Half Life 2 is Free on Steam
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Funny story about Half Life 2. When it first came out my friend drove to the store to buy it and I started downloading the pirate copy on Kazaa at the same time. Because of the technical issues when steam was first released I was playing the game before he was.
Valve knew what they were doing. They wanted to live off of rent, not make games. Half-Life 2 was the killer app to bring people into the Steam ecosystem.
Forcing people to use steam to play CS and other games did that just as much.