heh, yeah, i was gonna wait a bit before i bought this game, and when i read this afternoon that the hl2 auth servers were borked, i sorta laughed to myself.
kinda like the WoW open beta / stress test just now, where they forgot to put in code to limit the number of people on their servers... the database just couldn't handle it, and frequently got overloaded (30sec - 4 minute lag spike on item pickup). They have pretty much corrected the issue since the test started.
Yeh, Steam wasn't an exactly good choice for Half Life 2 since it is a single player game. No single player game should require internet authentication, what for? Someone is gonna crack it anyway.
Yesterday I bought it, was praying that the Valve servers would work and I could play HL2, luckily they did, and I enjoyed HL2. I feel sorry for those who tried to play it when Valve servers were down, if that happened to me I'd probably start destroying things in my house!
I will probably get a crack once one comes out anyway, what if someday I won't have an internet connection and I'll want to play HL2, I don't want to be in a situation like that.
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When it finally works you will realise its all worth the wait.
but yeah, sorry man, i feel your pain
Yesterday I bought it, was praying that the Valve servers would work and I could play HL2, luckily they did, and I enjoyed HL2. I feel sorry for those who tried to play it when Valve servers were down, if that happened to me I'd probably start destroying things in my house!
I will probably get a crack once one comes out anyway, what if someday I won't have an internet connection and I'll want to play HL2, I don't want to be in a situation like that.