Halflife 2 Steam Registration - personal details ?

[Jim N]

Hi,

Can someone tell me what personal details (if any) you must give when
installing Halflife 2 using that Steam online activation garbage ?

cheers

Jimbo

 

[Paul Smith]

Can someone tell me what personal details (if any) you must give when
installing Halflife 2 using that Steam online activation garbage ?

If you're buying it over Steam then your credit card details, and therefore
your address more then likely.

The standard retail box requires a Steam account which is basically just a
username and password (e-mail address I believe is optional).

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[Jimmy S.]

Hi Jim,

I wouldn't put personal information such as home address and phone
number in there, however I would definitely include my state / postal
code / area code / contact email. However, there's a lot of discussion
about the benefits of activating Steam going on in this thread:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=278444&whichpage=3&#1739681

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[H]

Hi,

Can someone tell me what personal details (if any) you must give when
installing Halflife 2 using that Steam online activation garbage ?

cheers

Jimbo

I have given them a contact name and a email address (one i use for non
personal stuff) Other than that they have my IP address and as such the
info that can be gleamed from that. (I bought it physically)HL2Dm really
makes it worth it I`have really had no problem with it, about as much
problem as the XP activation thing. It would have been nice to not have
to bother with it, still it is not a big problem for now. But if the
corporations in the future demands more info my opinion will change.