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VC:
Hence, you are an unpaid salesman who fights to keep Gabe's KFC bucket filled.
What's to do when tonnes of people have these loaner HL2 accounts? Use them to get people to try out GES or something? Naaah.
oboe:
--- Quote from: Polizei on October 04, 2007, 06:54:06 am ---Put the games in another account and then you can lend that account out to friends. If they do decide to buy the orange box as a result, they will not be pissed that they are "buying HL2 over again" because it's still yours. You can repeat this with many friends.
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or sell the keys themselves.
Polizei:
--- Quote from: Viashino Cutthroat on October 04, 2007, 10:55:51 am ---Hence, you are an unpaid salesman who fights to keep Gabe's KFC bucket filled.
What's to do when tonnes of people have these loaner HL2 accounts? Use them to get people to try out GES or something? Naaah.
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I'm sure everyone has a friend who would love HL2 but just won't bother to pay for it. Some of us even have several friends in the same position. You're not so much a salesman as a pusher; as D.A.R.E. taught us, peer pressure only leads to good things/supporting terror. So where would you rather your dollar go? Paying the bills? Why not do something flashy, something with pizzaz? 50/50 shot, KFC or WW3. It's win/win. And your friends get to play, too! It's more like win/win/win.
Ryan [Saiz]:
Well just think of it valve is actually pretty smart. You buy the orange box already owning hl2 and ep1. You give your keys to a friend he/she plays through them and says wow this is a great series. They buy the orange box and pass along their extra keys and so on and so forth. The steam population is going to be exponentially growing after the orange box release on pc. Console idiots don't get steam :)
Polizei:
I think the complaint is that this is an evil business tactic. There's no question in anyone's mind that valve has that intent, the preloading page itself suggests you gift the copies. I am merely presenting a workaround that gives you yourself more control over who is being brought into the steam community.
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