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Re:Xbox One forces gamers to pay for games borrowed from fri... by andy_boot on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:00PM (#5752172)
Steam gained some goodwill by doing things like:

If you buy the HalfLife2 orange box ulimate set and already own HalfLife2. Then you can give your old HL2 copy to a friend for free.

One of the concerns is that people like microsoft wouldn't bother doing the above.

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Re:Xbox One forces gamers to pay for games borrowed from fri... by Spoom on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @04:03PM (#5753344)
One of the nice goodwill things I liked about Steam was that when I registered my original copy of Half-Life, they gave me all the extension packs for free. Might have been because they couldn't tell by the CD key whether I had just Half-Life or the pack that included them, but I didn't care.
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Re:Xbox One forces gamers to pay for games borrowed from fri... by drdaeman on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:00PM (#5752615)
This only applies to some of Valve's own games (Half-Life, Portal and Left4Dead, can't remember others).
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