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NJ5 on 11 January 2009

If I buy The Orange Box at a retail store, can I easily use it through Steam to play TF2 with friends who bought it at Steam? I'm asking because I can buy it cheaper at retail than at Steam currently.

(does this question even make sense? it's the first time I'll use Steam)

 



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Squilliam on 11 January 2009

Yes, all Valve games are Steam enabled.



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NJ5 on 11 January 2009

Thanks for the quick answer!



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Zlejedi on 12 January 2009

Yeah and forget about selling them later as when they are registered on steam they are no diffrent from ones bought online.



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Strategyking92 on 12 January 2009

I tried to buy a used version of the ship once.....

Anyway, if you really wanted to, you could resell the game to a goodwill or something. I mean, they would never know :P



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PwrUps on 15 January 2009

It's basically the same thing no matter which way you buy it. Once it's on steam, you can play other steam users, and you won't need the disc anymore.



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IllegalPaladin on 15 January 2009
PwrUps said:
It's basically the same thing no matter which way you buy it. Once it's on steam, you can play other steam users, and you won't need the disc anymore.

 

Unless you want to reinstall it after reformating or install it on a different computer.

I mean, installing from the disks is much easier than having to redownload many gigs worth.

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Steam has been getting a lot of cool additions. Newer games are getting achievements, there's the steam in-game menu where you can chat with friends in both Steam and non-steam games, and they just officially added a web browser (older IE I believe) so you can go check out a guide or something while staying in-game.