Preload CS:Source early!

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yea, to recieve the free copy of HL2 you had to do the thing on the website, the it asks you to, print it out, send off the voucher, the bit on your G Card box with serial number n stuff of the card.

Oh right. You're going to get a boxed copy of the game, but you aren't going to get CSS or a subscription to the Premier Pack like the people who decided to enter the key into Steam instead.

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CSS will ship with HL2, but not be the multiplayer. It will also be avaliable seperately.

nah thats giving in to valve, there ######... make us wait for ages then force people to buy cz to get css just because it was a flop
Or, from an optimistic view, they limited the beta (it's only a beta! :)) to the 1/8th size and arguably more mature CZ community. IMO, they should have limited it further to those who bought CZ before the beta announcement.
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Guys it doesnt matter if you download it....only cyber cafes can play because the only accounts that have access are cyber accounts with new cd keys pre registered at valves end.

so you have to have a cyber cafe login for steam....lucky for me I run a cyber cafe, I got 10 login's in the post yesterday! :)

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It would of been nice if they had pre-loaded to Ati bundle Customers, I,ll guess that altho it helped ship a few cards its also not nearly as huge a group as will be hitting the servers once the dload is public.

But heck I,ll wait im stil playing Doom III on veteran, so for now i,ll wait and on the 18th i,ll smile knowing that my 9600xt 256mb is not only powering my sys but has given me hl2 / cs:s :D

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My HL2 is preordered since August 4th, 2003. Do you think they'd even consider inviting these preorders?

Not if it's preordered by a group unasociated with Valve. To be fair they'd have to include everyone, and that would be impossible with the sheer number of different stores people preordered from.

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