HL2 Pre-loading

Posted by NoToRiOuS at 11:00 27/8/2004.

Jess Cliffe from Valve sends word that Half-Life 2 pre-loading has begun. There is no purchase required for HL2 to pre-load its encrypted files. However you will need to purchase the game to activate it. Those of you that are planning to play HL2 on the day it's released then start pre-loading.

To do this click the "play games" button and right click "Half-Life 2", then select "Start pre-loading".

*Update* Just on a little side note, the compressed files you will be downloading at this stage is around 500mb. So it might be best to do it while you sleep.

Comments

	oldlady 11:22 27/8/2004	I'm not going to preload going to wait for it to hit the shops [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Huckan Boys From The Dwarf 11:34 27/8/2004	Might as well preload, there will be 10 patches before it hits the shop :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wood 11:39 27/8/2004	I take it, CS:S won't be coming put at the same time. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Satchm00 11:50 27/8/2004	<3 i21 and its 7mb a sec lucky meh :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Necroboy fightclubclan 11:53 27/8/2004	Ill do you when you sleep [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Slider` eSports.Edge 12:00 27/8/2004	yup, they are encrypted for now but how long do you think it will take people to crack the most anticipated game for years? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Boomer team-X 12:03 27/8/2004	oldlady it will be cheaper to purchase it through steam . [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dr 12:05 27/8/2004	hmm did people manage to crack cs source b4 its release? i doubt valve would be so careless over sumthing which has already encountered so many problems. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	silence` Last Chance 12:16 27/8/2004	i dont like all this preloading s***. are we going to be able to buy it off the shelf in the shops? along with CS:S? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Endo Legend 12:17 27/8/2004	well yes they will be encrypted, like CS:CZ gcf's were. But i doubt the files are anything important, its probably just texture files and images, etc. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	oldlady 12:44 27/8/2004	I "imagine" it will be same price on play.com as it is on steam. If I format I'll have to download it again. Makes sense to me just to have it on a couple of cd's or on dvd's [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Wood 12:55 27/8/2004	oldlady makes a good point about having the cd's but with cs:s you'll have a million updates if u install it anyway :/ Personally i prefer to have the game on cd as if feel this is the only sure fire way of me not losing me but BUT im so impatient ill probably just preload it so i can play it asap then my pc will crash ill lose all my details and will have to rebuy the game. roffle. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w1cked Croydon 15:31 27/8/2004	roffle my snoffle @ that tbqfh ;-E~ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	xeneX^ Rage 15:44 27/8/2004	I am pretty certain that buying HL2 through steam wll be more expensive than getting it from play.com. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	dr 15:47 27/8/2004	i am pretty certain you are wrong :] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MaCcA^ 16:07 27/8/2004	haha if halflife 2 is only this big its a joke, im guessing you will have to download some more files when you buy a CD key [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	uhh 16:32 27/8/2004	nice one. its not the complete preload [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jazzy Jebus Rage 16:49 27/8/2004	im not pre-loading a game when i dont know if its worth the money of buying, im waiting for it to hit the shelf and see wat its like before i get it. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Undone^ ForsakeN 17:54 27/8/2004	how will you do that dude? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	fsk twisted Reality 18:30 27/8/2004	DONT u KNOw?!? neither do I! :< [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ntNN 18:43 27/8/2004	you guys order from the web to, haha, just go out and buy one from a shop, its a hell of alot quicker you know, by the the way the sun doesn't bite [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	sMokin 21:54 27/8/2004	yeah but the grannys on irn-bru do [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	meloncoly 02:09 28/8/2004	MaCcA^ you big noob these are compressed files, so when they're decrypted they'll be much bigger, + of course we'll need extra files. cs source rar'd is about 200mb and 450mb unrar'd you ultra noob, ffs so many noobs in the world [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Fanto meatyballs 11:21 28/8/2004	melancholy* [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	w000kie 19:47 28/8/2004	glover sucks [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Byatt 22:16 28/8/2004	yeah, let's go buy it in a shop, because it's quicker an costs £10 more than online. Buy online, not from valve though - look at the incongruence between the CZ prices from valve and play. Someone somewhere will be selling it online for £20 delivered. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	newds meatyballs 22:52 28/8/2004	LOL Phil. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Haydn 23:31 28/8/2004	how much will it cost on steam ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hollywood 01:07 29/8/2004	cz actually costs about the same on steam as it does on amazon now, well it did a week or so again. when it first come out though buying thru steam was wayyy more expensive [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	eXcite 04:09 29/8/2004	went in a flash here at i21 :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	wiL Die2Win! 11:15 29/8/2004	only cos people didnt wana TUP with team-uk and clutch imo...HACKSERRSS [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ShekkyBoy 12:05 29/8/2004	The prices will probably be around the same for buying on Steam or in stores. If I remember correctly, Steam allowed you to preorder Condition Zero before its release, and it had £10 off the standard shop price. But you also have to take into account that should you buy on Steam, you don't get the manual/box etc. Whether you like the feel of a cardboard box, jewel case and 20 page manual is up to you. I'm just wary of the future possibility of a massive Steam database crash, which could result in details of player's accounts being lost, including what games they had purchased under Steam. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ripper Rush! 13:13 29/8/2004	i'm pretty sure they back up the system every so often [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Hollywood 15:34 29/8/2004	cardboard boxes? pfft i aint got any games in cardboard boxes in a long time, unless u count that flimsy thing that covered the doom3 dvd case [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	alkor 15:35 29/8/2004	bling bling ? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	DK Stalk Confront Engage Eliminate 12:59 30/8/2004	haha Phil :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	KILL!an 03:14 31/8/2004	i'll think i'll just buy it :\| [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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