I bought half life 2 back on the 19th or Friday I believe; began installing it which took a very long time and then creating a steam account after steam took about a year on my 56k connection to update and then it also had to decrypt itself in order for me to play. So during the installation of the game I really started thinking; I won and liked half life a lot; even went out a couple years later and bought the platinum edition to play some of the expansions like blue shift. SInce I'm on...