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26th November 2004:
From Half-Life to no play
Steam cleaned as Valve opens up and increases the pressure on those who copy.
Posted by Chris Snook - PC - UK and Europe

The power of Steam was shown yesterday.

Possibly twenty thousand users of the authentication and online gaming service have found that their accounts are dead and that they can no longer play Half-Life 2 or any other game via the system for that matter.

Steam has been one of the most contested elements of the recent release of HL2, mostly as it does not offer the option of not having an internet connection available but its other function, a screen for pirated copies of the games that it is used to decrypt and authenticate has not been seen before.

Valve Software in a statement said "The method used was extremely easy for Valve to trace and confirm, and so there is no question that the accounts disabled were used to try and illegally obtain Half-Life 2". They also denied that they themselves had let slip versions onto sharing networks along with false CD keys in order to catch any unauthorised users.

Chris Snook

Half Life 2
for PC

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