HL2 Source leaked

[Howard]

This should never happen to anybody.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: Alternex

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: Alternex
Other game developers could easily use this without getting caught. You just study the code/ideas and write your own using those ideas. How often does code get leaked for major games? I have the source to a couple major games but would never leak them out

But you're not producing any high-profile games, either.

i don't think you understand.. i used to be a developer at a high-profile game company

you think another company would be as underhanded to use valves source code, let alone find and download it?

Sure, why not? The stuff in there is golden; shading, sound, physics, etc. You obviously wouldn't want to take the code line by line, but the ideas expressed by the code are extremely valuable.

 

[Alternex]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox

Originally posted by: Alternex

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: Alternex
Other game developers could easily use this without getting caught. You just study the code/ideas and write your own using those ideas. How often does code get leaked for major games? I have the source to a couple major games but would never leak them out

But you're not producing any high-profile games, either.

i don't think you understand.. i used to be a developer at a high-profile game company

I play minesweeper all the time, thanks for the memories!

Wow I wish I worked on the original Minesweeper at Microsoft... I can't imagine all the money I'd have now from all the stock options.
*day-dreaming*

 

[iwearnosox]

Well, if I were to have downloaded this and looked at it before I deleted it, I would say it's absolutely real.

Ugh, so sad, I hope they find who did this.

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Well, if I were to have downloaded this and looked at it before I deleted it, I would say it's absolutely real.

Ugh, so sad, I hope they find who did this.

and cut their balls off, I want to work for a Game Devlopment company someday and if this happened i think i would devote all my time to finding the guy and killing him

 

[nater]

looks like there is already a copy of this out by the release group deviance...

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: nater
looks like there is already a copy of this out by the release group deviance...

It's all over the web. My bet at least a 4 month delay to retool parts of it.

 

[iwearnosox]

This is a coincidence?

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
This is a coincidence?

lol, looks like they just started up yesterday

 

[NFS4]

DAMN, they found him already

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=28619

 

[azncoffeeboi]

Originally posted by: NFS4
DAMN, they found him already

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=28619

lol

 

[kitkit201]

did they find the leaker?

 

[Furor]

Originally posted by: kitkit201
did they find the leaker?

It wasn't leaked, it was stolen..

 

[silverpig]

OMG this is horrible.

Cheaters will prosper like there's no tomorrow.

The only good side I can see is someone doing a linux port real quick...

I'm still gonna pay for it though.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Glitchny
you think another company would be as underhanded to use valves source code, let alone find and download it?

um.... YES!

 

[bernse]

They should get the FBI involved too. Computer hacking, possibly causing millions of dollars of costs (delayed release, loss of tech). The should hunt this prick down hard and throw him in the slammer with Bubba and his HIV infected dick.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: bernse
They should get the FBI involved too. Computer hacking, possibly causing millions of dollars of costs (delayed release, loss of tech). The should hunt this prick down hard and throw him in the slammer with Bubba and his HIV infected dick.

Bubba tested negative, it was a lab error. He thanks you for the hallmarks, though.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
This is a coincidence?

Actually, yes, by the looks of it, their site has existed for at least a few months.

PS I have a hard time believing this would nessisitate jail time; I just don't see it having a very large financial impact(you and I are still going to buy the game, and no reputible company would use the illegal source over that of licenced source)

 

Programmers got owned.

 

[Turkish]

hopefuly they will find who leaked it and let monkeys rape him.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Xiety
hopefuly they will find who leaked it and let monkeys rape him.

That would be cool if monkey rape was a judicial option. I'd pay to see it even!

 

[Thoreau]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
HL3: DurocShark edition coming soon....

I'll take it!

 

[alm4rr]

You can find it in about 2 secs

32 meg in rar, 100 uncompressed...

supposedly its not sdk, but engine code

I would think most people wouldn't want to use STEAM until this is all fig'd out

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Er, why would any company use the purchased code? Spend a million bucks to license a game engine that has cheaters in multi-player out the wazoo? Don't think so.

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: alm4rr
You can find it with about 2 secs worth of reading /.

32 meg in rar, 100 uncompressed...

supposedly its not sdk, but engine code

I would think most people wouldn't want to use STEAM until this is all fig'd out

More like 160 MB (168,598,580 bytes) uncompressed. Very interesting reading this source code.