Half-Life 2 Pricing Plans
Got this from ShackNews.com- looks good.
1: Retail box, singleplayer, no multiplayer - ONE TIME FEE!
2: Retail box, singleplayer and multiplayer - ONE TIME FEE!
3: Retail box, singleplayer, multiplayer and other unknown cool stuff (collectors edition) - ONE TIME FEE!
4: STEAM, singleplayer and multiplayer - ONE TIME FEE!
5: STEAM, subscription model. Pay a montly fee and have access to all Valve titles, including the stuff on STEAM now (HL, OpFor, CS, TFC, etc), Half-Life 2, all future stuff they put out, and so forth.
Second, patches (bugfixes, maintenance releases, etc) will be free no matter which of the six option you decide to go for.
Community-based mods will be free unless the authors want to charge for them. Free community based mods will/can be made available though STEAM free of charge.
