Half-Life 2 Steam Offers Ready Thursday

[Power and Glory]

This was just posted on Halflife2.net

This just in from Doug Lombardi:
Half-Life 2 Steam Offers Ready Thursday

Tomorrow at 11 am PST, the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for purchase. Details and pricing for these offers are pasted below. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately. Half-Life 2 and other games in the Steam offerings will be made available to purchasers upon their release.

ATI/Half-Life 2 bundle owners may redeem their product key for the Bronze offer or apply their key toward the purchase of either the Silver or Gold offers, receiving a credit equal to the price of the Bronze offer.

Also tomorrow, the Counter-Strike: Source beta will close. Valve would like to thank the thousands of gamers who participated in the beta and helped make it a success.

For more detailed information, please visit www.steampowered.com


Half-Life 2 Steam Offers

STEAM OFFERINGS

1. "Bronze" -- $49.95
-- Half-Life 2*
-- Counter-Strike: Source
*(To be made available upon product's release.)


2. "Silver" -- $59.95
-- Half-Life 2*
-- Counter-Strike: Source
-- Half-Life 1: Source*
-- Day of Defeat: Source*
-- Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam *(To be made available upon products' release.)


3. "Gold" -- $89.95
-- Half-Life 2*
-- Counter-Strike: Source
-- Half-Life 1: Source*
-- Day of Defeat: Source*
-- Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam
-- Complete Half-Life 2 Strategy Guide from Prima Games
-- 3 different Half-Life 2 posters
-- Half-Life Collector's box
-- Half-Life 2 hat
-- Half-Life 2 postcard
-- Half-Life 2 stickers
-- Half-Life 2 Soundtrack CD
-- Chance to win a trip to Valve! (1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased).
*(To be made available upon products' release.)

[Gwarsbane]

WOW thats really expensive, for just the little bit that you get.

[Power and Glory]

Yeah I was thinking that myself. I see why Silver is $10 more than Bronze. I was thinking Gold should be $20 more than Silver, but not $30 more.

Silver is the best package IMO. Gold is too expensive. I don't need all of that extra crap anyway.

Plus knowing now that you can burn the GCF files according to Valve I will just buy off of Steam. Plus I can avoid tax and shipping that would have incurred ordering the retail package from somewhere.

[Gwarsbane]

http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthr...threadid=150927

Ok, to keep from the massive spammage on Wednesday & Thursday, I'm going to make this thread to clear up the release times for your GMT.


Ok, VALVe's timezone is -8GMT or Pacific Time. They're located in the State Of Washington.




It's 3:26PM, October 6th -8GMT. (At the time of this post...)

CS:S Will not be playable until October 7th 11:00AM (So it says on the news page)
-8GMT Time (That's Pacific Time in the US)


Figure out which GMT Timezone you're in to understand when YOU should be able to play the Retail Version of CS:S.

Use the Search feature instead of spamming.

(Times are estimates)

Here are the timezones w/ the estimate release times:



-12GMT || 7:00AM (Oct 07th)

-11GMT || 8:00AM (Oct 07th)

-10GMT || 9:00AM (Oct 07th)

-9GMT || 10:00AM (Oct 07th)

-8GMT || 11:00AM (Oct 07th)

-7GMT || 12:00PM (Oct 07th)

-6GMT || 1:00PM (Oct 07th)

-5GMT || 2:00PM (Oct 07th)

-4GMT || 3:00PM (Oct 07th)

-3GMT || 4:00PM (Oct 07th)

-2GMT || 5:00PM (Oct 07th)

-12GMT || 6:00PM (Oct 07th)

0GMT || 7:00PM (Oct 07th)

+1GMT || 8:00PM (Oct 07th)

+2GMT || 9:00PM (Oct 07th)

+3GMT || 10:00PM (Oct 07th)

+4GMT || 11:00PM (Oct 07th)

+5GMT || 12:00AM (Oct 08th)

+6GMT || 1:00AM (Oct 08th)

+7GMT || 2:00AM (Oct 08th)

+8GMT || 3:00AM (Oct 08th)

+9GMT || 4:00AM (Oct 08th)

+10GMT || 5:00AM (Oct 08th)

+11GMT || 6:00AM (Oct 08th)

+12GMT || 7:00AM (Oct 08th)



*Remember* The 11AM PST is subject to change. (Though I highly doubt it!)

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Also some currency exchange for the prices of the different Steam Packages:
Order from Bronze to Gold Packages


Curreny: Euro

$49.95 = 41€

$59.95 = 49€

$89.95 = 73€


Curreny: Rounded Australian

$49.95 = $70 AUD

$59.95 = $83 AUD

$89.95 = $125 AUD


Currency: Canadian

$49.95 = 62.9612 CAD

$59.95 = 75.5660 CAD

$89.95 = 113.371 CAD


Currency: UK Pounds

$49.95 = 28.0935 £

$59.95 = 33.7140 £

$89.95 = 50.5851 £


Curreny: Rounded Japanese Yen

$49.95 = 5384.30

$59.95 = 6462.23

$89.95 = 9696.04


Curreny: Rounded Pound sterling

$49.95 = 27.43

$59.95 = 32.92

$89.95 = 49.40

[Gwarsbane]

I think I will wait for the box version to see what the price is then and then wait for it to come down.

Remember all these prices are for steam download. In other words you don't get CDs or boxes and stuff.

So if in the future you decide that you don't want HL2 anymore you're basically out of luck. getting a good price for it.

[Wha?]

They should keep a registry of people who purchase it through Steam, and let them download it as many times as they want (only one set of keys per purchase, though).

At least that way people won't be scared out of buying over Steam. That is, unless they work for a Universal Vivendi subsidiary... :unsure:

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Is there a retail store date yet?

[Gwarsbane]

nope no idea when the store release is and no idea what the prices for those would be either

[Quickening]

They should keep a registry of people who purchase it through Steam, and let them download it as many times as they want (only one set of keys per purchase, though).

At least that way people won't be scared out of buying over Steam. That is, unless they work for a Universal Vivendi subsidiary... :unsure:

Thats what I'm scared of and thats why I'm waiting for retail. Plus then I don't have to let my parents know I'm buying it.

[Power and Glory]

nope no idea when the store release is and no idea what the prices for those would be either

The prices for retail have been out. Of course you have to do the conversion to Canadian. The regular version is is either $50 or $54. I've seen it differant in a couple places. The CE version is $80.

[Power and Glory]

They should keep a registry of people who purchase it through Steam, and let them download it as many times as they want (only one set of keys per purchase, though).

At least that way people won't be scared out of buying over Steam. That is, unless they work for a Universal Vivendi subsidiary... :unsure:

They do keep track of people who order anything through Steam cause it is tied to your Steam account. If say you had to reformat or got another comp all you would have to is log in and Steam would redownload everything.

Though if you have the ability to burn the GCF files do so to save you the pain and time of downloading everything again.

[Gwarsbane]

Never go by anything on store sites, they are usually wrong till the game actually comes out including the price. Just look how badly they have been off on the release date.

[Power and Glory]

Want to make a bet thats how much it will be Gwar? $50 is the norm for most PC games today. High profile games it can be higher like Doom3 which was $54 at most places.

Don't set yourself up for dissapointment and think it will be lower. Maybe they will knock 10 bucks off the CE version but that would be it.

[Wha?]

The demand will be huge right through the holiday season. I wouldn't expect a significant price drop until spring.

[Gwarsbane]

No matter what price it comes out as I won't bug me, I have no plans on buying it anytime soon. Kind of need a video card first:)