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The Orange Box Gifting Thread
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sorry, i know it's bad form to quote myself, but the OP hasn't been updated since the 13th so I figured everything not on this page might be getting skipped over.
muh.
Steam ID : Nighthawk616
But the fact that groveling posts in this thread actually result in people getting to experience HL2 is a beautiful thing
Ninja Edit!
My request has been fulfilled by the generous öhsee, who I am now eternally indebted to.
Steam ID is alex21201
Remember those that got a gift, and realized they must have orange box as well, you can gift your copies of games too
Click image for my huge backlog :\\\
First to PM me gets it, I guess.
edit: and AggroChan is winnar. He gets a free, complementary trophy.
But yeah, cool idea, I'm kind of suprised people are giving them out so freely and that, it's really cool.. I doubt this would work too well on too many other forums.
Steam ID is alex21201
Steam id: BigKev87
Trying to gift you now, but I need your e-mail address attached to your steam ID, PM me
So yeah, no need to put me on any list.
Can one of you wonderful peoples send me Episode 1?
Half-Life 2 (WANT)
Steam ID : Carcharodontosaurus
ID is alex21201 , so PM me with your ID and I'll swap it for Episode 1.
FDownes - Half-Life 2 (WANT)
FDownes - Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (WANT)
I feel like such a cheap bastard.
I know this topic is somewhat old*, but I can't help but feel that it shouldn't be allowed to die. Free gaming is at stake here people!
I still wants me some Half-Life 2, and I'd rather not be passed over this time.
*I checked the rules, and there doesn't appear to be any hard and fast statements vis a vis older threads and the making of post in them. Four days may be a while, but I felt it was still a reasonable time frame in which to attempt resurrection.
EDIT: I'd like to extend my sincere thanks to Stolls, who saw fit to grant me the joy of Half-Life 2. Thank you Stolls, you utter legend!
Mr Fly, meet Mr Spider, he has a lovely parlour he'd like you to see.
So having received my free HL2 earlier in this thread I just now purchased an Orange Box of my very own. As such I have a gift HL2 to give away to the first person to post in reply.
Come on Kid, all the cool kids are doing it and the first hit is free...
Edit: Gone to Kate of Lokys
WiiU: JamWarrior
I'm at work atm, but if you want it, send me a PM, first comes first served and I'll gift it over when I get home in around 10 hours time or so
Episode 1
My Steam ID is KateLokys. I've never played Half-Life 2, aside from about five minutes of the demo - for a long time, I didn't have a computer capable of doing justice to it, and now that I finally do, I don't have $70 CDN to drop on a game. So, if someone could hook me up, I'd be deeply appreciative.
(And if my boyfriend did something nice like, say, get me the Orange Box for Christmas, I'd certainly be willing to pass on the love by giving my own HL2 and Ep1, unless he wanted to try to run them himself on my old computer).
Edit: HL2 GET. Thanks, Jam Warrior!
It's your lucky day! PM me your email address and it's yours.
WiiU: JamWarrior
I guess the strategy is to get people into Steam and other Valve games. He'll certainly want Episode 1 and so on.
Thankyou so much if anybody does XD
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 (WANT)
noo what are you doing you get half life two on the orange box AND episode one
Indeed. you buy the Orange box now and you will get Ep1 and 2 and another Half Life 2 to give to someone and spread the insidious marketing. Hence the point of the thread.
I'd be very interested to see some numbers on the amount of people who receive a gift HL:2 and subsequently go on to purchase the Orange Box. It really was a freaking genius move.
WiiU: JamWarrior
Um, Orange box COMES with Episode 1! It's why everyone here has been gifting games in the first place!
Look, when you order Orange Box you get the following titles:
Half Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Now, IF you own either HL2 or Episode 1 already when you order Orange Box, you're allowed to gift those to someone else, which is what people have been doing in this thread. So in your case, because you've already got Half Life 2, you'll get an additional copy of HL2 which you can now gift to someone else.
Make sense now?
Forgive me, for I know not what I dooooo...
Well don't I look silly. Silly like a silly man who didn't realise the Orange Box had more awesome in it than previously assumed.
How odd. I thought it was just Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2. My bad. :lol: I guess it's off to EB with me then...
What's funny is that no other company would dare release a product for free, even as a viral marketing move, when they can still release it full price.
I dare say this has generated a lot of word of mouth publishing of HL2 to people who never would have gotten it otherwise.
The first taste is free... :lol:
Half life 2 - sent!
first one to send me a pm gets it
List?
A way to get things for free?
Actually, I just got the Orange Box so I now have a spare Half Life 2 going begging.
PM me and I will reply in the morning (GMT).
DropBox invite link - get 250MB extra free.
Orange Box does not come with Half-Life.
None right now, but I expect to have a spare HL2: Deathmatch soon.
Wants:
Half-Life: Source
Half-Life: Episode 2 (though I doubt anyone would, for any reason, have a spare)
EDIT: Steam name is drathlon
You can't gift HL: Source or Episode 2. The way it works is that people who already had HL2 or Episode 1 before they bought the Orange Box (which includes those two again), can gift the spare copies to another person. The rest of the games are still non-transferable.
Just picked up The Orange Box - happy to report - very satisfied so far. I've played about 4 hours of the campaign. I dig the adult themes. Feels like playing an interesting SCI-fi movie so far. I am not typically a fan of vehicular combat elements in a FPS (I feel I mostly put up with it), but so far, these elements are well done.
I also find the puzzles to this point in the game make contextual sense... i.e. I am not running and gunning and then have to stop to figure out a rubics cube.
Also the 360 achievement Revenge - was very fuckin satisfying! Looking forward to more game time this weekend -