If for some reason u don't have CS:S...

It's on steam for $6.80!

 

I boycott steam and other online-activation-tether companies.

 

Huge steam sale going on! Very cool stuff. Im getting all the defense grid map packs!

 

I use to hate steam with a passion, but now i love it!

 

I don't hate them. It's just that I find their business model despicable and avoid it.

 

What is it exactly that you dont like?

 

It's the same price you would pay as if you were to get it at the store and with the benefit of these great deals all the time.

 

The fact that the games require steam to work. Whenever Valve goes under, so does your games. You paid money for a licence to play, you didn't actually buy your games.

I refused this model when it launched, hence I didn't play Half-Life 2 on the PC.

 

You can go into steam and pull the folders for the games you play out and put them wherever you want.

 

I love CS:S. I used to play it all the time, zombie-mode is addicting with that game and the way the maps work. I love me some custom map too.

actually that is true no matter how you bought your music/movies/games. It doesn't matter if you have a disc in hand or not. That is why it is illegal to give away/sell copies, it isn't actually yours to do so.

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Any of us can stop being a steam user at any time with a simple drag and drop. Likewise, you can move a nonsteam PC game into the folder and typically get the overlay features. That is all the innerfolder is really, the method steam uses to apply the friendslist/browser/community connection while in game (so no alt tab which is awesome in FScreen). That and the fast disc-less download features and stats features of your typical "live" style stat collection network. Patching/updating your games has never been this easy and fast <3

 

Do people still play CS?

 

Quite a few actually.

Also if valve did go under im sure they would still allow you to play your games in offline mode, like you can when the power is out. At least that's how I always thought of it. Not to mention I don't play single player games more than one play through. With and exception of Portal.

 

oo I get paid tomorrow. Time to buy some cheapums.

 

there is a lot of crap for sale today, don't see anything I just have to have so far though

oh scratch that, old school unreal in there, all of them for 13$ lol. Never did try out 3 and I loved 2 back before i lost the disc.

 

You may want to brush-up your knowledge on the first-sale doctrine.

 

Checkmate.

 

Not really any different then what I said. I can buy something and give it away, but not buy it go copy crazy and do the same with the copies. This is one of those things people are pretty familiar with even if they have never heard the term for it before, pretty common knowledge

but the gif redeemed you a lil hehe

 

Can you sell the games you bought on steam ?

 

oh wow, I didn't see all those sales when I posted this.

the THQ pack... OOOOH that's tempting

 

yes, you can sell your steam account if you really really wanted to.

If you want to go in circles until we eventually get to the point that you can't sell one steam game individually without selling the bundle, I can help you out and say that finally you would have a point, though it is far from the one you wanted to start with. And of course based on that logic you would never want to buy a boxed set or bundle of anything, much less buy addons/DLC to games you already own.

Also, nothing is stopping users who know this from simply using multiple steam accounts, negating that concern too, though you loose out on the better features of steam that people end up using it for. I think most of us don't care about the $5 we'd get from old games we might decide to nostalgically play someday, especially since we don't have to keep track of the disc for it.