Screw Hackers!! Half-Life 2 Delayed Until April 2004

[BaboonGuy]

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/07/technology/vivendi_code.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

This **OFFICIALLY** Sucks.

"A third of the source code was stolen," VU Games president of international operations Christophe Ramboz told daily Les Echos in its Tuesday edition. "It's serious because it forces us to delay the launch of the game by at least four months, that is to April 2004. Just the time to rewrite parts of the game."

 

[ndee]

stupid valve.

 

[Schadenfroh]

h4x0R>j00

 

[bunker]

stupid reposts:

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[StageLeft]

I can't imagine why they'd have to rewrite parts of the game, just because it's leaked. What does it matter?

 

[DumbGuy]

bs.

They just needed a new excuse to delay the game.

 

[slag]

They make it sound like there was only 1 disc that all their code was on and it got stolen or something.

lol. I'm sure they had backups and backups of backups, etc.

As posted earlier, its just an excuse since they weren't ready.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: DumbGuy
bs.

They just needed a new excuse to delay the game.

Yep.

 

[y2kc]

more time to upgrade my (old as hell) machine...woohoo! 9800 Pro should be reasonably priced by then.

great news.

 

[MegaloManiaK]

Originally posted by: DumbGuy
bs.

They just needed a new excuse to delay the game.

Yup,


Ooooh, it was the hackers thats why it didn't come out on time, right.

Am i the only one who has totaly lost interest in HL2 at this point?

 

[Regs]

By then I'll need to make another upgrade. Actually, I'll want to make another upgrade.

Screw this game, got cought up in all the hype, would of likely never liked it any how.

 

[ndee]

Stupid HL2. If they would only be honest.

 

[mflacy]

That Cnn article is incorrect. Gabe said in yesterday's radio interview that the portion of the source code that was stolen was small and the game is still on track for a holiday release.

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: mflacy
That Cnn article is incorrect. Gabe said in yesterday's radio interview that the portion of the source code that was stolen was small and the game is still on track for a holiday release.

Hmm...the CNN article says it spoke to a company executive. Has there been any confirmation on whether it will be delayed yet again or not? If it is, that would extremely suck, and make you wonder if this game will EVER get out the door.

 

That's lame. I smell a Valve conspiracy to coverup the stink that is Steam.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: mflacy
That Cnn article is incorrect. Gabe said in yesterday's radio interview that the portion of the source code that was stolen was small and the game is still on track for a holiday release.

Hmm...the CNN article says it spoke to a company executive. Has there been any confirmation on whether it will be delayed yet again or not? If it is, that would extremely suck, and make you wonder if this game will EVER get out the door.

What the hell? Gabe is one of VALVe's owners and original founders. Executives of what company? Vivendi?

*Public service announcement*

VALVe is funding and developing the game themselves. They control when the game is released - not Vivendi.

 

[mflacy]

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: mflacy
That Cnn article is incorrect. Gabe said in yesterday's radio interview that the portion of the source code that was stolen was small and the game is still on track for a holiday release.

Hmm...the CNN article says it spoke to a company executive. Has there been any confirmation on whether it will be delayed yet again or not? If it is, that would extremely suck, and make you wonder if this game will EVER get out the door.

Let me be more exact.

The CNN article MISQUOTED the VU rep. He actually said "there is the potential for Half-Life 2 to be pushed back as far as April 2004"

First hand knowledge, Gabe's interview yesterday, is more accurate than the VU rep.

 

Damn this sucks!

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Who cares at this point? I'm so freaking sick of hearing about this game that I could care less.

 

[Anubis]

HL2 is slowley becomming DNF

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Who cares at this point? I'm so freaking sick of hearing about this game that I could care less.

Likewise. If you download the source code, I bet it isn't even close to being production ready yet. They are just needing a scapegoat to have a reason for delaying the game.

 

[draggoon01]

Originally posted by: mflacy

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: mflacy
That Cnn article is incorrect. Gabe said in yesterday's radio interview that the portion of the source code that was stolen was small and the game is still on track for a holiday release.

Hmm...the CNN article says it spoke to a company executive. Has there been any confirmation on whether it will be delayed yet again or not? If it is, that would extremely suck, and make you wonder if this game will EVER get out the door.

Let me be more exact.

The CNN article MISQUOTED the VU rep. He actually said "there is the potential for Half-Life 2 to be pushed back as far as April 2004"

First hand knowledge, Gabe's interview yesterday, is more accurate than the VU rep.

gabe, the same guy who lied up to the last minute about making the release date of 30th. the game may be great (if we ever get our hands on it), but they're lying and marketing sucks.

 

[XZeroII]

What kind of crappy company doesn't do regular backups? They are lying.

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I can't imagine why they'd have to rewrite parts of the game, just because it's leaked. What does it matter?

Right now, with the source code, people can write all kinds of cheat programs for it. So instead of the couple years of more or less cheat free gaming like we had with HL, the cheats are available right from the get go. Making multiplayer blow.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: draggoon01

Originally posted by: mflacy

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: mflacy
That Cnn article is incorrect. Gabe said in yesterday's radio interview that the portion of the source code that was stolen was small and the game is still on track for a holiday release.

Hmm...the CNN article says it spoke to a company executive. Has there been any confirmation on whether it will be delayed yet again or not? If it is, that would extremely suck, and make you wonder if this game will EVER get out the door.

Let me be more exact.

The CNN article MISQUOTED the VU rep. He actually said "there is the potential for Half-Life 2 to be pushed back as far as April 2004"

First hand knowledge, Gabe's interview yesterday, is more accurate than the VU rep.

gabe, the same guy who lied up to the last minute about making the release date of 30th. the game may be great (if we ever get our hands on it), but they're lying and marketing sucks.

Up to the last minute? I remember interviews with Ken Birdwell and Gabe Newell at ETCS this year around August 29 saying the release date is still scheduled for Sep 30. Did anybody hear anything from them between this date and Sep 22-ish where they officially delayed the game? I certainly didn't.

Did it ever occur to you that around this time is when the source code was stolen? Think that might have something to do with the delay? Of course not, this is all a publicity stunt! VALVe purposely released 4+ years of code to the internet for everybody to download just so that they could delay an almost completed game.