Noob question re: episode 1

Okay, this question will come off as ignorant,
I'm sorry, I have never used Steam before and
today I bought Half-Life 2 episode 1 retail,
(at Target on sale) and I find I have a CD that
is blank, and an activation key.

I am assuming that I register the key through
Steam and have the game content downloaded, and
that there was no need or intention to put
anything on the CD itself. Either that or the
product is defective and I will have to return
it.

I did a search on this subject, and asked this
question on some forums only to receive a lot of
ridicule.


To anyone else who purchased the game retail,
is there actually supposed to be any content
on the installation CD? Please educate this
ignorant person.

"noob" <noob RemoveThis @none.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, this question will come off as ignorant,
> I'm sorry, I have never used Steam before and
> today I bought Half-Life 2 episode 1 retail,
> (at Target on sale) and I find I have a CD that
> is blank, and an activation key.
>
> I am assuming that I register the key through
> Steam and have the game content downloaded, and
> that there was no need or intention to put
> anything on the CD itself. Either that or the
> product is defective and I will have to return
> it.
>
> I did a search on this subject, and asked this
> question on some forums only to receive a lot of
> ridicule.
>
>
> To anyone else who purchased the game retail,
> is there actually supposed to be any content
> on the installation CD? Please educate this
> ignorant person.

My CD has the game on it. I think that you got a bad disk. I would return it
if I were you and not just hope that the game will download when you
register the bad CD.

Doug