The key should still work on Steam. And people still play CSS.

I have that!

Play it and put the box on the shelf?

Eat it.

I bought it used and the one who had it before me has already used it.

worship it.

Then make a fancy drink coaster.

HL DM was soooo much better than CSGO imho… idk why it died.

Because it wasnt. All pre-CS DM games had either complete lack of depth or were too hard to play for an mass market gamer.

Team Fortress was kinda an exception, but back then it was hard to find enough players to make it work unless you were playing on internet, and good enough internet was luxury back then.

Then you paid 2€ to learn a lesson... To not buy used multiplayer games

Guess you could sell it to someone else and continue the cycle

Yeah, but Half-Life 2 deathmatch was a legend... How many other deathmatch games let you smash a dude's face in with a toilet bowl?

Or better yet, catch a toilet bowl sent to smash your face in and return to sender?

Didn't know it had an activation key. I won't sell it i will keep it because it looks cool on a shelf and buy the game on steam for like 1€ during the next steam sale.

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Throw it away because the key is already taken?

Realised it too late. I still won't throw it away though.

There are one or two servers alive. I fucking loved HL2:DM. I remember rushing home from school to play it back in the day. Still holds up decently today.

Classic old school death match style choas.

I miss the days when not every fps was objective based with strick competitive elements players must adhere to. There wasn't a patch every week that changes the games meta, we just didn't care if every game element was perfectly and meticulously balanced. Sometimes you just want to jump into some crazy arena style gameplay with lots of choas and jump out. No player ranks, no unlockables, we didn't really even care if the team lost (because wants the point?)

You just played the damn game and were happy with what you got. Nowadays gamers expect everything to be tailor made to fit every need, want, and desire.

Because deathmatch is a crappy and boring multi-player style. That's why people made these mods like Team Fortress and Counterstrike because they wanted actually teamwork.

OG CS was like that actually.

But unlike lets say Quake you it was actually possible to win or at least score some kills without going really in depth.

In CS strategy and smart part of the game was kinda obvious for the new player. In Quake it took some experience to figure out that playing smart is actually more important than having reflexes.

Even DOD is better than CSGO.

That's true. CS actually has strategy, unlike HL2DM which is basically all luck and managed chaos. But maybe that's a good thing? It gives a more arcade like experience. You didn't need to try so hard with that game.

The premise and gameplay was atleast… Source was the way.

Anyone remember SourceForts? I believe it started as a HL2:DM mod, where you'd go to a platform and press a button to spawn a piece of geometry. Then you'd grab the piece and use it to build a base to protect your flag, and when the timer ran out it was game on.

Oh! You can try to recover them possibly. The games may be on some forgotten steam account from years ago but if you go to the account recovery page on steam, I feel like there was a way to select "I don't have access to this email" - then enter the cd code.

With any luck you may be able to turn the account over somehow. 🤷‍♂️

Actually the account name is in the manual because the owner wrote it there for some reasonn but i don't think i want to do that because there is a chance they still use it.

Day of defeat!

Check out their page.

If they haven't logged in for years/these are the only games, chances are they won't be coming back.

I searched for their name and found nothing.

It looks like they also put their password there and i tried the username + password and nothing happened.

I don't think you can search by account name anymore. You used to be able to (maybe?)

But try recovering it. You should have enough information to go on... Who knows?

Nope i need a phone number or email for it.

Well.. you tried. 😅

I was able to recently recover a really old steam account I lost back in like 2006 with like no effort. I think I pretty much just entered the account name and selected "I no longer have access to this email..." Or something like that and it worked... Too bad. : /

They sadly have removed that feature and replaced it with the phone number thing.

I would put it in a display case or something

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Tears of nostalgia

Stick it up your ass