January 31, 2008 - 9:00pm
EA announced that they will be selling the contents of the orange box for PC as separate releases.
"We are unbundling Orange Box and releasing separate PC SKUs, Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2," said Warren Jenson, chief financial officer and executive VP at Electronic Arts.
No further details were given, but it is expected that the separate SKUs will hit retail before the end of EA's fiscal year on March 31st. EA didn't reveal the games' prices nor did they announce whether the Orange Box will still be available after they are released.
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f**kyouEA
EA To Cut The Orange Box Open
Good ol EA aye?"Hey let's take perhaps the best game bundle of 2007 and rip it apart to sell each individual game separately for a total cost of more than what the Orange Box originally sold for, yussss"EA, getting less and less people to like them everyday.
EA To Cut The Orange Box Open
You can already do this on Steam except it's a ripoff to buy the games separately.
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Stupidity at its best.
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um.. I dont like EA much and think they better price this cheep. but I do think its a good idea, I dont want to buy off steam seeing as then I need to DL and thats a waste of bandwidth, which is limted for anyone who doesnt live in a city, and as of how havent wanted to buy the orange box seeing as I dont want portal or team fortress, espettily for $40
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f**king EA. Way to f**k up good things, wait, that's their business.
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Ea, take your greed and shove it up your ass. I will now pirate your games if you don't stop being fuggin ass-cakes.
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40 dollars for 3 games. That means they should sell each one for 15 or less. NO WAY they will sell each one for 25 or 30 dollars. JERKS
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you people forget that portal and team fortress are worth d**k f**k all.. and are essentially added as extras becuse thats the only way they would sell
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the whole point of something like this is so that people who don't want to pay $40 for the 3 games can get the one they do want for less. even if it would be cheaper by part to get the whole set, if you dont want the other games its worthless. I haven't bought the orange box yet just for that fact why waste money on something I dont want? the utter idiocy of people who post on this site makes me laugh
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hahaha....owned!!!
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this was not surprising at all considering that Episode one was only sold via Steam in the first place, too. That's why I did not buy the OB: no point in paying for games (portal, TF)I don´t want to and waited for something like this to happen. Yeij, can´t wait for the E2 going gold. It will cost less to buy it solely, you see. Feel sorry for all of you who bought the OB in all that hype and found out that Portal is not game of the year, but a tech demo and TF is just standard sandbox multiplayshooter. HAHAHAHA!ps. in case E2 does not ship solely, i wont buy it.
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Thanks EA for f***ing up things again!! EA = greed greed and more greed
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on the beginning you will buy the game install it and ready to play NOT ANYMORE now you install it and still got to download the dam game EA it sure screw up big time..who wants to spend 6 hours on downloading a game online that should be already on the CD..hell with that crap
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EA: The Long Awaited Valve-killer?
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f**k u EA u pieces of s**t.
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i'd buy half-life episode 2 separate...i was slightly peeved cause i bought the holiday edition(2 years ago) it contains hL1,hL2,hl episode 1...ect, but no episode 2..
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I actually like this idea, because I didn't want to pay for Half-Life 2 again just so I can get Team Fortress 2 and Portal, also I didn't buy it on Steam because I want a physical copy of the game.If anything, this is a good idea, for those that don't want to buy Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 again even though they already have it.
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It’s a good thing I don’t follow the hype of buying games like most gamers.It was just a matter of time… I knew Orange Box games will be sold separately and now I can spend my money on downloading the games I would like to play.Downloading the game is more convenient for me, I can play on other people PC without the worrying about losing /damaging the game disc, it will be mine forever online on my steam account.Question:For people that brought the CD version, once you registered your game on your steam account, can your download the game if you lose your disc?
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EA=Explosive A$sturd$you ain't gettin my money unless everything is under 15$...... ya heard me?
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f**k you EA You Cheap pieces of HumanGarbage. Trying to rape us for every dime we have. You're taking food off little timmies plate every time you nickle and dime me. So you want too starve little timmy? Maybe you want to take all out money so our children have no monies left for college?
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Somebody already did this, they called it 'STEAM'
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Yes! holding on to my dough just paid off...twofold!I put the $50 in the bank, earned interest, and now I can buy just Ep2!!!
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