Lazycoder

Installing a game is hard

I’ve been spending some quality time with our new family laptop. It’s been a while, 6 years to be exact, since we’ve had a non-Apple hardware refresh at the ole’ homestead. The new laptop has a smokin’ processor, compared to the Athlon-850 I had before, and a nice mobile 3d graphics card. So I decide to buy a new game to see what games look like on a real computer. I start to install this game, it only cost $15. Get this. First it installed all the files, but it wouldn’t let me launch the game until I signed into Steam. I remembered I had set up a Steam account a long time ago, but I didn’t remember the username or password.

So to retrieve it, I had to go find my Half-Life CD and enter the key so it would send me the username, then I could use the user name to reset the password. Luckily the email address I used to register was one that’s still active.

Then I signed it and it STILL wouldn’t let me play the game, I had to activate the game first using the CD key on the new game. THEN it had to “decrypt the game contents”. So I think I can play the game now. I’m not sure what else they could possibly want from me.

Although it did remind me why I bought a game console in the first place.