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Very true.  I have no interest in the single-player aspect of HL, or it's
plain vanilla DM experience, but I'm DESPERATELY waiting for TF2.  I was NOT
looking forward to buying HL just so I could pay MORE money to add TF2 to it.
Needless to say, I'm VERY pleased by Valve's decision.

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Mark Blunden wrote in message
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>Has it occurred to you that the large number of people who complained about
>having to buy Half-Life in order to play TF2 are probably one of the
>reasons Valve decided to release it as a standalone? Many people will have
>been in your position, wanting to buy Half-Life for TF2 support, but will
>not have been able to afford to do so. By making TF2 a standalone product,
>Valve answer these peoples' complaints by letting them purchase just one
>piece of software, instead of one piece of software and an add-on.
>Admittedly, by doing so they also piss off people in your position, but
>sometimes you just can't please everybody.