Buying Half-Life 2 right now!

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Are you talking about downloading games from the publisher/distributor via internet? If so, I was reading in another forum that Matrix games is doing this (or going to do this). The bad side about this is that, according to the posters is that Matrix will not allow the buyer to sell the game. Pretty crappy of Matrix if this is true (I have not checked out the Matrix site to see if this is their policy).

Yeah, thats what I was saying. Here is what I see-

Take, for example, Doom 3. It was shipped to the stores early, and then held for the ship date. If a company (like gamestop/eb games) could work out the legal arrangements, they just offer a service to let people preload the game, then they would be able to play it the day it is released. This way, people not near a store could get it easily, and it would just be more convienient. If the retailers could adapt, I think they could survive.