Question about Half-Life Complete and Lost Coast

There are exceptions to not getting extra inventory copies, and I think HL2 is one of them.

Edit: The support page says that you get an extra copy of HL2 if you buy the Orange Box or Valve Complete Pack. Nothing about HL2 Complete. So you might or might not.

you could get half life lost coast for free durning portal 2 launch on some convention in valve booth

I'm pretty certain you get it when you buy HL2, no matter what. I got mine with The Orange Box.

It also seems a bit strange that someone could in theory have bought every single game in the set, but still have to buy them all again to get the smallest game in the set.

That's the way Steam works. On several cases I bought game bundles where I already owned some of the games and the extra copies are just lost. It's annoying but that's the way it is.

Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One will include it if they are regular copies. Spare gift copies from redeeming certain packs won't include it.

I own Lost Coast and I only have HL1's & HL2DM...

I got mine from a box copy that included CS:S, DOD:S, HL2:Deathmatch, and HL2: Lost Coast, so there is certainly other ways of getting it. Not to mention what everyone else said so far.

I only bought HL2 and got Lost Coast with it.

While I don't have an answer for you, HL2:LC isn't all that exciting. It really is just a tech demo level Valve release to show off the HRD that is in everything with decent graphics today but wasn't included with the original release of the Source engine. I'm sure you can see it on youtube and I know this explanation doesn't make up for it not being in your inventory, it's not something you should lose sleep over.

there also was a giveaway for NVidia and ATI Graphic card owners. You got Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Portal: The First Strike for free. This offer ran for years, but has now ended.

If you have HL2, just buy the episode 1 and 2 and you'll have all the HL2 related shit like deathmatch and lost coast.

you will get loast coast by buying hl complete,valve complete pack or orange box

I got it when I was gifted HL2. But it never showed up in my library. I had to go to the store page on my browser, using Enhanced Steam. Then I pressed "play now", and my client allowed me to install it.

Yesterday I got (as in "bought") both eps and then I saw HL2 Deathmatch, Lost Coast and Deathmatch Source in my library as well.

I just got Episode 1 and it did indeed come with Lost Coast and Deathmatch. :D

Thanks a lot for all the replies, they were really helpful.

I wanted Half-Life: Source (the only thing I missed from the complete pack) so I had to buy the pack that also had Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, which I already owned.

Dude, dude...
Calm your tits, lost coast is a 15 minute tech demo. You are not missing out on anything. I think you can get it for free if you get both episodes anyway.

My cousin got that game from a Cs-source pack i bought in Spain like 6 years ago