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[quote][quote]I think I bought Bronze. I don't really remember but 70 seems too high for what I paid. But I do have Half-Life Source so I guess it worked out for me.

Maybe you bought that when it was $0.50 or whatever.

98 cents because it came out in 1998, that was to celebrate 10 years of half-life :)

No it was 97cents cause it came out in 1997!

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[quote][quote][quote]I think I bought Bronze. I don't really remember but 70 seems too high for what I paid. But I do have Half-Life Source so I guess it worked out for me.

Maybe you bought that when it was $0.50 or whatever.

98 cents because it came out in 1998, that was to celebrate 10 years of half-life :)

No it was 97cents cause it came out in 1997!

whoops, my bad, it's really been that long?

whoops, my bad, it's really been that long?

Naw, you were right. He was just taking things off topic with his Half-Life discussion. Some people have no respect for the sanctity of threads.

http://kotaku.com/5409642/valve-bans-gray+market-modern-warfare-2-keys

That's pretty horrible. If you have a legitimate key there should be nothing that they can do to you. It doesn't matter how you acquired it.

That's pretty horrible. If you have a legitimate key there should be nothing that they can do to you. It doesn't matter how you acquired it.

Define legitimate. :P

That's pretty horrible. If you have a legitimate key there should be nothing that they can do to you. It doesn't matter how you acquired it.

Define legitimate. :P

A key that was generated for use by Activision. Apparantly they are buying bulks of keys legally sold on the cheap in asia and then reselling them for half the price of the game overseas. (Someone that makes less than a US dollar a day is obviously not going to be buying MW2 for the $60 that it costs stateside)

That's despicable. Those cocksuckers should be shot. Well... tortured.

Anyone who bought a "discount" download key for a brand new game from a shady looking site that is clearly not affiliated with the developer or any authorized distributors and got screwed does not have my sympathy.

And although I'm rather pissed off about the MWF2 situation, regional pricing is Activision's right, and I see no reason they should be obliged to honor keys that were sold in a manner that bypassed this right.

regional pricing is Activision's right, and I see no reason they should be obliged to honor keys that were sold in a manner that bypassed this right.

and I see no reason to screw the user because he's caught in the crossfire

that's not good consumer practice in my book but I guess they don't care with the volumes sold ...

Anyone who bought a "discount" download key for a brand new game from a shady looking site that is clearly not affiliated with the developer or any authorized distributors and got screwed does not have my sympathy.

define "shady looking site clearly not affiliated"
In this article nothing says the originating websites were shady or unaffiliated, on the contrary they were described as "import resellers" which means legal keys, rightfully bought from activision.

In the end, from my point of view they could do what microsoft is doing : legalize their purchase with an additional charge . and one should note that microsoft is doing that for 100% pirate copies, whereas activision is doing that to 100% legal keys which were just not sold at the "right" price.

Basically I just don't like how it really shows a move towards the games as a service thing. They can now control WHERE you can play a game. (Consoles have region protection, but that just requires you to own a console of the same region. PC's have never been affected by this until now...)