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EA To Release New Orange Box Games As Separate PC Titles

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During Electronic Arts' financial conference call today, company execs stated that they plan to release all of the new games in Valve's Orange Box collection (Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) as separate retail games for the PC. The three games will ship to stores for the PC sometime before the end of March; no prices for the games were announced. Of course, Steam owners can already pay and download those three games as separate products.
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TnS - 694 days ago
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It is quite pointless, in my opinion.
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antoinetm - 693 days 22 hours ago
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1.1 - good idea
its basic economics and its the best decision. they should have done that since the beginning.

If the price is right i ll probably get ep1 & ep2.
i already played HL2 and im not interested in teamFort & portal.
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funkeystu - 693 days 21 hours ago
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You should really give portal a try - it is widely regarded as one of the best, if not one of the shortest, titles of the year.
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antoinetm - 693 days 19 hours ago
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umm maybe but i until it comes at a *very* reasonable price considering its shortness then i might :)

(PSN download or smthg)

the way i see it, it has no replay value... since u know how to solve it.
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TheIneffableBob - 693 days 23 hours ago
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Not really sure how this will boost sales, other than taking up more shelf space and increasing visibility, but oh well.
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jackdoe - 693 days 23 hours ago
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HL2 and HL2 Ep1 already have retail boxes. The other three games don't.
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jackdoe - 693 days 23 hours ago
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No point in buying them separately for $20 a pop. Even if you already have some of the games in the OB, you can just give them to a friend as a gift.
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felman87 - 693 days 23 hours ago
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should've done this back in september, would've just bought portal
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hi6hli6ht - 693 days 22 hours ago
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5.1 - portal was a little short
i wouldnt have spent $20 on it even though i thought it was the best one in the pack
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n4gTurnsU_WickedGay - 693 days 22 hours ago
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had i known they were planning on this i would have waited. i only wanted portal, half life's not that great.
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mullet - 693 days 22 hours ago
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Portal and Team Fortress 2 are the only reasons I even like The Orange Box.
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zonetrooper5 - 693 days 21 hours ago
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Great so they are bringing back the Black Box after all this god damn time?

Jeez stupid idiots they are. =|
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marcellizot - 693 days 11 hours ago
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I am just interested to know how Episode three is delivered for consoles when it is finally ready (god know when that will be).

A standalone download is possible but I would much prefer it if Valve released another bumper disc consisting of something like portal 2, Episode 3, a collection of the best HL2 mods and maybe the re-skinned version of Half life that was made with the HL2 engine.

No matter how it is released I will be getting it but it would be great if Valve pulled another great package out of their ass.
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