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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:36:05 GMT, "OldDog" <OldDog@citypound.com>
wrote:
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>"sayNO2steam" <sayNO2steam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:rd1m01d0fc2nke6q21og1probg8dgfdvok@4ax.com...
>> Germany makes Valve change HL2 box
>>
>> this is good news for gamers and the protection of consumer rights
>> Germany was the first to see what us gamers have been warning since
>> the beginning, that HL2 is being sold in a retail box with no PROPER
>> labeling or info about the $team technology that its selling
>>
>
>This is bad news for the publisher of Half Life 2. Although "sayNO2steam",
>who writes an awlful lot like difool, failed to mention that in this case
>the publisher is VU Games. VU Games is not Valve which is the developer of
>HL2. VU Games is the same old standard publisher that we've been dealing
>with for the last several years. This publisher has robbed the developer
>of HL2 (Valve) of royalties, and is now being less than honest with single
>player customers about setting up and playing HL2 single player component.
>
You need not worry. I suspect that VU will get out of any retail
distribution contract with Valve as fast as they can. You have
conveniently forgotten that Valve/VU litigation is still pending on
Valve's use of Steam as an alternate distribution without VU
approval.
In fact, I shall be very interested in seeing exactly who will
retail-distribute future Valve games. If Valve sticks with
on-line sales only, then they will surely die and their IP/key
technical personnel be cheaply bought out (and the company
disbanded) by a big retail distributor such as EA.
John Lewis
>In fact, I'm still waiting for a picture posted on the web by difool that
>compares the VU Games CEO to Stalin, or Pol Pot, or Josef Mengele...
>
>
>> the insignificant reference you can find in the bottom of HL2 back
>> cover to "internet required" is totally insuficient to describe what
>> $team is and does and requires, so this move Germany made is very
>> welcome
>>
>> but also Germany makes reference to shifts in the traditional way
>> of selling games that also have to be addressed, like not being able
>> to sell it in the 2nd hand market or the fee you must pay valve to
>> change cd-key ownership
>> Germany looked at much more than the simple "internet required" but
>> to the brother picture of that $team is trying to do
>>
>> we now hope every country in the world will follow Germany path and
>> much more investigation will be made to valve and $team, cause we
>> won a battle but not the war! we must go on and continue fighting
>> cause it ain't over yet
>>
>
>The publisher of HL2 is VU Games. They're the ones that are being less
>than honest about what's on the HL2 box.
>
>As to the war, it's just a matter of time. One day soon, CD/DVDs will be
>setting next to the abacas, slide rule, 8 inch floppy, and the 8-track in a
>museum.
>
><snip>
>> ps: a big thanks to olddog that first post this great breaking news
>>
>
>No need to thank me. Cause my next pc game is going to be box-free,
>gas-free, save the envirnoment, .... which means I'm looking forward to the
>next Steam released game.
😉
>
>ps Are you difool? The same person that's called me: stupid, Steam
>lover, ignorant, dumb, dumber, dumbest, selfish, uncaring, ....? Cause
>there's no need to thank me for pointing out ground breaking news about
>flaws in the PUBLISHERs game box.
😉
>
>> --
>> test
>
>test complete.
>
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