This pisses me off that CS and TF and all those awesome agems for HL were free while I have to pay for TF2 and CSS and such.

Anybody without this game is now not only a moron, but officially insane.

They are not gamers. Let's leave it at that.

to be fair, CSS and TF2 fully deserve being paid. they're awesome

The originals were just as good and they were free. I like my mod games to stay free.

I'd say CSS and TF2 have a lot more polish than the other games...and TF2 has a complete workover of the Source engine, separate from the other games...

Basically, as the graphics got better, it's harder and more expensive to make games like CSS, DODS, TF2...I have no problem at all paying for them.

And this is a great deal for Half Life...you are a bad person if you can't throw 1 dollar at Valve for this awesome game. Bottle of pop or Half Life?

While I agree, I think they way to spurn more interest in a game is to have something along the lines of the "nVidia Make something contest" that they had waaay back in the day. It just seems that recently full conversoins have started to slow down from the days of yore.

Also, I don't know what soda you are drinking, but mine costs me 1 50.

Mine costs 69 cents.  Bubba Cola rules.

Maybe because I'm 2 street away from Coca Cola HQ and they have a monopoly over the entire city. The university is not allowed to sell any Pepsi products in any shape or form. The only working Pepsi machine is a working "prop" in out theater's back room.