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VALVE=CROOKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 47
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Valve has the perfect con going. They charge you forty bucks to buy a game that you can't play UNLESS you use steam to verify that you actually bought it but since STEAM may make your computer crash or freeze your system so you can't actually play the game and since you opened the box you can't return it to the the store and get your money back. INTELLECTUAL COPYRIGHT FASCISM has led to this state of affairs where crooks like VALVE can sell you products that don't work and YOU don't have the right to get your money back. Boycott VALVE and don't ever download games (from any company) so that we don't get to a future where STEAM is the only way to play games at all. That is the future these INTELLECTUAL COPYRIGHT HOLDER FASCISTS are drooling over. Don't give it to them.

Steam is buggy and awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 24
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To play this game, you have to logon to Steam, valve's online download system. Its buggy, difficult to configure, and crashes. If you can't get it to work, you don't get to play, which is where I am. I really wish I hadn't bought this game. So far, its money completely wasted. Do not buy this game, unless you enjoy configuring your router, firewall, etc.

Protection scheme makes it unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You MUST have an Internet connection to play. If anybody got hold of your CD key number before you, you will never be able to play the game, and Valve will NOT help you if you bought the game on eBay. I never thought I'd say this, but Valve is worse than Microsoft.

REGISTRATION NIGHTMARE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 23
Date: August 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I spent hours,...hours trying to acivate this game, shutting of software, virus control, firewalls deleting programs, all to no avail. could not activate the game. What a drag, I keep reading that the game is great, but this corporate, headless, inconsiderate, inhuman, non responsive entity wont let me play the game. so the game is probably good if you could activate, but good luck if you buy a used game. Beware if you buy a used game .The first owners have probably pirated the game and you are going to be stuck with a inoperable piece of software. Good luck!

Class action lawsuit warranted

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am seriously thinking about referring this issue to a group of lawyer friends. I am in the technology profession, and I've spent hours trying to get this game to run. And it looks like I am not the only one. Of course, we can't get a refund. How can any company think it's ok when so many folks are unable to use their product, offer little in the way of support, and won't give a refund. Unbelievable...

Steam Scheme Disappoints

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just got around to this game yesterday (I play WoW alot) and the first time through the installation, I chose not to install Counter-Strike but the game failed to install around disk 4. Going on-line and searching for the error which others encountered, I find you have to install Counter-Strike to avoid this glitch. Ok Valve missed one thing, I can forgive that.
Now it has installed this Half-life 2 game and tries updating Steam since the version it installed from the disk must have been older - the updater goes into a loop around 28% and then quits. Every time I try it the same thing happens. I searched on-line and found many people were having this problem with various solutions sporadically working for some and not for others. I tried everything I read and could think of but nothing worked. Several hours wasted after the game itself had already installed. I just couldn't play it without an updated version of Steam. As mentioned before, search for this and you will find many have run into this same problem where Steam does not update correctly. I even uninstalled Steam and tried the Steam installer from Steam's website which also fails between 28% and 33% completed. Steam has something on their website about AOL ACS getting in the way as of January 2007. No solution to that though. When I contacted AOL, they were not aware of the problem so Valve has apparently not tried to resolve a known issue with them to satisfy their customers due to their unnecessary anti-piracy Steam software. Just alienate all AOL users. Anyway the game might be good but I cannot tell because Steam will not update properly so this game is junk to me and deserves the lowest rating I can give it (yea I know yours may work so don't whine to me Steam fanboy cheerleader - this is my experience and my rating and it deserves it).

Perfect.....oh no here comes STEAM...HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: November 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This could be a Terrific game,if there was no STEAM activation WDF..there
are many companies that invest millions in software and they don't get
you through Damn Sh... activation thing.PERIOD.

I'll change my rating if I can ever get it to install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you have a broadband connection, you should have no trouble installing and enjoying this game.

I have dial-up. I really don't even use the internet - I access my email at work using Outlook, which takes ten minutes. So when I buy a game that says "requires internet connection" I think it just means I need that connection to register.

No, you actually need to be connected to Valve to even INSTALL the game. That's nice and high-tech. It also sucks. I've been trying for four hours to install this game. I've been in the forums, I've been on the chat rooms. I really wish I would have read the Amazon site first - the caveats are all here, and they're all very honest.

If I can't get this work, I know I can't get my money back, and no I won't sue Valve. But I will never ever buy another game that needs the Steam platform to run. That's because... well, I can't get it work.

If you're interested, my computer is three months old, has an AMD Athlon X2 5600+ dual core processor, 3 GB RAM, and runs Vista. And no, it's not worth buying a broadband modem and paying $35/month for high-speed internet just to play a $19.99 game, no matter how many awards its won.

The game is good but I wouldn't buy it again...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

...I bought it sometime ago and was annoyed to find I needed an internet connection to install it...while I finally got it back out I went through the "Steam" nonsense but found I still needed to enter the registration code which is on the pamphlet but NOT on the box and NOT on the CD...well, the pamphlet had managed to escape the box and, after spending an hour looking for it, I gave up...so I took a simpler route and went online to a "warez" site and downloaded a steam-free, code installation-free hacked copy which worked fine...I must say the the game is pretty decent -- better than "Quake" but not as good as "Far Cry"...regardless, I'm not paying money for another "steam" game.

Steam still sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Played this when it first came out and decided pay it again-dealing with Steam is preventing me from playing the game just like last time,it took days to get a response.Back in the basement with this game I will never buy a product that has anything to do with Steam

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