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[DonCorleone]

I bought Half Life from ebay last week. And finally it came today via mail.
Don´t know why...maybe it´s dumb...but I registered HalfLife and Counterstrike (which I own, too) by using STEAM. Since the code from HalfLife is still in use (who wonders?) I put the counterstrike-code into the registration form. Well, I hadn´t the games installed, yet. But now STEAM seems to be downloading them. Or what do you think it is doing? I really don´t know why they are still selling cds if you only need the code to get the game via internet.
Of course there are a lot of people that aren´t able to make use of the internet, I know.
But what sense does it make, that Steam installs the games although I own them on cd and probably could install them much faster then STEAM can? :blink:

And in addition: I can play HalfLife although it isn´t installed nor STEAM is ready with downloading...