Fair play, Amazon did a good job with HalfLife 2.
You have to authenticate each copy of HL2 online before you can play, and you could download the game, bit by bit, before it was released and unlock it to play. The servers opened to allow everyone to authenticate and play HL2 at 8am GMT this morning, so if I had downloaded it, that would have been the earliest I could have played it. Amazon shipped my copy at about 8.30 last night, and it arrived at around 8.30 this morning. That’s only 30 minutes after the HL2 key servers opened. Frankly, I’m impressed. I thought it would be a couple of days before I would be able to play. Thanks Amazon UK!
