STEAM Beta Ends Tuesday / More On HL2 'Pay To Play'

Posted by Dev at 00:04 6/9/2003.

Doug Lombardi has sent out this little press release for you all to read:
The Steam Beta has delivered several Valve games and popular Half-Life MODs to over 300,000 gamers, and will come to a close Tuesday evening (Pacific Daylight Time). The first full version of Steam, Valve's broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content, will launch at 11 am PDT on Wednesday. Set up installers for the full version, which will be free of charge to existing Half-Life and Counter-Strike players, will be available from www.steampowered.com and leading game sites. Anyone interested in hosting the installer or becoming a Steam Service Provider, please email biz@steampowered.com.
Valve would like to extend its thanks to everyone who participated in this beta.
All it means is that you need a working CD-Key to continue to use STEAM when the beta ends. For more information check out this forum thread.
You may remember this little post about the Half-Life 2 purchasing options. Well it seems that Gabe Newell has been busy releasing more information about the various SKU's. So if you're still confused point your cursor here and get unconfused.

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	shads theb0g 00:09 6/9/2003	fun fun funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn in the sun sun sunnnnnnn [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	BelleH Rush! 00:11 6/9/2003	cba reading all that after driving 435miles in one day [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Ross 00:14 6/9/2003	His argument is that: "The theory is that it helps out retailers like Walmart who have very broad reach into customer bases that don't care about multiplayer and who are very price conscious. Rather than having to wait a year for the product price to come down, there's a special version for them on day one." I imagine that's just spiel for "we are releasing two versions, one which is the normal price you pay for games now and which has singleplayer only, around £35, the other an inflated price which includes all the mods, around £blah". The lack of depth he uses in his explanation would lead a lot of people to believe there will be a CHEAPER THAN NORMAL version, and a normally priced version (around what you pay for all games now) which includes all of the mods and s***. Just as we're seeing prices of music CD's finally going down, we'll be seeing prices of games CD's/DVD's going up. Exciting times! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	shads theb0g 00:15 6/9/2003	how the hell does the whole steamid thing work with banning etc from servers ? will all bans on servers still be inplace after wonid is scrapped n taken to "steamid" automatically or will everthing get reset apart from players convicted already thru VAC (surely) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Tazzle 00:27 6/9/2003	It's all reset yo. Straight from the horses mouth, ie. Erik Johnson. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Tazzle 00:30 6/9/2003	Also reading between the lines in Erik's statement one would set the 1st of October as the release date of CS 1.6 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Huckan Boys From The Dwarf 00:45 6/9/2003	so whats the deal with paying for mods? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dangki 00:46 6/9/2003	We'll probably not see the budget priced HL2 over here anyway. That guy sounded like a complete c***. Gabe Newel must be the most tolerant person ever to reply politely to that e-mail. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Samje 07:28 6/9/2003	what happens if _not_ on broadband? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Jolleh Team56 08:53 6/9/2003	ur _f***ed_ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Abdo 12:32 6/9/2003	For mods you can pay either the $9.99 a month and get them "for free". Or you can buy the ones you want individually for separate prices. I'd say it's a given that this'll only apply to the official Valve mods, you'll still be able to get the unpublished ones from anywhere you like. And don't say "what now my cs is not free for me?"; the only reason it was free in the first place is because it wasn't signed to anyone. As for the whole pricing system, they're basically giving you much more choice of how you want to buy the game, yet people still find a way to complain. Christ. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	messeh deliverance 12:39 6/9/2003	the end of cs as we know it once 1.6 is released. thats why ive stopped early >.< [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Slider` eSports.Edge 13:19 6/9/2003	anyone remember alvin? wonder where he is nowadays. used to be most entertained by his posts. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	N38 15:39 6/9/2003	LOL si UL ! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Smittins 20:45 6/9/2003	That guy sounded like a complete c*. Gabe Newel must be the most tolerant person ever to reply politely to that e-mail. Wow he expressed his opinion, and it differs from yours, what a ck! I happen to agree with him. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	[i:Venom] BLACKLiGHT 23:17 6/9/2003	so many uk players on 56k and isdn, going to ruin it completely for them, good job im goin broadband next week or id be sooo p***ed off :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	shads theb0g 21:39 7/9/2003	ye will ruin cs for 56k/isdners but make it so much better for the rest of us without their BS :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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