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I bought this game but I don't really own it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's a product of steam & I am only permited to play when steam decides I can. That means if your internet connection is ever severed or the server is down you cannot play this game, If you ever decided to cancel your internet service this video game goes along with it. Also, don't try to sell this thing or buy it used as steam won't allow any other user to play this .

It's good to know a corporation is allowed to have so much authority and power over a product we buy with our own money.

How could I possibly know?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I loved Half-Life 2. Probably the best game ever.

However, I've now owned Episode One for three days and I can't play it because Steam won't connect. No other program I've ever used has had trouble connecting, but Steam says that it's either me or them, so I should sign on to hints/tips/FAQ whatever.

Did all the tips/hints/FAQ. Nothing. I still don't know if it's them or me, and I don't have time to uninstall, reinstall, reconfigure my router, all to find out it was them.

I might as well have thrown my money out the window. I'm not alone in this, by the way.

You know how some movies just aren't worth going to the theater for, so you wait for the DVD. Well, for this one, I'd suggest that you wait until Valve fixes the Steam system. If enough of us refuse to buy this game, maybe Valve will get things cleaned up for the release of Episode two, or three. Maybe we'll be able to buy the "gold" version of all three and it will actually run.

What the hell?!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this disc expecting to play the game but the only thing on this freakin disc is that idiotic Steam software. You have to install and download the game from the internet. Hey Valve you moron, not everyone has broadband access! What the hell is the point in releasing a game on disc when you have to download it off the freakin internet?!!!!! How about putting the god darn game on the disc and have a choice of upgrading if you want to. This game took 20 hours to install!!!!! I will never ever buy a Steam game again, this includes Sin episodes which has the same problems. To all customers who don't have broadband, do not I repeat do not buy this game unless you like waiting 24 hours to install it.

steam ruins it as always

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

2 hours to activate, then an annoying program running in the background for ever more. Way to ruin another good game. Whoever invented steam needs to shot in the head.

Half Life2; Episode I

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 26
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Cannot provide a review as the game crashes during start up. And they have no fixes todate.

does not play nice

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: September 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Although I have played hl2 this version will not load and play.I have updated drivers and reinstalled the game but nothing.The bad part is that you cannot get help from steam.Steam has ruined a good game once again

Compared...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Compared to most modern fps, half-life 1 looks like ****.
I Strongly reccomend you to buy bf2 or d3:roe for instance, this is the waste of money. No exact storyline, valve is just getting more money for the half-life(r) brand.
I was unsatisfied.

Dissatisified

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game has to be loaded on line. It did not state that internet service was necessary. I opened the box before I noticed the system requirements so I could not return it. I could not get the game to load at all.
I took this game to a friend that has dsl and a computer powerful enough to run it. After all the loading and signing up for the steam software to "really" run your game, it still didn't work properly.
All I wanted was a game I could load on my computer and enjoy. I don't need or want all the online junk that everybody is pushing. If I had known this was online only I would have never wasted my time or money.

Did not work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have a pretty honking PC but this "upgrade" wouldn't even run. Yech.

thinkikng man's game for idiots.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 27
Date: July 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

cum'on people, why pay full retail price for a game that you must pay a monthly fee for to download from steam to play and are required to download new content everytime you go online to connect. That stinx! If you don't see it then why are you in this country? To pay a full price for "A BOX" and then have to download and "prove" you own it(as in liscense) EACH AND EVERYTIME YOU start the game is not only ridiculous but draconian and dictationial of people's privacy. And since it is a SINGLE player game why not let it be played PRIVATELY and leave the MMO B. S. for when you want to socialize and hack noggins. SOme of us also have dial up and refuse to leave it. LYour cred is charged every time the steamers think of a reason)dumb or otherwise) just like the frivolous banks thier searvice charges for "a visit". I don't want to have this compliaction why not just pop in the lousy CD and play it? That's the way it's always been. If you can for Lenard Skynard, then why not Half-life(and it's episodic sqeequals). ALso I am sick of these stuipid computer gaming magazines who constantly review "Steam" all Praise the Steam and that crapola and no other companies are mentioned. Why mess with this headache when you could get Paraiah for half price and just load it and play. Same thing, Doctor and his reluctant girl friend with mordorian hair.

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