It appears that Valve will soon be replacing the WON ID system of user authentication that Half-Life has used since the very beginning with Steam. Here"s some quotes from Valve"s Erik Johnson yanked from this Steam forum thread:
- - There will no longer be a WonID system, it will be replaced by the SteamID system.
- When we convert the userbase to Steam, a single WonID will be valid for all of the products.
- If you"re purchased a product from us at retail, you"re going to have access to all of our products via Steam.
- No, you do not have to pay for Steam.
- - That is correct, you"ll have to have Steam installed to play the most current version of Half-Life.