Half-Life 2

[Zmid]

...Another Steam account and another credit card, actually.

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Erm, no. You don't need to supply any credit card details to set up a Steam account. I don't even own a credit card, yet I have a Steam account. You only need to supply credit card details to buy games over Steam, which kinda defeats the purpose of pirating the game.

 

Besides that, it's not the fact that they banned 20 000 people that matters, but the fact that they've eliminated a method of piracy that's 20 000 users strong.

 

Nope. All they've really done is caught 20,000 people who were committing piracy. The method they used is still available, it's just it's been demonstrated that you're running the risk of being banned from Steam by using it.

[Marxist ßastard]

Wolfie, you need to realize that, of those 20 000 people:

1. All had used the exact same key, which is now completely invalid.
   
2. Some had used the same Steam account to purchase or play Valve games, and thus have their account banned, their payment information blacklisted, and their licenses nullified.
   
3. Quite a few will think twice before pulling that same stunt again.
   

...Oh, and if I were you, I would stop starting all of your statements with the word "no" or "nope;" it makes you sound like an ass.

[valdir]

Oh, and if I were you, I would stop starting all of your statements with the word "no" or "nope;" it makes you sound like an ass.

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MB, you are a little gem, aren't you...

 

:lol:

[Dark0ne]

...Oh, and if I were you, I would stop starting all of your statements with the word "no" or "nope;" it makes you sound like an ass.

 

Don't take that as an insult, Wolf..he thinks anyone who disagrees with him is an ass ;)

[Slaiv]

So wait - let me get this straight. A few of my friends have told me that you can play HL2 on multiple computers using one steam account; simply share the account with two or three other people, and they can simply DL the files.

 

It doesn't seem as if Valve would do something as stupid as this in the midst of their anti-piracy war. Is there any truth behind these claims?

 

*Goes off to cry due to not having played either Halo 2 or Half-Life 2 yet.*

[Zmid]

Wolfie, you need to realize that, of those 20 000 people:

[*]All had used the exact same key, which is now completely invalid.

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Nope. ( :lol: ) The way it is set up, each key can only be registered to one account. If you try to register it to a second, it tells you that the key is already registered.

 

Some had used the same Steam account to purchase or play Valve games, and thus have their account banned, their payment information blacklisted, and their licenses nullified.

 

Those were the stupid ones. The ones who had an ounce of sense set up a Steam account purely for the pirated Half-Life 2. Even if they didn't, all they have to do to get a new Steam account is get a new e-mail address. It just means that, if they were one of the stupid ones, they can't pay for games over Steam using the same payment method.

 

Quite a few will think twice before pulling that same stunt again.

 

Maybe. Probably not, though.

 

...Oh, and if I were you, I would stop starting all of your statements with the word "no" or "nope;" it makes you sound like an ass.

Don't take that as an insult, Wolf..he thinks anyone who disagrees with him is an ass

 

Heh. I don't take it as an insult at all. I KNOW I'm an ass. :P

 

So wait - let me get this straight. A few of my friends have told me that you can play HL2 on multiple computers using one steam account; simply share the account with two or three other people, and they can simply DL the files.

 

It doesn't seem as if Valve would do something as stupid as this in the midst of their anti-piracy war. Is there any truth behind these claims?

 

The Steam version, yes. All you need to do is install Steam on the various PCs, log the account on one PC at a time and download the files, then set up Steam so it can enter it's 'offline' mode, and just make sure the PC isn't connected to the net when Half-Life 2 or any other Steam game's running.

 

EDIT: Just thought I should add, with the retail version, the disc needs to be in the drive when you're playing, so, with that, you can only play Half-Life 2 on one machine at a time. Although there are ways around this, you risk getting your legitimate copy of Half-Life 2 banned if Valve catch you using them.

[Marxist ßastard]

Wolfie, have you even made an attempt to RTFA? They were all using the same key, and more than you would imagine used that same account to purchase or play games.

[Zmid]

Wolfie, have you even made an attempt to RTFA?  They were all using the same key, and more than you would imagine used that same account to purchase or play games.

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Hmm, when I look around the net, the same key is quoted over and over. Yet, when I tested this by setting up a second account and trying to register my legitimate CD Key to this second one, it told me the key had already been used.

 

:huh: