Why I am not buying HL2...

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-09-12 11:15am

Darth Wong wrote:
Shinova wrote:Gabe Newell's past history as a Microsoft employee must be showing itself now.

So does this mean that even those who play single-player have to log on to Steam also?
Hopefully, users will boycott the game en masse.

Or worse.

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-09-12 11:28am

Alyeska wrote:Its worse then that. Once you play online for the first time, you MUST have an active internet connection to play single player from that point forward.

I'm betting that single player won't require an active Internet connection once the first patch is released. Too many users with unstable Internet connections (sometimes work well, sometimes don't at all) or with limited online time will be complaining, loudly, that they can't play single player for reasons beyond their control.