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Originally posted by BountyWarrior
[B. Like I have been saying to Rincewind for a while now, the game was only ever going to make a 30th September release if DOOM 3 stayed on schedule for an October/November release. Its pretty obvious that that date was only ever announced so they could trump id Software at retail. Obviously id Software delayed that title, DOOM 3, for whatever reason. This then took the pressure of Valve to release the game for the mentioned date. Which lead to the initial delay.[/b]
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That sounds plausible.
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Of course, with Valve maybe relising we should actually put some gameplay into the game, they decided to take the 'drastic' measure of leaking the code so they could delay the game further. The codes useless to everyone, unless your a fanboy.
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Whoa there, cowboy ! There's a famous saying that goes like "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity". Let's face it, a full third of their source code is out in the open. This would be a huge catastrophy for any developer, especially since Valve is developing so much new technologies, there are more than enough unscrupulous copycat developers that will rip whatever they can to upgrade their own sh*tty games for free. What happened to Valve was a combination of plain stupidity and the fact that perfect network security is hard to maintain. Still, this leak will costs them thousands upon thousands, maybe hundred thousands of dollars. No f*cking way they did the leak themselves, that would be commercial suicide. Did a disgruntled employee do it ? That's a lot more likely but Valve as a company is really damaged by all this.
As for the delay, ofcourse they're going to delay, since the source also contains multiplayer code and code specific to steam. Right now, cheat developers are busy studying the code to be prepared when the game comes out. At the very least they'll have to significantly alter the anti cheat code in Steam. Halflife 2 itself is long finished according to insider sources, but this leak is the sole reason why they delay. The delay still sucks ofcourse, but in this case it's not really Valve's fault, after all the same thing (source code of Windows stolen) happened to Microsoft too.