#Quake 4 steam asking for cd key for free#
#Quake 4 steam asking for cd key install#

Of course valve make money from it, they make money from selling CS retail edition and more importantly they just released the DoD retail game, why would they then give away HL for free allowing for people to download the free DoD? Its not good business sense and considering the game is 5 years old id try and milk all i could from it before the 'next generation' of multiplayer gaming arrives.Īlso, why would valve want people to get hooked to an old game that they get no profit from?! HL will still sell after HL2 comes out as many people wont have a PC capable of playing hl2 and so the low system requirements of hl and the large community will keep sales constant. I'm sure 99% of the people playing Half-Life for free now that don't own the game wouldn't buy it once HL 2 is out. It gets people hooked, and then keeps them there.

Valve makes no money off of online-multiplayer, so why not just build more hype around Steam/Half-Life in general by giving it away free so more people like Steam/Half-Life before HL2 is realeased, which will sell for ~$50 a pop and require valid CD-keys.

#Quake 4 steam asking for cd key install#

Are all EA games like that? I also have Crysis & Crysis II, but never tried multiplayer.ģ) Hopefully something I can install from the same media, and not require me to signup 4 different Steam / Origin accounts, etc.Because everyone already owns Half-Life? And even if they do sell a copy it goes for ~$5 these days. If not first person shooter, maybe a dogfight or strategy game?Ģ) Local server, if possible? I have two copies of BF3, but we have to connect online. B) If you had already link game, it just launch game that it. A) If this is 1st time ever launching the game on your Steam account, it will ask if want to link to your Ubisoft connect account, once linked, it launch game. Is there a way to turn off the language, btw? I think the kids range from about 10yrs up to college age. Open Steam client > Download your AC unity game > launch the game. Though, I do know what some of my nephews play, I think they have BF3 for the console I don't want the in-laws frowning either, so I want to keep it as clean as possible. problem in a finite number of steps that often involves repetition of an operation, or doing something over and over ana over until you get it right GOOD. All I've played lately is Crysis II and BF3.ġ) Good mature family friendly game - Doesn't have to be rated G / Care Bears, but no Zombie games. Last game I played multiplayer was Quake 3 Arena. On Debian 9 Ive run a command: game-data-packager -binary-executables quake4 Then install deb-packages and some libriaries. Looking for multiplayer games that we can ideally run a local server with. So since I'm pretty much clueless about multiplayer gaming these days, I need some recommendations from the experts. Have 2 rigs with 30' and will have two with 24' 1920x1200. 3) type the following commands, pushing enter after each. 2) Open up the console by pushing ctrl + alt + tilde. I have 4 desks and 3 good rigs (see my sig), and I'm putting together a 4th box as we speak that should be game capable. To fix the textures do the following: 1) Set the in game settings through the menus as your normally would. I want to setup a little fun this year for once. If theres an actual source port, it should be easy enough to remove the cd key garbage. I have some family coming in for Christmas, and usually my nephews like to invade my home office and look at my hardware and tell me I should run some cool games on it.