Left 4 Dead 1/2 PC Retail Version?

[yukimaru!]

So a few years back, i bought a copy of L4D1 on PC. It was not in a case, instead it was some sort of envelope looking package, had a mousepad too. A while later i bought L4D2 at the same store, for some reason it came with four discs inside, dunno why. It was pretty cool, had a whole load of stuff, like the original 5 campaign posters. Not too long ago, i was just doing some random stuff on steam and i found a page where it said my L4D2 copy was "retail". I decided to search for it on the internet but i didnt really find anything at all, I remembered after i bought both games at the same store there wasnt anymore copies of it. Wondering if anyone could shed some light on this or give me some information about this "retail" copy.

[ONe_mOMENT]

It was a retail Key that you activated. That's all it means.

[Zekiran]

Rather than digital, in other words.

[Snapjak]

Publicado originalmente por ONe_mOMENT:

It was a retail Key that you activated. That's all it means.

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

Rather than digital, in other words.

Though all key activations show as retail so there's no way to differentiate between an actual brick & mortar purchase vs say a Humble Bundle digital key.

[yukimaru!]

Oh no, thanks guys but that's not what i meant. I meant the game packaging itself, i cant seem to find it anywhere else.

[Zekiran]

Dunno - there's only the one mouse pad available officially on the Valve store, what's it got on it? That might indicate someone actually opened their product and put them IN the envelopes, and then resold (without having actually used the key which is amazingly rare in PC resales) it with the mousepad?

And @Snapjack the codes themselves would probably have records of whether they were digitally generated or printed for retail though. Obviously I'm not positive of that, but they do have ways of making codes work to the company's data collecting advantage.

[yukimaru!]

Sorry for the super late reply, mousepad looks like this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/29/c1/f5/29c1f50dc7ab1aa9ebe40a005fff4fa1.jpg