Half-Life 2 Delayed Following Code Leak

jhol writes "CNN is reporting that Half-Life 2 is delayed "by at least four months, that is to April 2004.", due to the code leak. VU Games has already suffered a 29% fall in revenue and an operating loss of $61.36 million this year. A Christmas release of Half-Life 2 would probably have been most welcomed." Update: 10/07 20:38 GMT by S : CNN Money are now reporting there's a newly public leak, allegedly involving a partially playable, Beta pre-release of the game.

Comments

Likely a change to stop "pirating".

[Thinkit3]

The business model of copy-locking has to go away. They can request donations instead. If cdex, xiph, bittorrent, scorched3d, blender, and others can do it, why not a large production value game? It's a risk, but the donation model can pay off big.

Re:Thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

Hahahaha, now you and the loosers like you will have to actually do something with your (Admitedly worthless) time, instead of spending every waking moment of your lives playing worthless games on your worthless computers with your worthless mates.

In related news SAHLSDOT APERS 2 BE TEH BORKEN!

Well, clearly they should GPL it now.

[Blacklist Blacklist]

What, the fanboys don't want their Precious Games to be Free Software?! Fucking hypocrites.

this is OLD

[Anonymous Coward]

This came out ages ago, lol, what a fucktard whoever submitted this.

Re:Still haven't learned their lessons

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

Do you fail to see the difference between someone dying and a nerd not having a computer game in time for Christmas?

Re:Delayed anyways?

[arivanov]

In other words it is delayed because the entire world has understood how halfbaked it is.

With the code out there any reviewer can do a quick search for the TODO/BUGS and reproduce the condition.

As a result if they release it without fixing them they will get slaughtered.

So IMO:

1. The leak may be deliberate as a publicity stunt which gives them a chance to delay it despite investor pressure.

2. They intended to do as some other game companies have done in the past and ship utter bogus buggy crap.

Dunno which of these is the case. But it is either.

Re:hello, outlook

[Politburo]

No, you would be smug. Don't lump all of us in with your arrogant ass.

Bittorrent of HL2 Beta is right here

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.bittorrentmovies.de/newphp/bits/halflif e2-beta-english-seeded-by-[www.bittorrentmovies.de ]2.rar.torrent

Son of a BITCH

[Geekwad]

WHAT THE FUCK, you cock-smoking little bitches! I'm gonna find where you live and sodomize each of you with a fucking broken JOYSTICK, you little fuckfaces! I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD!!