gaara said:Whatever, it may seem long now but it's simply Valve taking extra precautions to keep their games legit. I got an update today that they're BETA testing their anti-cheat engine and once it's released, it'll lifetime ban anyone caught using any hacks, which rocks.
VAC will remain effective, for lets say, 1 week max.
NO-CD cracks are not something they really care about since they already have an basicly un piratable game.
And HL2 did take forever to intall on a PC with 512meg of RD 800 Ram.