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Originally posted by remember_987
I got Half-life 2 for Christmas and was wondering why I am required to download the game through steam because I am on dial-up and this will take approximately 6 days, what is the purpose in buying the disk if all i am getting is a nice shit account on steam?
One of the things are that you can download the game later if you want too, and that some games require Steam to be installed. However why you have to download the whole game, is a bit stupid, so that I'd also like to know.
Maybe you can download it at a friends house, and he/she may burn it on a CD/DVD for you.