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Old November 23rd, 2004, 07:46 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Valve cans 20,000 Steam accounts

Some stuff I found on AAT:

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23415
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Old November 23rd, 2004, 07:59 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Theres a cracked, non steam, non serial version of hl2 out now.
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Old November 23rd, 2004, 08:02 PM     #3 (permalink)
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Well that's a little extreme, especially for those who are prevented from accessing older games that they already own, Counter-Strike et al.

I know that they have to do something to counter these cheats, but I'm a little concerned that it is still locking out legitimate owners of previously released Valve titles.
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Old November 24th, 2004, 09:15 AM     #4 (permalink)
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i know several people here have complained about having thier accounts banned, i wonder how many were cracked verisons
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Old November 24th, 2004, 09:21 AM     #5 (permalink)
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I don't understand, why do you have steam account if you have the pirated version?

Is it like people have bought like counter strike, and got steam account that way, and now those people are trying to activate their pirated half life2?

I must be stupid
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Old November 24th, 2004, 09:23 AM     #6 (permalink)
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i got my account disabled for no reason... =\ and so far support is going absolutely nothing to help... i payed $73.14 for HL2 silver...
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well to play half life2 you have to log into steam and activate it

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/0826238
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Old November 24th, 2004, 09:25 AM     #8 (permalink)
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http://www.steampowered.com/forums/s...5&pagenumber=1

thread on the Steam Forums about dozens of ppl getting accounts disabled for no reason.
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Old November 24th, 2004, 11:31 AM     #9 (permalink)
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"I don't understand, why do you have steam account if you have the pirated version?"

So you could play cs online
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Old November 24th, 2004, 04:26 PM     #10 (permalink)
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"I don't understand, why do you have steam account if you have the pirated version?"

So you could play cs online

geezus christ... dont u understand that these ppl along with me BOUGHT HL2? I bought the Silver pack for $59.95+tax = $73.14 jsut to get my account disabled 2 days later...
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