Orange Box available for pre-order

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Valve's Orange Box, consisting of Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal is now available for pre-order on Steam with a 10% discount. The whole lot, after the discount, will set you back roughly AU$54.

Not only do you get the games cheaper if you pre-order, but you'll also get to play the Team Fortress 2 beta from Monday September 17th and get a special Half-Life 2 themed version of Peggle Extreme. Which is nice.

The Orange Box is due for release on October 10th, 2007.

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32 Comments

A13x

4 years ago

I'm sold, why bother buying retail!

You get it cheaper, with 10% off, a beta and a free game if you buy online

<3 Steam

longarms

4 years ago

and this is why i love steam

LooneyVoltage

4 years ago

Just finished purchasing it. Best thing i've ever done, $129 separate or $45 including the beta and free game. Just had a play of it and its pretty funny to see a unicorn getting eaten by a headcrab lol. Plus i think its a great idea what they are doing with the Gift Idea. If someone has already purchased HL2 or Episode 1 they are able to use the copy of HL2 and Episode 1 that they get with the Orange Box and give it to a friend to play.

Passa

4 years ago

Hmm.. no Black Box pre-order option?

Tristan

4 years ago

Peggle! Count me in. No seriously. One of the best 'casual' games ever.

It's amazing to see just how well Steam have turned things around from their early days.

arbok

4 years ago

Steam is the best.

The only problem i have is not being able to combine games i bought at retail and steam purchased expansion packs.

Im thinking about buying this pack - but Team Fortress 2 is the only game I'm interested in and everyone will be so good at FPSs that Im not sure ill bother.

the doag

4 years ago

Is this just the PC price? I am interested in grabbing this on the PS3.

A13x

4 years ago

I've just bought it, an I'm playing Peggle right now.

Having never even heard of Peggle before, its great fun and pretty funny also. Can't wait for the TF2 Beta and of course the actual release.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

just finished Peggle - pity it's pretty much only a demo.

so now i have an extra HL2 and HL2E1 licence. =/

EDIT: ah sweet - i'll be able to giveaway those licences when Orange Box launches. pretty clever marketing ploy really - get people to giveaway HL2/E1 to someone who hasn't played them - get them hooked so they buy Orange Box and have to giveaway their excess licences - snowballing.

please don't PM me about the extra licences - i can't do anything with them until Orange Box is released in October.
i'll probably start some thread to act as a repository for excess licences, so those people with friends with taste (ie: they've all already got HL2/E1) or without friends can give them away here, or something.

thebigm

4 years ago

the doag wrote

Is this just the PC price? I am interested in grabbing this on the PS3.

Steam only price.

Looking at $100 + for PS3 in November some time.

Should be pre-ordering soon, can't wait to play TF2, and still need to get HL2:EP1 so it works out really well price wise for me.

borgster101

4 years ago

Where's my BLACK box!!?

tootie_kicks

4 years ago

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference between the Orange Box and the Black Box?

A13x

4 years ago

Black was cancelled a few months ago.

It contained only the new games Ep2, TF2 and Portal, while orange has HL2 and Ep1.

Passa

4 years ago

A13x wrote

Black was cancelled a few months ago.

It contained only the new games Ep2, TF2 and Portal, while orange has HL2 and Ep1.

I thought Black was still coming to Steam, just not retail?..

Aftershock

4 years ago

Passa wrote

A13x wrote

Black was cancelled a few months ago.

It contained only the new games Ep2, TF2 and Portal, while orange has HL2 and Ep1.

I thought Black was still coming to Steam, just not retail?..

Nope. Although im sure somewhere down the track you will be able to buy them seperately on Steam.

borgster101

4 years ago

So wait there will be no way to purchase Episode 2 without buying games I already own? That's weak! You'd think they'd at least offer the game via Steam!

838 La

4 years ago

I got my BlackBox Voucher from ATI.

Works, & preloading TF2 now.

No Peggle though. Oh wells.

thebigm

4 years ago

borgster101 wrote

So wait there will be no way to purchase Episode 2 without buying games I already own? That's weak! You'd think they'd at least offer the game via Steam!

There is, you can buy it separately for US $30.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

borgster101 wrote

So wait there will be no way to purchase Episode 2 without buying games I already own? That's weak! You'd think they'd at least offer the game via Steam!

at the moment: correct - though it really only hurts people who ONLY want E2 - ie: no TF2, no Portal.

there is a price on steam for the titles individually, which is $30 for E2, and $20 each for Portal and TF2, so if you want one of those extra games (ie: Portal), the Orange Box is currently $5 cheaper than the rrp of those two titles.

and you get 2 titles you already own.

EDIT:
prices are actually:
E2 = $30USD
TF2 = $30USD
Portal = $20USD

James

4 years ago

Will pre-order when I get home. Finally, some digital distribution done right

Passa

4 years ago

James wrote

Will pre-order when I get home. Finally, some digital distribution done right

Hardly. I'm rather irked that I need to buy Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 again, and even if I can give away the licenses, I don't know anyone who hasn't got the game or wants the game. Really looking out for their previous customers.

By the way, do these licenses have expiry dates like those game invite things?

EDIT: Only topping off when I pre-ordered Episode 1 through Steam, and was charged twice on my credit card. Steam support was useless, as always.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

eh?

i got charged twice when i bought E1 too, but i sent them an email and got it refunded within 48 hours.

and thanks to shifting dollar values, i got more back than i paid.

borgster101

4 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

borgster101 wrote

So wait there will be no way to purchase Episode 2 without buying games I already own? That's weak! You'd think they'd at least offer the game via Steam!

Yeah after thinking about it a bit more the Orange Box is still a decent deal, 3 games for $54AU is still good

Though I admit I really only want Episode 2, so it still kind of sucks, however I am intersted in Portal as well, so even just these two in the package is good

bigm notice how on Steam it has Ep2 for $30 but there is no way to actually purchase it by itself

Kind of annoying, since I'm primarly after the Episode, but like I said Portal has me intrigued.

I guess if I want to play Ep2 at launch (which I do) I have little choice

, also it's cheaper at the moment at the discount so ... leaning towards going with the Orange Box via Steam. And you can sell HL2 and Ep1 right?

Edit According to this post on the Steam forums, you can purchase the games indivdiually after October 9th, can anyone confirm this? In which case I can just get my Episode 2

Which would be nice, however as I said before Portal does look cool, damn it!

Passa

4 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

eh?

i got charged twice when i bought E1 too, but i sent them an email and got it refunded within 48 hours.

and thanks to shifting dollar values, i got more back than i paid.

Nope, they told me they would have to 'lock out' my account for an undescribed amount of time while they 'investigated' if I had been charged twice or not.

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