6 days...

[evildm]

Is this somekinda lame copy-protection thingy? Shhs! Why bother?
Some geek's gonna crack it in a week, anyway.

It was cracked on the day of release, actually. (don't worry, I bought the game and love it)

Steam bothers me as well. There's no guarantee that Steam will be around in, say, 5 or 10 years. What if I want to play HL2 down the road for nostalgia's sake, but can't because it can't unlock itself?

I haven't really seen any online services last for a long time, except maybe Battle.net or Kali. Ten's gone, Heat's gone. I know these are just matching services, but they're services nonetheless that require servers to be up 24/7.

I guess time will tell, really.

 

[bondetamp]

What about borrowing the game? Or installing it on more than one machine?

Will there be problems?

No. Just install Steam and log on as yourself. It will download and install the games you own for you.

I rather like that there is no possibility of me losing my cd this way.