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I would submit it as a story, but someone else probably has, and I've never had a story accepted yet :)

The NFO was on nforce.nl for a short time, but has since been removed. The leak has been confirmed here, and a few claim to have it (but they could be lying).

I've also seen a screenshot of the folders with all the map files in it, and the names look very much like what one would expect the long gameplay demo to be made from.

Not good news for valve :( I am disappointed that the game had to be delayed - and for all of you who have taken the source or download the beta, I hope you remember your duty to purchase the game when it does come out.

Here is what we know:

1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.

2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.

3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.

4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.

5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).

6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.

Well, this sucks.

What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.

We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.

Gabe Newell

This is Sierra using the MMRPG model for a type of game that has traditionally been supported for free.

Actually, not quite. you've got to click on the original post in the halflife2.net forums to realize that it's not MMORPG style. As Gabe's email (apparently) states: "But nowhere has there been a suggestion that people pay in the store and then pay a monthly fee on top of that a la the MMORPG." (unless there's another message from Gabe past page 1 of the forum)

It sounds to me that it's psuedo subscription (if you want). You pay 9.95 a month, you get all valve software that ever comes out. You buy the game outright 59.95, you get all HL2 content (patches, mods that aren't retail), but nothing new using the source engine.

So assuming Valve releases a new product every 6 months, it's a deal. I'm guessing CS2 might go retail only, so buying it either with a steam subscription or for an additionl 39.95 in the store would be your only option. That'll probably come out soon after release. Then there's the inevitable expansion which should be out within the year. Then there's TF2. So it's not quite MMORPG. More like, subscribe to Valve and get whatever we release.

I'm not sure what happens if you discontinue your steam subscription. If suddenly the game stops working. That would be the real bummer... I know I've put down HL for years and just recently got back into it, and having to re-pay would absolutely suck.

Yeah, someone at HomeLan decided we needed a server. well, now, The Junkyard is hosted on 5 multiple-redundant web servers with a separate MySQL database server. we're sharing some of this with a few other guys, but add to this that we're on a dedicated OC3.... yeah, we don't complain. at all.

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