For the launch of Steam on Mac, they're making Portal free for a short time, so go download it now http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

 

Is it free to use forever as long as you acquire it by May 24th or will Steam only allow you to play it at no-charge until May 24th? The Steam page is more than a little ambiguous about that. Not like it's a problem to finish the game in 12 days so you're pretty much guaranteed at least one complete playthrough for free.

 

I think it's a free copy, otherwise they usually just do a "free weekend" or whatever. I think I got CS source and TF classic the same way a couple of years ago.

 

Don't know what it is, but Im downloading it...

 

Wow, that did absolutely nothing...

 

The servers are choked now from everyone downloading it.

And yeah, it's yours for good
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...7#post14910927

 

what is Portal?

 

I thought STEAM was a game

So this entire time I never read any of the rumors about it...so now I have no real clue what steam is, other than some type of gaming service for mac.

 

^^Seems to be a gaming portal for Mac / PC, sort of like popcap with a UI. Im very slowly downloading Portal now...

 

Its 4 GB's...

 

For anyone that doesn't know what the game is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA9ChSA6wV4

 

meh.. after playing portal on the orange box... i found out why they had to bundle it with 2 other games to sell it.

 

I've heard nothing but awesome things about it, except that it's a short game. I'll see, it's worth one mouse click to download.

Apparently there's a modded server on Team Fortress 2 that allows use of the portal gun. I'll have to find it and see how that plays

 

Was it on a console? Specifically the ps3? The ports weren't that great.


Portal was by far my favorite game of 2008. Heck, I think have the ending song memorized.

 

i guess the big deal is that steam has been PC only since ... i think 2002/2003?

and now they're finally porting it over to macs

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02n2yYBwHXo

 

OK...so is Steam just an online gaming hub?

 

when i last used it yea.

its kind of like xbox live. where you can download games and have a friends list and play games with them.

i guess its also the first time that half life and its related games will be playable on a mac?

 

"The Orange Box"

was offered on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. in 2007

it came with..

Team Fortress
Half Life 2
Half life 2 Ep. one
Half life 2 Ep. two
and Portal

portal was my least favorite on that disc.

 

I'm gonna take this to mean that you need to right click to shoot the blue ringed portal, in that case

 

Played it for a little on my Mac and couldn't figure out hot to get out of the first room...FML