Free Half-Life 2 games via Steam for ATI Radeon owners

Valve, you don't need to make your games free. Really, I want to pay for them. I have good money right here that I will pay for Half-Life 2, you just need to make it available for Mac and the money is yours. Won't you let me be your customer?

thats been going on for a while. i got HL2 for free for getting an ATI 9600 or something like 3 years ago

I feel like I was just punished for getting the wrong brand of video cards...

What can I say the Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT PCI-e was a hellofalot cheaper than the ATI equivilent at the time.

haha, oh wow, nice. shame i have a daily cap of 500mb, else id totally be downloading these

Normally when you buy a $500 video card, you do get some free games.

nVidia FTW!!

Good, I needed a new graphics card anyway for Spore in a few months. Now I at least get HL2:E2 for free.

www.petitiononline.com/Valvepet/petition.html

This is friggin excellent. All my Macs use ATi so I've installed them on my families machines for a bit of deathmatch fun :)

and I'm buying half price Episode 1! I never thought it was worth the full asking price for a very short game. This really is great for me.

So with my current all in wonder, I'll get games I already own for free, sweet?

My 8800GTS, even after I buy HL2:2, and portal, will still be cheaper than the 2900XT, and will have more mature drivers.

Also, do we have a release date for HL2:2 yet? I've been wanting to play it, and portal since episode 1 was released. What's the point of episodic content if you don't release the next episode until a year later? I'm waiting a year to play all of what, 3 hours of gameplay?

It seems like game development is just taking longer and longer these days.

hey do i need half life 2 for these to work, or do I simply download these two free games and they work on their own?

Next time, choose a better image for stories like this. I rushed to my computer with steam and an ATI card on it, only to discover that half-life episode one isn't one of the free games. Thanks.

@ Ghede

the image they "chose" is actually what is on the Steam site right now, if you have an issue take it up with them

@ 6

Final Prototype, I'm sorry to break this to you, but Spore's not coming until Q2 '08...

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/08/no-spore-until-q2-2008-no-seriously/

*Cries inside*

I believe ATi ceased to exist some time ago.

@ 10 Mark F
you dont need Half Life 2 to play HL episode 1 and episode 2 each game is independent if you purchase an ATI HD 2900XT you are getting HL2 goodness, portal and team fortress but you also will recieve day of defeat WW2 multiplayer game for free via steam while you wait for the rest of the games that i already mention, nice bundle rigth, i recommend anyone the new ATI HD 2900XT it has better performance and features than the Nvidia 8800 GTS 640mb........

Wow, so let me get this straight. If you buy an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT card, you get Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two? Sweet, will those actually come out before that card becomes obsolete or what?

@ 17 aux
That does`nt make sence....

@ 17 aux
That does`nt make sence of course they will be for 2007 not until 2008, shame on you.......

@ 17 aux
this games will be out for this year not 2008.......

Wait, I'm confused -- "Lost Coast" was like a half-hour tech-demo or something, I thought (and free to all HL2 owners anyway, IIRC), and HL2 Deathmatch is pointless (and also, I thought, free to all HL2 owners. Unless this program has been going on since HL2 was first released? I bought HL2 when it first came out, and I remember playing through Lost Coast shortly thereafter (and definitely didn't pay for it). HL2 Deathmatch was available the day I bought HL2 (I think), and I didn't install it, but I was pretty sure it was free at the time.


Did they start charging for previously-free content sometime in the last year or two (and then make it free again for certain people), or did I miss something?

Update: I think I get it now -- if you happen to own an ATI card, but not HL2, you can still get a "taste" of the game with deathmatch and one single-player level (Lost Coast). Why not make these free to everybody? You'd probably sell more HL2 bundles that way...

@21 & 22 James
Update2: the games that will be free if you own an ATI 2900XT are Half life 2 Episode 2,Portal and Team Fortress 2 the black box include the code or codes for this 3 games beside the other 2 games that you just mention, did you get it now............

Update 3: i forgot to tell you that if you own the HD 2900XT you also recieve Day of Defeat a multiplayer WW2 game, btw is fun..........