settled their law suit over [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > all game companies are slowly converting all their games for digital > download on the internet using broadband or high speed internet As you say, this was 3 or 4 weeks ago. Things have changed a little since then. So the future is downloads, rather than boxes, eh? That might raise a few eyebrows. Well, a couple at least. |
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