Where's Half-Life 2 test-demo?? <Sept 30>

[Fevriul]

Ithink the reason its late is that someone broke into their system and stole the HL2 source code. It means that they will probably be in the process of trying to clean their system at the moment.

By the way to anyone who belives this is fals, I just downloaded the source code from the newsgroups.

[ryandinan]

Well then you should probably delete it, as Gabe is on a crusade to stop this sh!t.
I understand that you probably have no intent to do anything with this code - but that's another reason why you shouldn't have it in the first place.
Be cool, and get rid of it.

This kind of thing just makes me sick - I just dont understand how some people (not you - the guy(s) who did this) could have such disrespect... And thanks to them, this game will get delayed further, as Valve will have to alter their source code to prevent as much hackery as possible....
It just sucks...


-Ryan

[Fevriul]

From the story on the Inq, it looks like someone opend an outlook email that had a keylogger program attached to it, the rest was history.

From a cursory look at the code this is the full source minus the artwork etc, 5 years of secrets down the drain for valve, plus licence revenu that they may have gotten.

[Plok]

Here's the key quote:

"We held back talking about our release date going into September 30 because I wanted to have a much clearer idea of what day we were going to ship on."

In other words, they knew they weren't going to make September 30. Vivendi was right and Valve's damage control was dishonest and unprofessional.

[Fevriul]

Damn right, teach them a lesson by not buying it when its released.