Right at this very moment, I am in the process of installing Half Life 2. Yes I bought the legit game. I always buy legit games.
But it’s a damn pain to install. FIVE, count them, FIVE full CDs to install, and mine’s the retail standard version! After that, I gotta reg an account on Steam, minor inconvenient but ok. Did that. Then the screen says to insert CD 1 into the drive, so I did. Then Steam went ahead and regged the CD Key with Steam.
Fine and dandy.
THEN the next screen comes up – “Unlocking Half Life 2 game files” and the damn progress bar is moving SO SLOWLY. I’m on broadband dammit! I loaded up some network utilities and see the following stats:
Average speed is 22K/sec
Amount of data received thus far is 5MB
It’s been over an hour and approaching TWO hours since I inserted CD 1 into the drive to initiate the install.
This “anti-piracy” measure sucks big time.
