orange box

[icyrus]

icyrus ... um ... I start a steam game and it has to connect otherwise I cannot play the game.
Or .. has this changed?

If you want to play online steam needs to authenticate against its central servers, otherwise you can play in offline mode if you're not online.

 

[stoke]

Thanks.

 

[medicnick83]

Worth getting
I got it from Take2.co.za for R317.
Very good deal.

 

[Tan365]

Yeah Steam is rather rubbish... but once all is done u can use offline mode. But damnit the Orange Box is exceptional! Finished Portal and Epi1, abt halfway through Epi2. Still yet to play TF2

 

[AjAx30]

i can only seem to install the "orange box" to one drive... where do i change it to install it to another drive other than "c"?

never mind, found it. here is the link if anyone else wants to do it as well

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=231

 

[Sapphiron]

5 games at R320 on take 2. You cant beat that!!!

R303 on Kalahari

 

[Tarzan]

R303 on Kalahari

Buy before the end of the month and receive a R75 voucher end of November. Add R50 voucher to the R303 to avoid paying for delivery.

 

[Ivan...]

I just got it and I already hate it.

Well I have not had many problems over he years that I have had steam only problems that I could think of was trying to activate games on the release day!

Great, I just started "installing" Orange Box, but now I have to wait for the activation/"purchase", they said they'll let me know. Its like buying ice cream and then not being allowed to eat it, its in front of you, you paid for it, but nooooo, the ice cream guy will let you know when you can eat it.

How long does this take?

 

[Ivan...]

...after waiting an hour just so I can play something, I must say Portal is one of the coolest games I've ever played.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

I got the orange box today, well errrr technically yesterday as it is past midnight and I am already hooked to TeamFortress 2 wow and the activity on the servers is insane!!!

 

[Glordit]

I got the orange box today, well errrr technically yesterday as it is past midnight and I am already hooked to TeamFortress 2 wow and the activity on the servers is insane!!!

Yea, and SGS though only 1 server would be fine there are 3 and sometimes they are all full!

 

[Kosmik]

Maybe this is not the right thread for this but have you guys heard of the orange box region issue?

Basically Valve is enforcing region gaming through thier steam system and this burnt quite a few people who purchased the game in foreign countries.
The most public one being the current Thailand issue, where people purchased legitimate copies and took them home to somewhere other than Thailand and Valve locked the game. Valve's response was to purchase a copy of the game in your region if you want to play. As I understand it, this is a first for pc gaming although has obviously been around for many years with DVD region protection.

Here's a link to the article

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/49656

 

[GougedEye]

Ahh well. thats the last anything I buy from Valve.