HL2 ****up

[WroawMinidisk]

go into your local games store.
Open a empty hl2 box
Use camera phone to take photo of stupidly placed cdkey
Register.

DOH!!!!

(i've not done this my self as its techincly theft [And i bought it before i noticed] but hey someone will :)

[her0n]

man you're so cool

[Switch`]

Hum. Tards....

[WroawMinidisk]

man you're so cool

wow, thats a first

[Joolz]

oooo aren't you 'ard

[Barney]

feel the love :p

[WroawMinidisk]

heh

[Er00]

already had this pointed out to me a few days after it's release :/

[Guigsy]

when i got home my hlcd key was partialy ripped off. had to go back for a new box.
Your right. its a ****ing idiotic place to put one

[Pingman]

Erm, afaik all places that sell the games are putting dummy boxes out with out he actual cd key in?

[Elbonio]

i would think games stores will use dummy boxes


they're not usually that dumb, being in the industry and having done this a few times....

[Mingtea]

game do not use dummy boxes, they put the CD and manual in at time of purchase.

[Jobabob]

lol go GAME, thats a first for them
oh wait a second after WoW
or is that a third

[Elbonio]

yeah but Game ENJOY losing money

[Guigsy]

yeah i baught it from game. empty box on desplay. take to counter. they put cd in.

[SprayCan]

Tesco put the entire box inside a hard-plastic outer-case. Every little helps :P

[Switch`]

Tesco Sells Halflife2:confused:

[WroawMinidisk]

so does asda, key in the box on the self ;p

[Switch`]

its offical there is no god

[Bonkers]

/me strokes online purchasing :) no stealing CDKeys - and got it exactly when it was released! LEET!

[Say_Ten]

You have to have the CD in the drive when registering a HL2 box copy.

[Cheez]

I hate to dissagree with you say_ten, I got my boxed copy and registered the key to my steam account at work without putting the disk in.

[Gifted]

but you still cant play the game wihtout putting the cd in the drive

[Neon]

I bought HL2 Collectors Edition from the USA and my cdkey is printed on the cd insert inside the cd case

[SprayCan]

You dont actually need the dvd to play the game though. I thought you might need to in order to listen to the music that plays at different times in the game, seeing as putting the HL disk into a CD player would give you access to some freaky music.

[Baz]

i can confirm virgin megastores are also this stupid

[no friends]

My local ITgames and GAME and virgin megastore all have dummy boxes.... :P HMV have the game sealed in the plastic with a security tag, if you take it down stairs to the exit, the alarm goes off... so you have to pay upstairs or truely leg it... i got mine off zee internetthough :P

[Bonkers]

Solution ;)
But it will cost you!
http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=70&p_created=1092517154

[Bowser]

My local pc world store has grown wise to this and actuly removed all codes from all game boxes after they clicked on that people were doing this. I don't think my local game has tho.

[Say_Ten]

When I tried to register the copy that was getting posted to me the first thing it did was complain that it wanted the CD in the drive straight after entering the CD key.

[Swyft]

HMV in Stafford, put out their own boxes and threw the proper ones away XD.

Couple of guys I know got back to find boxes with no cd keys :p

Went back to HMV where all the proper boxes where in a skip.

[Optimus]

Gamestation have dummy boxes on the shelf and real ones kept behind the counter still sealed in celophane...