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Posted by Irenicis on Sun Nov 14th at 12:38pm 2004

what's the back catalog supposed to be?

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sun Nov 14th at 12:41pm 2004

All the games currently available on Steam...

use your eyes, there's a link right next to where it says back catalogue!
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Posted by Andrei on Sun Nov 14th at 1:09pm 2004

Does the BRONZE package contain HL2, CS:S AND the full SDK? [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Sun Nov 14th at 1:18pm 2004

The SDK is an optional steam download, avaiable with any pack. No extra charge has been mentioned so far



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Posted by Irenicis on Sun Nov 14th at 4:37pm 2004

? quoting Kage_Prototype
All the games currently available on Steam...

use your eyes, there's a link right next to where it says back catalogue!

so i can play cs, tfc , CS:CZ ,dod 1.6 with this CD?

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Posted by ReNo on Sun Nov 14th at 5:16pm 2004

Its not a CD, you don't get anything physically. Buying the silver package will give you access to download and play everything available on steam.
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Posted by Jinx on Mon Nov 15th at 7:52am 2004

BIG WARNING:

I hear that if you get the Silver package on your current HL steam ID, since you are getting HL1 etc., which you already have on that ID, your 'old' HL1 CD Key will be overwritten and invalidated. In other words, you won't be able to take your old copy of HL1 and install it on another machine, since you'd have to be logged in twice under the same Steam ID at the same time to use both copies at once, which no workie.

I -think- if you simply buy HL2 under a new Steam ID you will get around this problem (then install and play HL1 under the old ID). To be safe, though, I'm probably just going to uninstall HL1 before I buy HL2. Since I have multiple computers on a LAN, I'd kinda like to have HL1 on two of them for LANing purposes.





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Posted by wil5on on Mon Nov 15th at 8:18am 2004

? quoting fraggard
The SDK is an optional steam download, avaiable with any pack. No extra charge has been mentioned so far

Will it be included on the DVD? Does anyone know?

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Posted by Irenicis on Mon Nov 15th at 8:18am 2004

? quoting Jinx

BIG WARNING:

I hear that if you get the Silver package on your current HL steam ID, since you are getting HL1 etc., which you already have on that ID, your 'old' HL1 CD Key will be overwritten and invalidated. In other words, you won't be able to take your old copy of HL1 and install it on another machine, since you'd have to be logged in twice under the same Steam ID at the same time to use both copies at once, which no workie.

I -think- if you simply buy HL2 under a new Steam ID you will get around this problem (then install and play HL1 under the old ID). To be safe, though, I'm probably just going to uninstall HL1 before I buy HL2. Since I have multiple computers on a LAN, I'd kinda like to have HL1 on two of them for LANing purposes.

will i be able to get 2 steam IDs ? ( one old hl1 and the HL2 )

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Posted by Crono on Mon Nov 15th at 9:41am 2004

What he's saying is, since HL2 gives you access to all the back games, create a new steam account with the HL2 key or whatever and use the old account on another machine.

This means, at the very least, you can play HL 1 and all it's mods on more then one computer through steam. That's all. [addsig]



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Posted by Irenicis on Mon Nov 15th at 9:54am 2004

you probably don't understand my question.
Question -----> will there be a second Steam ID for us, if we buy the HL2? [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Mon Nov 15th at 11:05am 2004

I imagine that there could be a cheap version of HL2 that is DM-only some time in the future, for all those offices/houses throughout the land with a LAN and who aren't willing to pay for a 2nd full copy of the game.





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Posted by Irenicis on Mon Nov 15th at 11:13am 2004

er...thanks leperous for posting at this thread...
but i really want to have my question answer so that i can make a choice. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Mon Nov 15th at 11:20am 2004

? quoting Steam website
PLUS: Valve's back catalog (listed here) available on Steam!

? quoting Steam website,again
Valve's back catalog includes:

  • Half-Life
  • Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
  • Day of Defeat
  • Team Fortress Classic
  • Deathmatch Classic
  • Opposing Force
  • Ricochet





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Posted by Irenicis on Mon Nov 15th at 11:21am 2004

? quoting Irenicis
you probably don't understand my question.
Question -----> will there be a second Steam ID for us, if we buy the HL2?

sry for the misunderstanding...maybe you missed out this post as well

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Posted by Irenicis on Mon Nov 15th at 2:26pm 2004

because i need 2 Steam ids , to be frank , one for myself , one for my brother. [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Mon Nov 15th at 2:30pm 2004

You can always get more steam usernamess if you buy more VALVe games. Just register again with another steam username with the new CDKey you got. You'll just have to login and logout to switch between them.





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Posted by Irenicis on Mon Nov 15th at 2:44pm 2004

ok....does HL2 comes with a CD-Key? [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Mon Nov 15th at 7:51pm 2004

? quoting Irenicis
ok....does HL2 comes with a CD-Key?


If you buy it at the store, yes.

Irenicis, no one is missing your point.

Buying HL2 under another steam ID is NOT required, However, if you do create another account for HL2 then you'll have two valid steam accounts for all of Valve's back games (minus, mabey, condition zero on the old account)

If you plan on buying HL2 over steam, create a new steam user, log onto steam and order whatever HL2 package you want. Wa-la, two accounts that have access to the back Valve catalog.

This isn't too hard to grasp ... [addsig]



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Posted by Dred_furst on Mon Nov 15th at 7:58pm 2004

meh, too late for me who bought gold, and it didnt invalidate my old cd key, as that is still the one related to my SteamID, which is still used on servers, and on a server with admin which i still have admin on.
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