I believe this is the all time low price for this bundle.
ABOUT THE GAME
The Orange Box is a bundle that includes five titles from Valve: Half-Life 2; Half-Life 2:Episode 1; Half-Life 2: Episode Two; Team Fortress 2, the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map; and Portal, the game that blends puzzles, first person action, and adventure gaming to produce an experience like no other.
Just bundle it with the Steam Deck.
Right? It can be a gmod revival if it's free
At this point it feels like an experiment from Valve.
Can we get a seperate category in gaming for digital / subscriptions?
Feel like no physical games get posted anymore and it's all stuff like this.
Back in my day, the orange box was released in physical stores 🧓
still wasn't on the disc, so it was more of a drink coaster set.
I think it has the steam client installer on it lol
@reactor-au: Still it's the point, be a lot easier if they split gaming into two categories, digital / physical stuff.
Just seems to me the whole gaming section is being flooded by digital stuff.
It was when I bought it, though pretty soon after release there was no point in using them because it took longer to read from the discs then patch than just downloading it.
Best $50 ever
I bought the physical box from a bricks & mortar store. I immediately became addicted to TFC.
I bought the orange box PC version secondhand at an op shop… only to get it home and realise it was useless as needed steam and the code was of course already used.
:(
Did you end up getting it?
Need some closure please
and the cashier was Jesus………. 😂
1) you can post the physical game deals when you find them. You're one of the few still looking so you're more likely to find them than most.
2) digital games often have potential to be far, far cheaper than physical games. Not typical pricing of course, but the outliers are really great.
3) physical games get posted all the time? I have seen tons of $10 AAA physical games posted.
4) steam is having a big sale right now. Of course there will be more of those deals around.
Back in my day we be posting Brashs deals.
And booking concert tickets at Mitchells Bass
Honestly theres been a ton of cracking amazon deals lately especially on ps5 physical games.
I've not been posting them much because in the past by the time you've done them someones already done a much better collated version of them and eb sales before you've even got it posted.
Honestly most of the time I dont get where a lot of people get the idea digital is cheaper, when there are some sales sometimes yes digital can have cheaper stuff but 90% of the time it's way more expensive than physical especially for ps5.
I strongly agree that digital isn't cheaper, but I'd very much suggest that it can be cheaper. You won't often find AAA games for $2 like you often can on Steam
Most of the time, at any given time, you're more likely to get PS5 games cheaper in some physical store than you may on the exclusive online store
Physical PC games? Do those even exist anymore? When you buy physical cases they just come with a steam code.
quite a few places are still doing them, limited run and other suppliers have seen a huge increase in them.
Doing what? Providing the game on a disk? I've not had an optical disk drive in a PC for around 20 years. I'm surely not an outlier on that either. Not suggesting it not a thing but I can't see it. Is it a CD, DVD, Blu-ray HDDVD. Who has these drives?
@xvanx: CD, DVD and USB.
A lot of companies are getting on board with physical media for collectors as a lot of people are getting sick of games being delisted, censored or just unable to purchase in the first place.
Retro market is also heavily booming to a point that a lot of retailers are trying to stock up on retro pc titles as well as limited print titles that are coming out.
The recent release of powerslave exhumed is a good example.
Weird how consoles are criticised for going all digital when PC has been there for a long time already.
Part of the issue is (and please don't take offense to this) a lot of pc people were quick to critisize people like EA for forced online activation, when steam did it they not only gave them a free pass they celebrated it despite it coming with even more restrictions such as not being able to install of a disc without a steam account with the key locked to it.
Valve were always at a point where they had so much good will they could do whatever they wanted to customer rights and as long as they made promises, delivered some of what they promised and were in on memes people never cared about their rights eroding.
Consoles being critisized heavily for going all digital have copped it because they don't have the same goodwill as valve.
Because of the fanbase that valve made, they can get away with so much such as spying on customers and it's celebrated.
Host asset flip games it's never valve's fault, allow patches to break games, remove content, no right to version 1.0 of a game etc, Steam have built such a religeon that nothing can be said against steam or valve.
Which love them or hate them, they shouldn't be immune from critical views and discourse.
One of their biggest promises they've always made is that if they go out of business they'd unlock all games to play offline with no drm, which they've never detailed how they would do…. and yet not done it for games that have been delisted or gone open source which has always sat a bit suss with me.
Then you have a week like last week where a lot of sony accounts lost access to all their digital inventory, with sony support refusing to help people, so people lost entire collections, and recently when it seemed that Xbox was throwing in the towel where it had a lot of people worried that gamepass was going away with all its games and that xbox would be sunsetted meaning that all the games had an expiry date.
It all points to a really sad fact, all digital titles have an expiry date.
Sadly have had first hand experience with this. A few years ago a collegue of mine died at work a while later his son who games with him wanted to continue using his account at minimum for various platforms, or merge his account with his and maintain his vast collection of games.
Xbox didn't even reply to anything, and so he kept on using the xbox account, no way to transfer the games, no way to merge the accounts, but so long as his email remains active he can still play his library of games on there and so long as the same system is being used that his account is on, his son can still play the games.
EA were actually helpful and after proof of his passing transferred his accounts over.
The team behind guild wars were pretty cool about it and even did a "in memorium" account so he can go and visit his fathers resting place online
Steam and valve were absolutely horrible, they at first suggested that he setup a family link on the account, and while trying to do it needed additional details and passwords he didnt have, when he submitted to the customer service people proof of his death, they sunsetted his account and locked it.
No more access to the account and all the games gone.
Absolutely horrible of them.
@Guybrush57: part of your problem here is that you never really own anything digital due to how the laws are here, and the deal is between the account holder and the platform owner, so as soon as you pass on, your account is over in most cases it seems.
Theres no real established laws or process for this kinda stuff as we found out.
Portal alone is worth the price if you haven't played it before
The other titles are also very good
For some reason it still costs me $1.47 despite already owning every product in the bundle.
same lol
Tempted to hop back on for a few hours of tf2 24/7 2fort
Surely everyone already owns this ;)
You'd be surprised…
This or valve complete pack?
Worth getting to try HL2 VR
Thanks op, finally own it lol
Part of gaming history. Truly a golden period. I have the original orange dvd case. TF2 has an active community still today..
Buybuybuy.
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Just make it free already!