Half Life 2 pirates banned from Servers

Half Life 2 pirates banned from Servers

Recently Halo 2 users complained about the same problems. More and more gaming companies are banning users to access official game accounts on online servers who are using pirated copies of the popular games.

Game company Valve shut down the accounts of around 20,000 gamers as they had evidence about the illegal status of the copies they owned. Like all other popular games, copies of HL2 managed to land on file sharing networks as soon as the game hit the market.

And the success they have had might prompt more game makers to go ahead with similar methods to discourage game piracy. Valve required the users to authenticate their copies through a system called Steam.

This minor hiccup has resulted in HL2 numbers dropping down in the online gaming charts but is expected to pick up in the coming weeks. But the fact remains, these kinds of authentication measures also manage to irritate genuine users and might result in backlash from the gaming community if implementation gets messier.