I can't believe valve. I finished Half Life 2 a couple of weeks ago and now I want to sell my retail copy of game on eBay. It's pefectlly legal and something most of us like to do. It also means other people who can't afford new games get a chance. Anyway, I realised striaght away that I would have to somehow remove the key from my Steam account. No problem, I will check thier FAQ I thought...
Guess what? To reset a HL2 retail CD Key I have to post my printed CD key from the box to an address in the USA... PLUS pay them $10 to reset the Key. This is priracy protection gone too far in my opinion and it is totally unfair. If I had know this before I probably would not have bought this otherwise awsome game.
Why can't they do this online and for free? I see no reason why a key can't just be deactivated from my account and reactivated on another account so that you could only have one cd key active anyway? It's just to make them more dollar and difficult for us to sell HL2 and therefore more people will have to by new copies. This stinks and it's the last game I by from valve!
Go on then Valve fanboy's, tell me why I am an idiot and why this is progress...