See? See?
Now do you understand, you silly publishers? Valve knows what the deal is. This is the way to market games.

Tomorrow at 11 am PST, the Half-Life 2 Steam offers will be ready for purchase. Details and pricing for these offers are pasted below. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately. Half-Life 2 and other games in the Steam offerings will be made available to purchasers upon their release.

ATI/Half-Life 2 bundle owners may redeem their product key for the Bronze offer or apply their key toward the purchase of either the Silver or Gold offers, receiving a credit equal to the price of the Bronze offer.

Also tomorrow, the Counter-Strike: Source beta will close. Valve would like to thank the thousands of gamers who participated in the beta and helped make it a success.

For more detailed information, please visit www.steampowered.com

Anyone who says you can't sell games online is wrong. Just. Plain. Wrong. If people think they are getting their money's worth, they will buy online. I plan on it, and if you're as excited about this game as I am, I think you should too.  ¶ 5:01 p.m.