Helkite wrote..You should buy a retail copy of the game for a low price, just for the cd key. Then either have a friend backup all his/her steam cache files and burn them on dvds so that you can install all the game w/the latest updates. Alternatively, you can activate your product via steam, find an institution, like a an university of internet cafe, and download the cache files yourself. I used the latter method to get hl2 on my computer w/56k.
Pretty nice. I actually don't still have a copy of HL2+CS:S, but I've always wondered, does the new content and bug fixes get added to the later pressings of the boxed versions?
I have a 56k connection, and even if I don't decide to play online, it's a huge pain to have to download huge bunches of data to get my version of the game up-to-date.
Every couple of weeks you would get an update. I just leave my computer on for half and hour to 2 hours (usually the updates are small) and the updates will be done.
You should definitely get hl2,css. Its a good investment. Once some of those good mods come out, you won't even have time thinking about playing online. who knows you might drop that 56k in the near future and upgrade to broadband.
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