whats the latest on HL2???

[Helevitia]

Well, it's official, HL2 is pre-loading. This can only be good news. The release is immenent.

[Novdid]

yippeeeee!

[Elie]

What's all this pre load stuff, can someone please explain?

Thanks,
Elie

[Jon P. Inghram]

It's just for people who want to buy it online, they're distributing the bulky parts of the game (graphics and audio data and whatnot, encrypted of course) early so that when the game goes gold they just need to make a small download and be able to play right away without crushing Valves servers with an sudden onslaught of downloads.

[Elie]

Thanks Jon for the explanation.

[Paddy]

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&postid=492519#post492519