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Don't warez Half-Life 2
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Littleberu
Banned
Har har har. Bullshit.
If they haven't released a playable demo or even any kind of benchmark test, how the hell am I going to know if the game even works on my PC? It's bizarre how warez is my only option to see if the game even works, especially for a big game like Half-life 2. I mean, as that article says, they spent $40 million on HL2. How about spending a few dollars to make a demo?
Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
This news doesnt make sense does it?
The only possible group concerned are those who cant install HL2,so they pirate it and use it with thier Steam account,but if they have a valid account the only reason not to download it via Steam is its slow speed,so Valve is basicly punishing its users for thier own faults?
The only possible group concerned are those who cant install HL2,so they pirate it and use it with thier Steam account,but if they have a valid account the only reason not to download it via Steam is its slow speed,so Valve is basicly punishing its users for thier own faults?
Burger
Member
Kiriku said:
Your asking for too much.
Valve worked their asses off just to get this game out the door. The game we have waited sooo long for. Imagine the backlash if a month ago they said "Oh the game is totally finished, but we are gonna spend a month or two making a demo, then we will release both at the same time"
Here is an idea, buy the game, or don't. If you wanna wait for a demo, fine, but I can't recall there ever being a HL1 demo. Warezing it because there aint no demo proves you are weaksauce.
Burger said:
Well, in the PC game market, where there's absolutely no guarantee that something will actually work on your machine, releasing a demo really isn't all that much to ask for. It gives the potential customer an idea how the game will run, if at all. If somebody just goes out and blindly purchases the game, then find out that there's serious performance issues, then they're most likely SOL. I make it a point to only buy PC games from places that will allow a return of the opened product if the thing doesn't work, and the last time I bought a game (probably around two years ago), it was pretty tough to find such a place. I imagine that the situation isn't much better nowadays.
They don't necessarily have to release one before the game, either. They actually did release a demo for the original Half-Life, called Uplink, which not only gave a good look at what the game was about and how it ran, but also was an entirely different area than what was in the original game.
Now, I don't know if Valve has announced any plans for a demo later on, but I don't think it's unreasonable for somebody to want to make sure that something will actually work before spending the cash on it.
yes. i played this for the first time a few months ago. awesome demo. came out well after hl1, as i'm sure you know.Vlad said:
but! zero hour (or something like that,) was out before hl1. it consisted of several segements from the full game. i never played it so i don't know if it was a public demo, or just something distributed to a few in the industry. yknow, to generate buzz.
epmode said:
I seem to remember there being some big incident over the public release of Zero Hour, although I never played it myself. I think it was either some beta thing that was never supposed to be released, or something like a pack-in with some video cards or something...
I can't remember exactly, but I definitely think I remember the thing not being meant for public consumption.
Uplink, though, was a pretty neat demo, too. I always loved how they ended it, too. A nice change from just having a demo end at the end of a level.
Dark, what videocard do you have and what resolution are you running?
Reason I ask is that I know you have a gig of ram. I only have 512MB PC3200 RAM and I barely get any stutter at all. But I have a 128 MB 9800PRO at 425/385 setting. The most I ever had were a couple during that long boat sequence but everything happens so fast. Otherwise the entire game is running smooth as butter, and I just reached the mines.
I run at 1024 X 768, everything on high with 8AF filtering enabled in game (No AA though I barely see any jaggies at all).
I'm sure Valve will offer a demo eventually. Probably have to sign up for a steam account to get it as well.
Reason I ask is that I know you have a gig of ram. I only have 512MB PC3200 RAM and I barely get any stutter at all. But I have a 128 MB 9800PRO at 425/385 setting. The most I ever had were a couple during that long boat sequence but everything happens so fast. Otherwise the entire game is running smooth as butter, and I just reached the mines.
I run at 1024 X 768, everything on high with 8AF filtering enabled in game (No AA though I barely see any jaggies at all).
I'm sure Valve will offer a demo eventually. Probably have to sign up for a steam account to get it as well.
Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
Mrbob said:Dark, what videocard do you have and what resolution are you running?
Reason I ask is that I know you have a gig of ram. I only have 512MB PC3200 RAM and I barely get any stutter at all. But I have a 128 MB 9800PRO at 425/385 setting. The most I ever had were a couple during that long boat sequence but everything happens so fast. Otherwise the entire game is running smooth as butter, and I just reached the mines.
I run at 1024 X 768, everything on high with 8AF filtering enabled in game (No AA though I barely see any jaggies at all).
I'm sure Valve will offer a demo eventually. Probably have to sign up for a steam account to get it as well.
Turn the 2X AA on,it does nearly no impact on Framerate,like 1.5 FPS less.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
There is no legitimate reason to pirate software. If you're going to do it, well, there's not much anyone can do to stop you -- but attempting to justify it isn't going to change the fact that it's illegal, unethical, selfish and greedy.
MrPing1000
Member
There was a HL demo btw. Was kinda groovy to
shpankey
not an idiot
i alwalys pay for games and think everyone should. having said that, if there was ever a game to pirate (and there's not, not even this one) this would be the one... with all this steam bullshit, i so bad want to see it fail and i can't stand the idea of having to log into an internet service just to play a single player game. the problem is the apparent quality of this game (i'm told, as i've yet to play it) is probably going to prevent that. i can only hope though.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
i'm running into major stutter playing half-life 2. no frame rate drops, really, just random stutter. i'm thinking it's because i haven't formatted in over a year, though.
Doom_Bringer
Banned
I got the game over steam, took 8 hours to download. Awesome game, must buy if you like FPS.
CrimsonSkies
Member
I hate having Steam on my system. Just one more stupid program cluttering up my computer. Steam should be an option.
buck naked
Member
The OEM demo that came out before Half-Life, 'Zero Hour' or whatever, was just the first 4 levels.
It was distributed with video cards and things like that - kind of a low-run demo. It may have made it onto PC magazine cover disks eventually.
It was distributed with video cards and things like that - kind of a low-run demo. It may have made it onto PC magazine cover disks eventually.