Half-Life 2 authentication collapses

We predicted in a post last week, with a throwaway remark, that Steam would collapse under the weight of the online authentication needed to run the store bought version of Half-Life 2.

Well, in a spooky bit of premonition, Steam has collapsed under the weight of the online authentication needed to run the store bought version Half-Life 2. It feels so good to be right. The problem appears to mainly be in Europe, and does NOT seem to effect the Steam downloaded version of the game. Merely the store bought version that 90% of people probably have.

There is something enjoyable about predicting this a week or so before it happened. Next we predict the demise of Microsoft, Acclaim will rises from the ashes, and the biggest selling game of next year will be "Ashlee Simpson's Karaoke Dance Party".