OK, so heres the story. My brother bought me HL2 for my birthday today. Now we all know Steam has a strict actvation policy for this game. Well I broke the seal and opened the game and the CD's were all in disarray. Some of them were half out of their sleeves and one of them was completely out of the sleeve. Ok so this kinda made me concerned, I proceeded to check out the CDs and sure enough 3 of them were scratched, one of which had a perfect circular scratch. Now we all know that circular scratches only occur when you eject a CD from the drive while its still spinning. Obviously the game had been opened, of course I didn't even bother installing it, I popped it back in the box and headed up to the store. I'd be willing to bet that if I had installed, the CD key wouldn't have worked. Its a shame people will be so thoughtless as to buy a game, open it carfully, use it and then return it. They only hurt other people who just want to play the game lawfully.
