Half-Life 2 has gone gold!

[Swiss Mercenary]

Information about what?

Oh, and it turns out I was wrong, you are required to authenticate your copy of HL2 via steam even if you buy retail.  You only have to do this during installation, and after installation you will never have to be connected to the Steam network to play.

source: Gamespy interview with Doug Lombardi http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/half-life-2/558931p1.html
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That's the entire problem. Hence, my personal boycott of anything Steam.

If CD-Keys can be generated, what's so different about "Authentication keys", I wonder, hrm?

That, and as the following poster outlined, such a system won't have any real effect.

Thanks, but no thanks about the game. If I could make a list of any game that I *know* I will never get, it will be Half-Life 2.