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Every time you start Half-Life 2, it appears to verify its game file by talking to the Steam server.

This takes roughly as long, on my fast PC with ADSL, as it took Snapper to load from cassette on the BBC Micro. I don't know (how could I tell?) whether it's negotiating frantically across the Net as I sit, redrafting this post twice, watching the yellow squares move across the drab-grey progress bar.

And, even with this grotesque verification effort, it wants the DVD in the drive to play. One could rapidly get to resent being obliged to put ones computer to this effort to prove oneself not a thief.

Date: 2004-11-23 10:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vyvyan.livejournal.com
Snapper! I used to play that so much. In my best game I got to the second grape level, IIRC :-)

And what...

Date: 2004-11-23 11:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] seawasp
... if you're not online and just want to (pardon the phrase) play with yourself? Will it refuse to play without the opportunity to verify online?

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