Thursday, April 18All That Matters

Remembered that I had the CD for Half-Life and learned you can put the CD key in to unlock it. Was surprised that I also unlocked the add-ons with this version.

by its_bme


Remembered that I had the CD for Half-Life and learned you can put the CD key in to unlock it. Was surprised that I also unlocked the add-ons with this version.



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  • internalized_boner

    FYI, this works for lots of old games. Ive also had luck with old EA games through Origin (EA Play, whatever its called now). Blizzard too through the BNET launcher. Off the top of my head, all the Unreal games will activate on steam with a CD key (and im pretty sure youll get the expansion packs too) and I know there are others but i cant remember, its been a long time since I went through my physical stuff and tried.

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  • Hanako_Seishin

    Makes me remember my first experience with Steam. I bought a disk with HL2 and it said it needs Internet connection to install. Weird for a single player game but okay, I have a connection. It didn’t warn me it won’t allow me to play until it downloads a bunch of patches. And back then you paid per megabyte. My parents were not happy with the bill. I said fuck Steam I’m never dealing with it again.

    Fast-forward to now I have hundreds of games on Steam half of which I never even installed.

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  • LftTching4Corporate

    Yo what! Gonna have to try this when I get back up to my parents one day with some old games I still have sitting around.

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  • theworldsucksbigA

    You must’ve created your steam account today? Within 24 hours of creating mine I already had dozens in my library after a year I had hundreds, them damn sales taking all my pocket change

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  • neomatrixj2

    I remember when steam came out each CD key of my bundle got me a copy of half life so I made like three steam accounts

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  • atemptsnipe

    Any valve game can be entered as a cd key. You may also be able to enter non valve games as long as they are available on Steam you should get the game.

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  • non-number-name

    ***Steam***, at launch, was a buggy add-on that you suddenly needed to play **Valve** games.

    I have issues with Valve, but this was a truly honorable decision.

    Thank you, u/its_bme, for letting us *“physical-media stragglers”* know about this.

    One day, ***Valve*** **will** *three*.

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  • Vividus8

    Yeah old CD keys tend to work as long as the game is available through steam. Sadly this means the ORIGINAL Prey by iD doesn’t work. What’s cool is if you own the original half life valve gives you the entire base package. Just like op found out.

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