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Half-Life 2 Steam Offers Ready Thursday

Tomorrow at 11 am PST, the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for purchase.
Details and pricing for these offers are pasted below. Those who purchase via
Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately.
Half-Life 2 and other games in the Steam offerings will be made available to
purchasers upon their release.

ATI/Half-Life 2 bundle owners may redeem their product key for the Bronze offer
or apply their key toward the purchase of either the Silver or Gold offers,
receiving a credit equal to the price of the Bronze offer.

Also tomorrow, the Counter-Strike: Source beta will close. Valve would like to
thank the thousands of gamers who participated in the beta and helped make it a
success.

For more detailed information, please visit www.steampowered.com


Half-Life 2 Steam Offers

STEAM OFFERINGS

1. "Bronze" -- $49.95
-- Half-Life 2*
-- Counter-Strike: Source
*(To be made available upon product's release.)


2. "Silver" -- $59.95
-- Half-Life 2*
-- Counter-Strike: Source
-- Half-Life 1: Source*
-- Day of Defeat: Source*
-- Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam *(To be made available upon
products' release.)


3. "Gold" -- $89.95
-- Half-Life 2*
-- Counter-Strike: Source
-- Half-Life 1: Source*
-- Day of Defeat: Source*
-- Valve's back catalog currently available on Steam
-- Complete Half-Life 2 Strategy Guide from Prima Games
-- 3 different Half-Life 2 posters
-- Half-Life Collector's box
-- Half-Life 2 hat
-- Half-Life 2 postcard
-- Half-Life 2 stickers
-- Half-Life 2 Soundtrack CD
-- Chance to win a trip to Valve! (1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages
purchased).
*(To be made available upon products' release.)

* Bronze - $49.95

o £28 Pounds
o 40.60 Euros
o $63 Canadian Dollars
o 5,555 Japanesse Yen
o 1,460 Russian Rubles

* Silver - $59.95

o £34 Pounds
o 49 Euros
o $75.50 Canadian Dollars
o 6,666 Japanesse Yen
o 1,752 Russian Rubles

* Gold - $89.95

o £50.50 Pounds
o 73 Euros
o $113 Canadian Dollars
o 10,000 Japanesse Yen
o 2,630 Russian Rubles

quote Alias353

I think I'll just stick with the Half-Life 2 Collectors Edition with HL2,CSSource,and HLSource . Enough for me. I don't plan on sporting a Half-Life 2 hat in public.

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Update: Well, it turns out that since Steam is an electronically delivered purchase, Valve is required to add 19% in sales tax

quote Ace

bad news for you Euros

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Update: Well, it turns out that since Steam is an electronically delivered purchase, Valve is required to add 19% in sales tax

that's from shacknews - apparently you guys have some online sales tax that's 19% :0 might want to find someone in North America to create a STEAM account for you and you paypal them or something