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No Half-Life 2 on Steam?
Karl the Pagan writes "Following on the heels of a previous Steam-related story, Vivendi Universal may block Half-Life 2 distribution via Steam. Additional motions can be filed until November 18th, but since Sierra/VU have final QA approval on the HL2 gold is it possible they could delay the game until after the court decides on these motions?"
Half Life 2 - September 30, 2005
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but if they do delay it, here's the upside.. the first motion may take a month to process, but the next motion will only be 2 weeks, then 1 week on the third, and so on.. it's only a matter of time.
heh
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Ok since Half Life 2 seems to be soon enough (sooner than last year anyway!), how about Team Fortress 2! Only vapoware more vaporish than that is DNF.
They might as well describe the Half-Life 2 release delays in terms of uranium 238s half-life.
Somewhere, Duke Nukem is cheering, now that he's no longer the standard of perpetually pushed back release dates.
This is a nice gesture to all those dial-up users who spent weeks doing the HL2 preloads..
It probably would have taken less development time if they'd used coal or oil.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Shit! You mean some of those guys are still alive?!
I don't play on LANs nor do I go to Quakcon. I play at home, on my PC. I don't care if it activates, I'm online all the time anyway. And I don't care about Valve having my credit card number, anymore than I care about sending it to ebgames.com.
Just think of all the script-kiddy wanna-be "hackers" that directed attention at HL2 when it was delayed. Can you really blame them for having their MS software exploited? That's like hanging a piece of steak from your crotch and running into a dog kennel with the cages open.
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
At this point, I doubt many people care how Half Life 2 gets to them, just so long as it actually arrives.
I personally recommend a few hundred rar files (and one or two with checksum errors of course) on a few hundred floppies.
Don't tell SCO, but I suspect some lines of Halflife 2 code may match theirs.
I saw an endif and a return near each other in the leaked version.
The latest release schedule....
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Doom V
Duke Nukem Forever
Half Life 2
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
... for not doing a Mac port.
Yes, God is a Mac Gamer. And He is pissed.
Maybe I'll check it out.
We know that Valve must be in the wrong here. After all, Vivendi has a long history of keeping the developer's/creative's best interests in mind. Anyone remember Vivendi's excellent (and forward-thinking) handling of mp3.com? (VU sold the domain, but not the music itself, to CNet, presumably for One Hundred Billion Dollars, as well as some sexual favors and two FREE Igia nail clippers.)
I mean, who wanted all those free MP3s anyway? Most of them were made by artists who would never sell albums anyway! VU was actually being polite, by helping those musicians who never would have 'made it' to get a real job, like making the Fajita Sandwich Wrap Melts that Vivendi executives get at Wendys.
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It would, however, go over well with the accountants.