Half Life 2 Delayed Until Next Year

Site Admin Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 0

It looks like Half Life 2 is going to be delayed until April 2004 if not even later. It is being delayed because some of the source code was stolen and they need time to rewrite parts of the game. It was being told by Vivendi Universal Games and some people are saying that they don´t belive it until Valve confirms it but I have to say that it doesn´t look good (remember when Vivendi told people that HL2 was being delayed and Valve said it wasn´t being delayed). If Half Life 2 really is being delayed then I guess ATI is being pretty upset since they paid alot of money to get their new 9800 XT bundled with Half Life 2. You can find one of many articles about the delay here.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:42 pm

Glad I bought a 19" monitor instead of a 9800 pro now. With HL2 delayed I see no reason to rush out and spend 400 on a top of the line DX9 card.

UO Noob Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 41 Location: Portugal

Valve says there's no delay. They will issue an official statemente in a couple of days.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:09 pm

Not only is it delayed, as I stated in the other post, a playable version is now available on various sources.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:15 pm

where is this playable version?

UO Staff Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 129 Location: UK

The playable version is the result of various parts of the stolen content thrown together and hacked about with. It’s not a genuine build, and should be avoided like SARS. And no, I don’t know where to get it or where it came from, but I would imagine the usual BitTorrent sources will have got hold of it by now.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:35 pm

ok i was under the impression that it was a demo that they released

UO Staff Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 129 Location: UK

Ah. Not quite. Wink

UO Staff Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 190 Location: BoooooM

Where did you hear this ? All I herd was (halflife2.net) that Valve didn´t want to make a any comment until later.

-dp-

UO Noob Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 41 Location: Portugal

The Inquirer Razz

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:11 am

that's a lot of proof Smile

but i dont see any quote straight from valve. but it's pretty damn close Smile

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:46 pm

did anyone see the second source leak and the entire game content leak? Sad

Pretty much the entire source code is available and compilable as well as pretty much all of the content for the game. Evil or Very Mad

Irix WAnnabe Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 122

I think people expect instant answers from Valve, but of course it doesn't work like that. They have to think thru the implications of what has been leaked. It can take time to figure out what the right thing to do is.

Much better they keep quiet for a bit and come up with a sensible plan, rather than spitting out the first thing that comes into Gabes head.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:15 pm

ok I don't know if it was here or somewhere else.

But the code was not leaked it was stolen.

Someone that works for Valve or an associated company that has rights to see the software and such that lets it out is a leak. Someone hacking into them and downloading it all is called theft.