I bought a copy of the WON version of Half-Life on ebay a few days ago. Today I got it in the mail, and installed it the regular way. That worked fine, but I also tried entering the key on Steam, and it identified it as a platinum collection. WTF??? I'm not angry, I think this is awesome, but why? Was it some deal that Valve had for people who already owned the old version?
edit: BAD READING -9000 INTERNETS
tl;dr version: bought old half-life disc on ebay, put code into steam, got the half-life platinum pack; $8 for something that's at least twice as much on the steam store.
[QUOTE=zmr;22881498][B]I bought a copy of the WON version[/B] of Half-Life on ebay a few days ago. Today I got it in the mail, and installed it the regular way. That worked fine, but I also tried entering the key on Steam, and it identified it as a platinum collection. WTF??? I'm not angry, I think this is awesome, but why? Was it some deal that Valve had for people who already owned the old version?[/QUOTE]
Is that your problem solved?
[QUOTE=ZapDing;22881574]Is that your problem solved?[/QUOTE]
Wut? It was an old copy (with the disc and everything) from 1999. The key was the same.
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All old Half-Life retail boxes will give you the platinum collection.
(on WON, all mods were free)
[quote=wikipedia]world opponent network or won was an online gaming service, created by sierra games as the sierra internet gaming system (sigs). Won was used by games such as homeworld, half-life, star trek: Armada, soldier of fortune, dark reign 2, silencer, arc and online versions of casino games as well as early entries in the hoyle games series.
Sierra was purchased by havas in january 1999 and cendant software became havas interactive, which came to control won. In march 2000, havas interactive merged won.net with prize central net to form flipside.com. Regardless, games such as valve software's half-life continued to use the service.
In 2001, valve acquired won from flipside.com and began to implement the steam system in beta form. Over the next few years, as steam was developed and tested, won continued to serve.
Valve shut down the last of its won servers on july 31, 2004, officially killing the remnants of won. [b]all online portions of valve's games were transferred to their own steam system.[/b] the announcement disappointed some of the long-time half-life and counter-strike players who held it in high esteem for being, at the time, more efficient in terms of speed and system resources than steam.
After the shutdown of won, some players continued to run a patched version of the retail versions of half-life or counter-strike, which connects to a won replacement called no-won (or won2), and allows users to use the original server browser to connect to half-life servers, and their various mods (including counter-strike 1.5, and a steamless version of 1.6), much as they could before won's shutdown.[/quote]
hurr durr durr
i'm an idiot
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