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?"

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Duke Nukem is happy

[MagicDude]

Somewhere, Duke Nukem is cheering, now that he's no longer the standard of perpetually pushed back release dates.

Don't tell SCO...

[Kaenneth]

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.

Vivendi Universal

[Zenmonkeycat]

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.