Half-life 2 On Store Shelves

[Cygnuz-Y]

Playable, pirated, Russian-language copies of Half-Life 2 are on store shelves in Novosibirsk, Russia.


http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2004/news/01/16/hl2_screen001.jpg

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[DWk]

<_< Source?

[Cygnuz-Y]

SOURCE&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/news_6086659.html) <_<

[SciManAl]

LMAO would like that to happen here, so i could pirate it from the store... :lol:

very nice :lol:
hehehe :P :ph34r:

[infamousalbo101]

anon release I would of got it before anybody

[Mr. Elmo]

wait, if its pirated, how would it be legal to put on store shelves

[LSA]

wait, if its pirated, how would it be legal to put on store shelves

It is in Russia, don&#39;t have as many copyright laws or are more worried about other things I guess.

[slammy_dunken]

Originally posted by LSA@17 January 2004 - 14:45

wait, if its pirated, how would it be legal to put on store shelves

It is in Russia, don&#39;t have as many copyright laws or are more worried about other things I guess.
Not really. Russia&#39;s economy is so screwed up right now that it&#39;s mostly run by the black market, so it&#39;s not that surprising if you find a copy of HL2 or FarCry Beta there.

[james_bond_rulez]

i had fun with russian babes when i was in Moscow

they&#39;ll do anything u ask if u got cash....(100 US)

i had fun.... :lol:

[slammy_dunken]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@17 January 2004 - 16:53
i had fun with russian babes when i was in Moscow

they&#39;ll do anything u ask if u got cash....(100 US)

i had fun.... :lol:
lol. But isn&#39;t Bond British? :P :lol:

[james_bond_rulez]

James Bond is the king of shag

i am just living up to his name ;)


*cocks gun*

[Marius24]

how come when i downloaded the anon one it was just half life 1 :huh:


was i doing something wrong :ph34r:

[Twist3r]

Originally posted by Cygnuz&#045;Y@17 January 2004 - 19:00

Playable, pirated, Russian-language copies of Half-Life 2 are on store shelves in Novosibirsk, Russia.


sence its pirated, it wouldnt be that illigal to steal it from the stor :lol:

[Pitbul]

Originally posted by Marius24@17 January 2004 - 16:37
how come when i downloaded the anon one it was just half life 1 :huh:


was i doing something wrong :ph34r:
cause You SUCK, the one you didn&#39;t get was the Real one.

[h1]

Most people on this BBS do not understand economics in Asia and Eastern Europe. Being Asian, I can tell you firsthand that things like this keep about a million families alive - and that&#39;s conservative estimate. I.E. - In my home country of Bangladesh, almost everything is pirated... be it games, software, shoes, clothes, Coke, etc. The piracy rate in Thailand is 97% of all commercial goods. In Romania it&#39;s 98%.

This might seem like BS that doesn&#39;t belong in GameWorld, but what I wanted to say that this is not the exception, it&#39;s the rule.

[Mr. Elmo]

do you have any real evidence to back up that? 98% is a little too much for me to beleive....and my friend is asian, he went to vietnam last month, and judging from the pics he brough back and him, that aint always true

[DWk]

Originally posted by haxor41789@18 January 2004 - 00:21
Most people on this BBS do not understand economics in Asia and Eastern Europe. Being Asian, I can tell you firsthand that things like this keep about a million families alive - and that&#39;s conservative estimate. I.E. - In my home country of Bangladesh, almost everything is pirated... be it games, software, shoes, clothes, Coke, etc. The piracy rate in Thailand is 97% of all commercial goods. In Romania it&#39;s 98%.

This might seem like BS that doesn&#39;t belong in GameWorld, but what I wanted to say that this is not the exception, it&#39;s the rule.
Yey&#33; Guatemala is there too&#33;&#33;&#33; Well it&#39;s not that much percent of piracy, specially because we don&#39;t have much reach to technology and new stuff, but yea.

There&#39;s an avenue ("the 6th") in which you can go buy all the clothes, radios, and whatever you can imagine, all cheap and with the tags off. As you said, it&#39;s how a country survives :)

[Peerzy]

if anyone is in russia now. i beg you to go down to ur local black market dealer buy one of these copy it and upload to bittorent and kazaa take the game back saying it didnt work and get your money back. and you will forever be known as the person who first pirated a working copy of one of the if not the biggest pc game of all time.

Go NOW :rolleyes:

[james_bond_rulez]

well if it is indeed on sale now we dont need to go anyways

it will be online soon :lol:

otherwise the rumors are not true <_<

[Peerzy]

i just read the other post and am about to check suprnova (even tho i wont b able tyo d/l myself) but is this russian version FULL or the same BETA from suprnova?

[Marius24]

Originally posted by Pitbul+18 January 2004 - 05:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Pitbul &#064; 18 January 2004 - 05:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Marius24@17 January 2004 - 16:37
how come when i downloaded the anon one it was just half life 1 :huh:


was i doing something wrong :ph34r:
cause You SUCK, the one you didn&#39;t get was the Real one. [/b][/quote]
yeah thanks 4 that dick :angry: